Four Seasons Milan (or Four Seasons Hotel Milano) is housed in a former Fifteenth-century convent that’s located up a tiny facet road within the coronary heart of Milan. It oozes glamour and class with a classy bar, a restaurant that spills out onto an enviably inexperienced and flower-filled courtyard, and a powerful spa hidden within the historic depths of the convent’s cellar.
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Location
All the most important lodges in Milan are situated within the coronary heart of town. Many are hidden up enticing cobbled facet streets and steps from the designer shops. Four Seasons isn’t any exception and is a couple of 3-minute stroll from just about each designer retailer and a brief stroll from the principle sq. and cathedral in Milan.
We flew in on British Airways into Milan Linate airport, which is round a 20-minute drive from town heart (round €90 EUR). By comparability, if we had arrived at Milam Malpensa, the taxi journey would have taken an hour and value round €200 EUR).
Style & Character
Four Seasons Milan is historic and trendy. It can also be boutique by Four Seasons requirements, with simply over 100 rooms which makes any keep right here really feel much more unique. As you enter the lodge, an impressive staircase in entrance of you leads all the way down to a hidden courtyard, a restaurant, and a spa. To your proper is the check-in desk, down a hall that takes you to the lifts and lodge rooms. To your left, you’ll find a big, ethereal, and high-ceilinged bar space partitioned by partitions of greenery.
In entrance of you, the principle restaurant spills out onto essentially the most idyllic and plush courtyard, the place you’ll be able to sit on lawns and underneath parasols and bushes and luxuriate in a peaceable chunk or a drink. This giant courtyard is an excellent backyard escape in Milan’s hectic metropolis heart.
Numerous weatherworn cream stone pillars help the traditional arches that kind corridors across the courtyard on the bottom stage. These pillars proceed by way of the massive bar and restaurant space and provides the house a way of historical past.
Service & Facilities
While I may record the quite a few and opulent spa and fitness center services, for me, the luscious courtyard backyard is the showstopper right here. This house is so enjoyable and distinctive. It’s the proper place to calm down within the sunshine underneath a parasol.
The spa is great, nonetheless. Created by Spanish designer and architect Patricia Urquiola you’ll find a most uncommon and heat pool within the convent’s former cellar. This pool is reached through steps between thick pillars, and also you swim in its heat waters underneath Nineteenth-century vaulted ceilings.
There are luxurious altering rooms, a steam room, temper showers, and quite a few remedy rooms, together with a his and hers therapeutic massage room with a rest lounge containing a jetted tub and fireside, all set in what looks like a tomb in an historical pyramid.
The cellar location of this spa is exclusive and shouldn’t be missed, even should you solely pop all the way down to the pool. There are particular kids’s occasions at this pool. We used it throughout household time between 2:30 and 4:45 pm. There can also be a high-tech fitness center with a great deal of tools down within the depths of the lodge.
Rooms
We stayed in a Junior Suite that neglected the road on the entrance the lodge. You can see our room and examine within the photographs above. The suite was situated on ground three and had pleasant rooftop views from the mattress.
Being a Four Seasons, the room had every part you’ll count on. Great soundproofing, glorious mattress, in depth walk-in wardrobe, and a big toilet with marble worktop and a wonderfully giant and powerful bathe. Bathroom facilities have been scrumptious, being from the luxurious Aqua Di Parma model, which additionally has a retailer steps away from the lodge.
The flooring in our room was a darkish wooden parquet with a rug across the mattress. There was a snug sitting space with a espresso desk, and there was a big desk for work together with a big unit containing the minibar and TV.
The in-room welcome facilities right here have been notably beneficiant. My son was given a luxurious sloth, and we have been gifted a ravishing bunch of flowers, a big fruit bowl, and a few scrumptious sweets in addition to crips and drinks. While our room appeared over the entrance of the lodge, it was very quiet. Most rooms look over the peaceable courtyard which ought to be equally peaceable.
Food & Drink
The important “La Veranda” restaurant is the place you eat breakfast and can also be the place you’ll most likely need to take dinner because it gives elegant Mediterranean delicacies. From May by way of October (possibly longer), the restaurant spills out onto its personal personal patio space, which sits to 1 facet of the cloistered courtyard. This space gives a complicated place to take pleasure in scrumptious meals underneath an awning.
Breakfast right here was very good. I beloved that even in October, you possibly can eat breakfast alfresco, and I beloved the heat from the electrical heater lamps, which stored me cozy even on cooler mornings.
Before covid, there was a buffet breakfast supplied. however following covid, the scrumptious breakfast is served from an a la carte menu. the breakfast menu provided every part you possibly can need. I selected recent berries and greek yogurt, adopted by eggs florentine with truffle and a facet of smoked salmon. All was completely scrumptious and stuffed with taste. That salmon was notably noteworthy and of the best commonplace. My son selected the waffles with Nutella, which was equally appetizing for these with a sweeter tooth. Best of all, you possibly can take pleasure in breakfast with sunshine dappling by way of the bushes within the lodge’s historic and immaculate courtyard.
The bar space is an excellent place to hang around within the night. Serviced by a brightly lit, colourful, and round bar, the bar space extends over a lot of the foyer, together with a lounge with an unlimited sandstone hearth within the convent’s previous vestry. The ambiance within the bar and foyer is vibrant and buzzing as a result of this bar is common with trendy locals in addition to company. Some nights it nearly feels such as you’re watching a Milan trend present with locals showcasing one of the best of the most recent couture as they take pleasure in a drink.
Conclusion
Four Seasons Milan looks like an intimate boutique escape within the heart of Milan. I beloved spending evenings within the ethereal and historic bar space and breakfasts out within the sunshine on the veranda whereas the remainder of the world shivered. This 12 months, Milan provided the proper vacation spot to increase my household’s summer time and the gardens at Four Seasons Milan provided the proper place to soak up some late-season sunshine.
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