Hotels we recommend
Where to stay in Milan
Two hotels in Milan we would book for a client, in Centrale and Brera. Every one books through a partner programme, which adds an upgrade where one is free, daily breakfast for two, a hotel credit and late checkout, at the hotel's own rate.
- Hotels
- 2
- With partner perks
- 2
- Newest
- 2024
The hotels
Centrale
Excelsior Hotel Gallia, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan
1932 · 235 rooms · Renovated 2015
Excelsior Hotel Gallia is a 235-room hotel on the western edge of Piazza Duca d'Aosta, beside Milano Centrale station, in an Art Deco-era building that opened in 1932. A steel-and-glass tower by Marco Piva has been added to the original building, and the 1,000-square-metre Katara Royal Suite takes the top floor.
Marriott STARS
Brera
Casa Brera, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan
2024 · 116 rooms
Casa Brera is a hotel of 101 rooms and 15 suites on the pedestrian Piazzetta Bossi, a few steps from La Scala and Brera, in a 1950s Rationalist building by Pietro Lingeri. Patricia Urquiola restored it inside with walnut, Italian marbles and Cassina and Poliform furniture, and the eighth-floor roof has a restaurant, sky bar and outdoor pool.
Marriott STARS
On our list
Hotels in Milan we rate but have not yet stayed in, drawn hollow on the map. The hotels above are first-hand; these are where we are going next. We book them as we book the rest.
Brera
Two MICHELIN Keys and Forbes Five-Star; on our list for four eighteenth-century buildings a walk from La Scala.
Four eighteenth-century buildings joined on Via Andegari, a short walk from La Scala.
Quadrilatero della Moda
Two MICHELIN Keys and No. 39 on the World's 50 Best; on our list for Michele De Lucchi's 1564 seminary with a new piazza.
Europe's oldest seminary, from 1564, restored by Michele De Lucchi with a new public piazza off Corso Venezia.
Brera
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for an eighteenth-century palazzo by the Brera botanical garden.
The first Bulgari hotel, opened in 2004 in an eighteenth-century palazzo on a private lane, with a 4,000-square-metre garden by the Brera botanical garden.
Quadrilatero della Moda
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for a fifteenth-century convent cloister on Via Gesù.
A fifteenth-century convent on Via Gesù with its Renaissance cloister and frescoes; the brand's first hotel in continental Europe, in 1993.
Via Manzoni
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for the hotel where Verdi lived and died.
Open on Via Manzoni since 1863; Verdi lived in a suite here from 1872 and died here in 1901.
Quadrilatero della Moda
The Carlton, a Rocco Forte Hotel
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for the €60m rebuild off Via della Spiga.
Rocco Forte's second Milan hotel, opened in November 2025 between Via Senato and Via della Spiga after a €60m rebuild.
What to know
Excelsior Hotel Gallia, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan and Casa Brera, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan. Each has its own page with the rooms, the restaurants and what booking through us adds.
Of the hotels we recommend, Casa Brera, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan, which opened in 2024. Excelsior Hotel Gallia, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan followed in 1932.
Excelsior Hotel Gallia, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan: its rooms start at 26 square metres. Casa Brera, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan from 24.
Excelsior Hotel Gallia, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan (Marriott STARS) and Casa Brera, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan (Marriott STARS). Booked through us, each adds a room upgrade where one is free, breakfast for two each day, a hotel credit and early check-in or late checkout when the hotel can give it, at no extra cost to you.
Excelsior Hotel Gallia, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan: Linate (LIN) is about 5 miles away; Orio al Serio about 32 miles and Malpensa about 33 miles. Casa Brera, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan: Linate (LIN) is about 9.3 km away; Malpensa about 50 km and Orio al Serio about 53 km.
Not sure which suits your trip?
Sign up to make an account, and we will reach out to arrange a discovery call with you.