Location, location, location! Francesco's apartment is perfectly located. We walked to everything. Via Dante is steps away and is a pedestrian street with lots of restaurants. Every morning we bought croissants for only one euro each. The only place we needed the metro was to go to the canal district and the metro stop is right by his apartment. We are in our late 60s and decided to sleep on the downstairs sofa bed instead of the upstairs loft. The sofa bed was fine, much better than the one we have at home. Nothing wrong with the loft but you do need to watch the headroom and we decided to sleep downstairs. Francesco was a gracious and friendly host. We would definitely stay here again if we came back to Milan.