Hi.
If you are planning a trip to the Italian GP at Monza. Then you can do allot worse than the Lambardia Hotel. Especially if you are on a budget. This is a cheap and cheerful hotel. It will take you approx 1 and a half hours to get to the circuit from the hotel.( I will come back to that later).
The Hotel is as I say basic. Rooms are clean the beds made every day, with a TV, which you can change the language to some channels. The Towels are no more than large Tea Towels, But there get the job done.
The Staff speak some English and are very helpful.
The buffet breakfast is OK as much as you can eat. Cereals quasons cakes ham rolls, Coffee and fruit juices.
Close by the hotel is a few very good small restaurants . The “Mulan rouge” Right out of the hotel ,on the next corner.
A small restaurant (name I don’t remember) Left out of the hotel about 150 yds away. Sit outside and watch some sport. The pizzas and Calzones are very good and not too expensive. As they are in the centre of Milan, (Very expensive) 1 lire of beer can cost 15 Euros!!!!
My son and I went for the 1st time this year and had a great time.
To get to the circuit from the Lambardia is not too bad. Just Give your self plent of time to get there so you dont miss anything.
1. Turn left out of the hotel, stop at the cake and pizza shop 120 yds down the road to buy you Lunch and water (as it’s Very Expensive at the circuit.). Turn right at the next junction. And walk to the large roundabout, where you get on to the Metro underground train. This called the LORETO STATION. This takes about 10 minutes.
2. Buy a 6 day travel pass on the underground its cheaper it allows you 2x trips per day for 6 days approx 10 Euros. Take the Green Line to GARIDALDI STATION (4 STOPS).
3. Leave the underground and head for the Train station. Just outside, you can’t miss it.
4. Buy a return ticket to the BASSONO PARCO (LESOM Station). This station is just outside the Lesmo entrance of the circuit. After leaving the station. Follow the path on the LEFT and keep walking up a small hill. You will see the entrance in front of you.
5. The Only Change to this is on the Sunday RACE DAY. When there are Free trains to the circuit from CENTRAL STATION This is only 2 stops away from your metro station LORETO on the RED LINE.
6. Don’t be tempted to get off at Monza station and get the free bus to the circuit, as you still have a 35 minute walk when you get off the bus from where it drops you. And on race day the queues are endless for the buses.

The weather was very hot. So take plenty of water and a blowup cushion to sit on, as the stands are very uncomfortable when you are sitting for a long time.
We booked through Expedia, and if you have a free day in Milan I recommend the museum at the San Siro stadium. Also DUOMO center posh shops etc.
One other thing don’t get caught out at the airport when you land. Some taxi drivers stepped up to us and offered us a lift to the Lambardia Hotel a fixed price he said, showing us a notice on the desk 60 Euros. We were tied and it was late. We took it. We should have gone outside and got one off the rank.
On the way back to the airport the hotel rang a taxi for us and he only charged 18 Euros.

Have a Great trip.
Paul

I do not recommend this hotel for 4 reasons:

1. closet-like rooms
2. rude staff
3. location that raises safety concerns.
4. tiny shower boxes, ridiculous towels (waffle-like)

1.
The hotel uses the internet to sell rooms that nobody would take if they can inspect rooms before they book them.

When I got to the room I got extremely upset.
It is the size of a closet. The bed is literally right next to the door.
My head was right next to the hallway wall so anybody who passes by, their steps and suitcases produce a lot of noise because the floors are not carpeted.
If I turned so my feet were next to that wall instead of my head, then I was not be able to watch tv.

Someone kept going back and forth in boots in the next room in the
middle of the night, and it was very loud (the floors are not carpeted in rooms).
There are no rooms this small in the US and normally in the US there is a foyer and a bathroom that distances guests from hallway noises so it is hard to imagine the level of inconvenience unless you experience it yourself.

2. The receptionists have poor customer service skills.
One could not communicate in English satisfactorily. I had to search
my memory for Italian words.
Another was exceptionally bad, his name is Kris Macamah.
Here is a story that I do not want anybody to relive.

The first few days are very hard for Americans. When it's 9am in Milan, it's 3am on the East Coast.
Most Americans need sleep till noon the first couple of days.
So there I was, asleep at around 11am Italian time. My head is right next to the hallway wall. The next room door is right next to my door
at a right angle. I put a do not disturb sign on the door hoping people
would be considerate.
The cleaning lady comes, ignores the sign and starts some noisy cleaning machine in the neighboring room WITHOUT EVEN CLOSING THAT ROOM's DOOR.

Of course, I woke up and after a few minutes of that noisy torture, I asked her to close that door. She did not understand English.
When I explained the situation to the receptionist on the phone, he did not apologize for the inconvenience! and gave me the most stupid reason on earth why that door cannot be closed.

You will never guess the reason...

He said the neighboring door cannot be closed because when she washes the floor, the air must come into the room for the water to dry!!!

I was always under the impression that water dries by itself whether you have the door open or not, especially in Italy, a warm country.

Later, when I was downstairs, I asked the receptionist what his name
was. He proceeded again with his idiotic explanation why the door
could not be closed.
When I said that he should start by apologizing for the inconvenience
and only then explain why something is the way it is, he was rude. He
kept interrupting me. His customer service skills were non-existent.

HE NEVER APOLOGIZED FOR THE INCONVENIENCE. NOT ONCE.

3. The area is not good - even though the train station is within a 20 minutes' walk, when it is dark, you definitely need a taxi.

4. I am not an overweight woman, yet it was not pleasant to shower because the shower is literally inside a cylinder-like space and there is no way to expand it so you constantly touch the box walls. When the body is wet, it is not a pleasant sensation.

The internet did not work when I arrived.
The do not disturb sign was not in the room.
No good views from any of the rooms.

A basic hotel offering decent value for money, but the rooms need to be updated. The single rooms are especially small.

The hotel seem to give tablecloths and napkins instead of towels, which I found very strange!

The front desk guys were great, having my key ready each time I came in before I could even tell them my room number.

Used the Hotel Lombardia as a base for going to the Italian Grand Prix in Monza.

Situated a couple of miles NE of the city centre near the Loreto subway stop (5-10mins walk from the hotel).

Rooms were basic but adequate. Service was ok with most staff being able to communicate in English.

Would not recommend for a romantic getaway but as a cheap bed for a couple of nights - perfectly fine.