Raphael De L.
Google
This review is directed to international people who is looking for a place to stay when attending events at Malpensa Fiere.
The reason why I decided to stay at this hotel was because it seemed to be close enough to Malpensa Fiere e by the photographs and reviews, seemed like a good hotel to stay at.
However, I have stayed in around 15 hotels this year and this one has given me the worst experience so far.
To be fair, let me list the positive things:
- Friendly staff
- Hot and good shower
- Comfortable bed
- Airconditioned worked (while in the room)
I’m not the kind of person that checks under the bed, but the room seemed clean enough.
Now, the room I was given wasn’t in the main building, it’s in another building in front of the hotel. This already gives me the atmosphere that I’m not welcome in the actual place.
Anyway, after crossing the parking lot and getting into my room, I find out the room is extremely dark. There are only four lamps in the room: one by each side of the bed, one study lamp, and one floor lamp that barely lights anything.
Yes, the room is spacious, but it’s useless space. The room has two uncomfortable armchairs, a hanger, a bed, a desk and a chair.
On the corner there’s a frigobar with a safe on top of it. It’s not cozy at all. Add this to the darkness and it gets worse. It’s depressing.
To make the experience even worse, the frigobar makes a loud metallic noise every hour or so. It’s not the regular contraction noise, it’s as if someone was slapping the damn thing. Woke me up the whole night. Besides, no complimentary water in the room.
I told reception about it, they said they would leave a note to the technician, but naturally nothing was done about it. When searching through the reviews here on Google I saw that someone else complained about the same noise 2 years ago. I was in room 012.
When asked at the reception if all rooms were as dark and complaining about the noises I asked about the possibility of switching rooms but according to them they were fully booked. My refugee was spending most of the time at the lobby of the hotel where there was light enough to work.
The gym was nice enough, but apparently, even though I simply walked in, you need a reservation to use it. No towels or water at the gym.
Now, if you think you can simply walk to the convention center, forget about it. Even though you can, there’s no sidewalks and through parts you actually walk on the freeways where people drive like lunatics. I did the walk on the first day but on the others I took a taxi because it wasn’t safe. Taxi costs around 20 euros each way.
There’s also nothing to do around and in the hotel. There’s a McDonalds 300 meters away you can get at by walking on the street. And that’s it. You’re isolated in a dark and depressing room.
I had three nights booked, but I left on the second and went to another hotel because I couldn’t take it anymore. Depressed during the day and couldn’t sleep at night due to the noises. I was speaking at the conference and the hotel didn’t help me rest for it.
To wrap up, I paid for breakfast the first day and regretted it. Not a lot of variety, scrambled eggs were too well done and soaked in oil. Even hotels in London had better breakfast. Coffee was from automatic machines. I didn’t even try the restaurant for dinner because I was afraid the food was going to be equally bad.
From the reviews, it feels like people think the hotel is good for families and people with cars. It’s definitely not worth it for people without cars that are there for business. Rather I’d stay in the center of Busto Arsizio and take a taxi from there to the venue or even stay in Milano and take the train everyday.
Hope this helps someone else think of staying here for going to Malpense Fiere.
