hotel outskirts of milan train station across the road breakfast not to bad cooked breakfast on request dont bother its scrambled egg (not eatable) staff friendly except manager he was nice enough but dont go there for a stagg/hen wkend if crowd in hotel they shut the bar sun terrace on 1st floor holds about 15 seats bad outlook no smoking in rooms if you do theres a 30 euro fine 1 pub/restaurant 5 mins away (platz) nice place cheap meals /drink ,music some nights night club 5mins away latin american didnt feel safe there 10 euros admission which was reduced when we said we werent coming in to 5 euros maid service great staff helpful .boss when sitting having a drink on the terrace was always checking floors no bad hotel but need transport to get to night life shops ect, 1 chip shop across the road in milan town centre plenty pubs vodka coke expect to pay big bucks for it . platzs nice meal cheap drink friendly staff. rooms. cleaned every day clean towels friendly maid service. we were on a hen weekend needed to go into town 15 mins taxi to get night life, was going to go to theme parks taxi cost 200 euros each way markets 5 ins on train crap markets unless your after a fake bag no uk fags in milan none at duty free but there is a book shop in airport before you go through customs that sell regal ect fags 41 euros (£28) no smirnoff vodka either wouldnt go back but if your after a budget break away and willing to travel its okaywouldnt recommend for adult wkends we sat in hotel 5 ladies got served okay ebglish stag guys (8guys) came in and they shut the bar at 11 30pm guys were having a laugh but were not rowdy milan centre nice pubs eating places

Main points:

it has a lift which, having travelled around Italian 3-star hotels for a month, is not a given.

The desk staff speak generally good English.

There is internet access on a sliding cost scale (up to 6 hours for 8 euros) with cabled ASDL access in the rooms or wireless in the foyer - but only if you have a laptop.

There's a decent verandah for sunny days.

Certain rooms have a lot of street noise, others at the back less so.

The bedrooms are very clean and some have baths with a shower attachment rather than just a stand-up shower (room 108, for example).

TV offers the range of Sky Italia fare for free (including movies in Engish).


Breakfast was a buffet, decent enough range but have had better at this level.

Overall, a good bet for the city and opposite a train station serving the centre directly.

Some limited car parking inside and on the street.

Hotel was in an ideal location to get into centre of Milan and surrounding area's, was right on top of Buses and Train Station, which the service's were excellent. The Hotel Staff where friendly and very helpful with all our questions, where able to book different excursions, and did detailed map of finding our way around.

Overall very happy with our stay at Valganna, would definately recommend this to our friends and family as it was very reasonable and the Breakfast was good.

We were dissapointed by the area around this hotel. It did not seem very safe. We were surprised by the rooms, although dated in style they were large and clean. The breakfasts were really fabulous, especially for Italy. They were probably the best we've had in 3 vacations to Italy. That said, this is definately a budget hotel. It was worth the 75 Euro we paid for it, but the location was very poor.