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To and Fro Machines Will Keep You Awake at the Gray Hotel

Where: Via San Raffaele, Milan, Italy, 20121

This week we continue our series on European hotels. Since Vogue and Versace have apparently heralded the return of the supermodel, we decided to check in on Italy's fashion capital, Milan, for some cool places to stay and at least one to avoid. But if you have any suggestions for us on what to hit up or to stay far far far away from, let us know.

The Gray Hotel is a luxe design hotel centrally located to all the sights of Milan, with 21 guest rooms (2 of which have private gyms!) and hip furnishings. We have to admit, looking at some of the hotel pictures got us excited.

Which is why the review of the place has us so disappointed.

The location is indeed superb, just minutes away from il Duomo, but along with the central location comes noise. Not just normal chattering...noise from the cleaning teams that clearly make this area the sparkliest tourist area in Europe. The machines start up at midnight and seem to continue to and fro, to and fro until at least 3am. I am positive it was only one side of the hotel that suffered (my side) but basically rooms 105 and neighbouring 104 and 106 will have had equally sleepless nights so make sure you ask to NOT have these rooms. Totally ruined my entire stay.

Things did not end there with the cleaning crews. The TVs only have one English channel, there's a DVD player but you have to bring your own DVD, a "poor" room service menu, a bad shower drain and a tiny hotel bar. But perhaps the real measure of how bad the guest's stay was that even though work fronted the 330 Euros a night bill, he won't even think of returning.

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· Gray Hotel reviews [TripAdvisor]