HotelChatter - Milan

Principe Di Savoia Ready To Unveil Renovations in September

amandak — 2009-08-27T16:03:09-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Principe_di_Savoia.jpg" class="top"> Remember our fears about the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Principe+Di+Savoia/ian/141199">Hotel Principe Di Savoia</a> fixing what ain't broke by renovating their iconic <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/2/26/14025/6698/hotels/Is_Milan_s_Hotel_Principe_di_Savoia_Nixing_Their_Iconic_Bar_">Winter Garden bar</a>? Well, we're not 100% sure yet but the renovations at the hotel are pretty much done and from what we can figure out, it's still an impressive place.Ready to debut in September, the $50 million worth of renos include nine new suites, a new Imperial Suite and an impressive new lobby (pictured); and a refurbishment of the bar. The refurb of the Winter Garden has been planned by architect Thierry Despont, who also worked on the Dorchester in London and the Getty Center in LA, so we're feeling we're in good hands but we'll

Trying On Milan's Top 3 Fashion Week Hotels

JetSetCD — 2009-03-03T13:20:27-05:00

With one more day to show the world what exactly they'll be wearing next year, the fashion set is packing up and checking out of their Milan hotels in preparation to return to Paris for the final ready-to-wear shows. After this week, the hotel bars of Milan will return to the casual crowds, and echoes of heels in marble halls will have quieted. While everyone is enjoying their last few Italian parties, let's take a gander at Milan Fashion Week's Top 3 Hotels.

Is Milan's Hotel Principe di Savoia Nixing Their Iconic Bar?

JetSetCD — 2009-02-26T13:26:11-05:00

Well over New York and having just sprinted out of London, the travelers to the various international fashion weeks are entering the home stretch as Milan's shows kicked off yesterday for another week of careening about in heels and networking in the city's best hotels.

According to the Chic Report, however, the crowd favorite Hotel Principe di Savoia is in the process of remodeling or moving their iconic Giardino d'Inverno bar.

Milan Hotel Wants to be Your Private Wine Cellar

JetSetCD — 2008-12-19T14:18:32-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/Galleria_Milan.jpg" class="top"> A trip to Italy usually on the pursuit of one or all of three things : history, fashion and wine. With Milan being Milan, not only does it have all three in spades, but it's got the seven-star <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Townhouse+Galleria/local/501">Town House Galleria Hotel</a> to give you top-tier access to them. Launching the first hotel-based "wine stock exchange," or an in-house cellar where guests may store their fine wine and champagne purchases, the Town House Galleria seeks to expand their ridiculously luxurious amenities, which already include personal butlers for every guest. Rooms here regularly fetch $2,500 a night, so we're not surprised at this extra icing on the cake, but they'll even be going so far as to

Don't Wear a Skirt On The Gray Hotel's Crazy Floating Stairs

Jenna — 2008-11-14T11:55:58-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/thegray_aug08_01.jpg" class="top"> <a href="http://www.contemporist.com/2008/08/20/the-gray-hotel-in-milan-italy/">Contemporist</a> featured a few shots of the 21-room <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Gray/ian/208221">Gray Hotel</a> in Milan, designed by Florence architect Guido Ciompi, that totally turned us on. All 21 of the hotel's guestrooms are unique and, if you ask us, pretty stunning we do love us some design hotels. But a photo of a particular feature caught our eye. Behold: the famed floating stairs (which have been making the rounds on the Internet this week) in one of the rooms. As always, we have several questions: do we see a handrail? We're clumsy and, well, we know we wouldn't make it up these stairs without some sort of an incident. Second: as a Contemporist <a href="http://www.contemporist.com/2008/08/20/the-gray-hotel-in-milan-italy/#comment-31081">commenter</a> so eloquently