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Principe Di Savoia Ready To Unveil Renovations in September
Remember our fears about the Hotel Principe Di Savoia fixing what ain't broke by renovating their iconic Winter Garden bar? 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 have to wait until the proper unveiling to be sure.
Obviously spending $50 million on the place won't be leading the Principe Di Savoia to lower their prices any time soon. Basic non-cancellation web rates are starting at €413 ($590) a night for a double, and they go upwards steeply from there.
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Trying On Milan's Top 3 Fashion Week Hotels
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.
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Is Milan's Hotel Principe di Savoia Nixing Their Iconic Bar?
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.
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Milan Hotel Wants to be Your Private Wine Cellar
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 Town House Galleria Hotel 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 sell their own stock. What exactly do they have buried down in their wine caverns, you ask? Only the best: the pink case of six bottles of Dom Perignon designed by Karl Lagerfeld, which alone costs $143,000.
Apparently the Town House has more than enough interest in both the cellar and the Lagerfeld case to warrant the offering of it. Explains the hotel: "This is for wine belonging to our guests. They travel, they like to buy wine in Italy, and so they will be able to leave it here." Fair enough, but will they snub their noses at our Freixenet?
[Photo of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II: sciamano]
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Don't Wear a Skirt On The Gray Hotel's Crazy Floating Stairs
Contemporist featured a few shots of the 21-room Gray Hotel 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 commenter so eloquently pointed out, "Not to be prudish, but couldn’t someone sitting at the bar/table see up m’lady’s skirt?" Um, so true — though we're pretty sure this is a guestroom and not a public bar so it may be less of an issue. Thank goodness.
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Milan's First Doubletree Does Indeed Have Cookies
There are usually three reasons to visit Milan: on business, on vacation or for fashion. But it sounds like there are only two reasons to stay at the new Doubletree by Hilton Milan: on business or for Expo 2015, because it’s smack-bang in the northern business district of Milan and surrounded by fair grounds.
This Doubletree is a bit special, not for the usual cookie-related reasons, but because it’s the first Doubletree in continental Europe. The group is already stocking up on hotels in the UK and so Europe seems to be the next target.
Fitting with our image of hip Milan, this hotel sounds edgy enough to suit, with a glass and wood exterior and 240 rooms that are meant to be stylish enough to fit too.
Doubletree’s regularly promoting the fact that this hotel will be perfectly located for the Expo 2015. But um, don't you think that's a little too far off to be promoting Doubletree? It's not the Olympics here. It's just some world fair, which doesn't even garner live streaming from NBC.
Whatever their reasons, we just wanted to make sure that the Italian Doubletrees will still be handing out cookies. And they will, so we’re happy.
[Photo: Wikimedia]
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A Fashionista's Fantasy :: Moschino Hotel Unveils Plans for Fairy Tale Rooms
It was back in the first days of 2007 when we caught wind of plans for the Moschino Hotel -- the latest in the fashion hotels trend -- and we hear from Women's Wear Daily today that the hotel is slated to open up in Milan next year.
The property is taking shape in a former railway station near the trendy Corso Como area. In charge of the design and concept (officially, a "fairy tale theme") is Moschino creative director Rossella Jardini.
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Seven-Star Hotels Have Perfect Personal Butlers
At an average price of around $2,300 a night, the seven-star Town House Galleria in Milan has got to be fairly exclusive. And it is. Every guest even gets allocated their own personal butler, who is responsible for all manner of duties designed to make your stay more comfortable.
Basically, your butler will do anything for you. Craving a particular kind of chocolate bar? They'll run out and grab one for you, or a whole bag full. Needing tickets so you can skip the queue at any Milan attraction? No worries at all.
The butlers at Town House Galleria are also available to take care of all the needs of your small dog (large ones, apparently, are not included).
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Bath Towels Too New at Chedi Milan
Milan seems like a good city to indulge in a luxury hotel, simply adding that to your massive credit card bill after you've been shopping there as well. So why not add another luxury hotel to the market with the recently opened The Chedi, Milan. Other Chedi hotels can be found in Asia, including Phuket and in Indonesia, but this is the first one to open in Europe. Its design has kept this Asian influence, with an Indonesian look, and a heavy serving of Thai and Indian food.
The first guests have come and gone at the new Chedi, and although things sound positive overall, there are still the usual opening problems:
Since this is a very new hotel the reception was very slow but people working there are very friendly and helpful ... The bathroom is quite big, with big shower and nice toiletries. The bath towels were so new that you could hardly dry yourself using them, I guess as soon as they wash them many times it will become better.
Other teething problems included the fact that not all facilities are up and running, with the finishing touches to the pool and health club area still going on (and no warning about this on the website or during the booking process). The great news is that the Wifi does work already.
[Photo: Arturas]
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· The Chedi, Milan [UK Guardian]
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Seven Stars (Maybe) Means Not Unpacking Your Bags Yourself
We were sceptical last year when we previewed Milan's Townhouse Galleria. Seven stars? How can any hotel be perfect enough to get seven stars?
To get things straight, the Townhouse in Milan doesn't yet have its seven stars, but it claims to be the first hotel in the world to have applied to Swiss accreditors SGS to get them. Apart from having (we admit) a fairly luxurious looking website, it also claims to be "a precious jewel in the crown of Italy's fashion city" and to have "unparalleled ambience". They also provide quite impressive services like playing your favorite music in the luxury car that collects you from the airport, sending a pianist direct to your suite if you want, and providing a butler to unpack your luggage for you.
Inside the suites, the accessories are--if they live up to the website--no less impressive. Including, they say, "the best Italian coffee machines and the most sought after books", seven-star luxury means everything you want should be at your fingertips. Even for kids, apparently: illustrated fairy tale books, adventure games and jigsaw puzzles are amongst the kit they can provide. Suites can cost up to $5300 a night so we're probably talking pretty privileged kids here. Since the Townhouse Galleria opened last December, none of its guests have left reviews at TripAdvisor--is that because their WiFi doesn't work or 7-star people are not the type to share their experiences?
[Photo: Malcolmm ]
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· Townhouse Galleria reviews [TripAdvisor]
· Future WiFi Hell in the World's Next 7-Star Hotel? [HotelChatter]
· Milan Hotel Aiming For Ultra-Deluxe Seven-Star Rating [e-hotelier]
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Moschino to Open Latest Fashion Hotel
Moschino is the latest designer clothing line to join the bunch of fashion hotels. As per usual, this hotel will first open in Milan in the fashion district, Citta della Moda, and if successful, will expand to other cities. Says a Moschino exec:
"We want to create a different hotel from what is the typical scene, one that will reflect Moschino's philosophy and whimsical image."
To get a feel for Moschino's whimsical image they dressed up alien space dolls in Santa hats for part of their Christmas card. Also since we are keeping tabs here, other Italian fashion houses that have opened hotels include Miss Sixty, Bulgari, Versace, Armani, Ferragamo and Missoni. Not that we are begging for a Banana Republic hotel but shouldn't some American designers step up to this trend?
[Photo: Julie3Jax]
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