Overall we had a good time at Guidos, and I think this would be a fantastic stay if a few changes were made.
Pros:
-excellent location. You’re seriously 5-10 minutes casual walk from the main sights of Milan: Starbucks refinery (only 3 in the world, GO), Duomo/galleria, and the castle/Park which is next to the arches as well. Seriously, this is a fantastic spot.
-VERY clean.
-VERY SAFE: you have to go through like 3 different hoops to get in and it’s in a building with someone watching the front door.
Cons:
- the WiFi. Well, it’s not WiFi it’s a hotspot. So the speed was less than ONE MB/sec (it was 750ish kbps) which other WiFi’s in Italy are at least 1-2 mbps. If you’re from a place where you’re used to at least MB’s per sec this is excruciatingly painful. I mean I’m not exaggerating that I couldn’t load most apps or even download emails.
-small - I mean this is in Milan, a big city, so maybe to be expected. But the shower was too small even for one normal sized person. So don’t expect a lot of space for anything. I mean, it had a Murphy bed (uncomfortable one at that) so that’s how small we’re talking.
- certain details. There were no hooks to put your towels so we had to find different ways to dry the towels since there were only two. There were linens but very little of them, fortunately my bf runs hot so we didn’t need it but still.
- AC - there is one but no matter how low we turned it, it never got very cold. The air always blew out room temp.
- check in: when we got a bit delayed on the train, the host had a friend check us in instead. And the woman who helped us was VERY sweet, but obviously it’s not quite the same experience so some details were missed, or small questions that couldn’t be answered because she isn’t managing it. Also, I don’t know if the signal in the area is bad but maps had a hard time finding this place (for both us and the lady who checked us in).
So it all comes down to your travel priorities and this is overall a decently good spot to stay in just missing some details.