The location
The location is perfect in the center of the busy Milan just a few blocks to the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuelle. Just a few steps away from the building there are tons of clothing stores, restaurants. A few blocks away there is a supermarket for your general needs; however, do not get to excited since the apartment itself is not Conducive to a great experience.
The apartment.
The layout is not efficient and it works if you are only two people. The distribution is very bad and the pictures are really deceiving since they look much better than what you really get.
As you open the front door you immediately have the only bed 18” from the front door. As you proceed you have the living area with a pseudo sofa bed and the bathroom right in front of it.
To the right of the front door thru a tiny hallway there is the dining table and 3 chairs in a tiny cove space that looks amazing in the pictures but it is not true. Continue down the tiny hallway and you find a very dated, mismatch half as put together hallway kitchen. The 8’ kitchen counter top has 3 different finishes all scraps from different projects. The sink is very ackwardly located and there are barely any counter space and or amenities.
The iron board has a loose cover that keeps falling while you Iron.
The A/C is only a cooling fan it will not make the space cold. You can only feel it in the living room.
The beds are tough and Very hard to sleep on; it is an Ikea frame and a 5” foam mattress on top. The pillows are flat as a pancake. They worked for me but not for my husband. The bed is open to the entire unit so there is no privacy at all.
The pseudo sleep sofa is just a couch with a pull up base that is very hard to sleep on, but you can use the back pillows as sleeping pillows in the bed.
There is no space to place your luggage other than on the floor. There are no drawers anywhere and the bed only has 1 tiny wire table as a nightstand. They do have full mirror for your convenience.
The shower is roughly a 24” x 24” cabin with no place to put a soap, shampoo or any other item you might need while showering. Even a small size person has a very hard time taking a shower in that space. The shower is so small you hit the elbows on the walls when you shampoo your hair. It is so tiny that you can not bend down to pick up the shampoo bottle from the floor.
The Kitchen
There is no modern coffee machine available
You have to make coffee in the old style manual coffee maker and deal with cooking in a wobbling plate for a modern induction cooktop. Since the old coffee machine would not work on the new cooktop.
On a positive note, there is a kind lady that greets you through the apartment as you check in, and there are two elevators.