Extremely dirty, unfriendly service, toilet too far away and no privacy in the toilet, not to be recommended. 0n top of that the passages towards the rooms are so narrow that its not possible to walk thro' especially when one has a big lugggage bag. And the toilets with its glass door and without any locks that anyone can just barge in while its occupied. There is simply no privacy at all while someone is in the toilet. Don't the Italiens know that toilet duties is something very privat? And the beddings looks so uninviting, simply horrible. Never have I in all my travels encounter such conditions; it would be much better getting a room in the hostels, they are much better.

First of all, I visit Milan every year for bussiness purposes due to the exhibitions that take place there. I usually have a couple of hotels that stay, but at that period were all full, and the only one available was Margherita, so I had to stay there.

In the reception was an old lady who could barely hear and see, but other than that she seemed a good person. But not ideal for that place. After spending 10 minutes clarifying who I was, I was told to use the lift and go to the second floor. The lift could barely fit me and my luggage, but I didn't actually find it very important.
Then I saw the door to my single bed room. It was extremely old and uncared, and I could get in with difficulty carrying my suitcase since it was a very small door.

The windows were rusty and the wallpaper was teared in places. I really wouldn't mind that, given that I was there for bussiness and I just needed a place to sleep. BUT what I did mind was the fact that the room was dirty, kind of neglecte, as if they weren't expecting any guest. But it is a hotel, right?
The bathroom was also under the same conditions an worse, and I really had difficulties in the shower since I am an 1,95cm medium built guy, so I needed some extra room there.

What I hated the most though, was the feeling of insecurity in that hotel, which is something I have never experienced in my many stays in the city of Milan. I know that the Central Station isn't supposed to be the highest class area, and I can live with that since it's functional for transportation, BUT I was inclined to put a plastic chair (yes, a plastic chair was IN the room for sitting on the desk which reminded of a garden table) beside the door for extra security reasons, since the room's wooden door was leaving a 1cm vertical opening on its connection. Basically I could just punch a medium force punch and it would break.

I HAD to stay there for 3 nights which were my worst nights ever when abroad, since my travel agent had prepaid for my stay. I had payed around 250 euros for my three night stay there (high season due to the exhibitions), when in my opinion I shouldn't have paid more than 50 euros with the breakfast (that was actually a coffee with two slices of bread and marmalade) included.
Highlights: The stains on the wall which I couldn't understand their origins.
The second night when a group of adult men where having a huge fight in the next room and no one seemed to care.

After reading reviews on here I was pretty dubious about booking this hotel, but at the end of the day I was after something as cheap as possible and as near to the City centre as possible.....hence the Margherita.

As suggested the hotel is located within a couple of streets of the main rail station (Centrale F.S.) approx. 5 minute walk. We got the shuttle bus from Linate airport (only 5euros) which dropped us at the station. We jumped in a taxi to Margherita and after showing the driver the address written down (my Italian is non-existent!) he found it with no problems.
On arriving, the hotel is small and cute looking from the outside. Its located down a small street with not much else on it - supermarket opposite. We checked in and the lady on the desk (I presume the grandaughter of what I understand to be a family run hotel) was very helpful, cheery and polite, speaking very good English.

We got in the lift up to our room which is supposed to hold 3 people. My wardrobe at home is bigger and the lift could barely fit our case in it. After finding this hilarious and struggling up to the second floor we found our room no.29.

The lightswitch for the whole room is on the outside of the door (can also be turned off from inside but slighly strange) and the door has a keyhole lock so unless you leave your key in the door over night anyone can open it.
The room was tiny and not cleaned well. There were specks of mud all over the floor but the bed was made and well presented.
The bathroom (if you can call it that) was again a large cupboard, not much bigger than the lift. The shower, which is wet room style (i.e. no shower curtain, door, just a drain) wasn't too much of a problem and drained pretty well. However our towels were not changed everyday, only if we purposely left them in the middle of the floor wringing wet. Most disturbingly....there were little bugs crawling on the bathroom floor at all times and we found 2 cockroaches during out 3 night stay!!!!

We didn't try breakfast which is served 8-10am so I cant comment but we didn't want to risk seeing anymore bugs.

This hotel is in a good location for the Train Station, Metro Station (Line 1), Trams and Airport transfer. It would take a good 40mins to walk into the centre of the city, by Duomo so you need to really use public transport. Other than that and the friendly staff, I do not have anything good to say about this hotel. I would not recommend it or advise staying there. We felt unsafe walking around the area after dark, gangs of Italian men hang around each street corner and outside shops. I know I only paid for a budge hotel £33 per night but I still don't expect cockroaches!!

I can't belive what kind of reviews are you writing.Margherita is not a horribble hotel and is not like some of the people are saying.We stayed with my friend there and we are more than happy to be thereYes is a old hotel but very clean and very hapefull stuff.The girl at the recieption is so nice and hapefull.Low price and good location.
Some people are so evil somtimes.
Margherita forever.
Emilly