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Suspicious Security But Free Mini Bar at AC Milano

Where: Via Tazzoli 2, Milan, Italy, 20154

A hotel next to a cemetery ... it doesn't start out with the best of impressions (unless you want to stay next to the dead center of town ... ha, ha), but the Hotel AC Milano gets better the more you read of a recent NYT review.

The Milan AC (part of a chain named after the founder, Antonio Catalán) just opened last October but sounds like a good place to stay particularly if you're going to Milan to shop. It's located very close to Via Maroncelli, a popular shopping area.

With a pretty sleek design, to be expected in Milan, and a decent room service menu, and a minibar stocked with beer and soft drinks that are already included in the room price, there's nothing really wrong with this hotel. The reviewer did find one problem, though:

At midnight, when I returned to the hotel without my key card, the front desk gave me a new one without asking anything except my room number. (I could have been a criminal; more likely, I could have gotten the number confused and walked in on another guest.).

But since you're next to the cemetery, you should probably be more afraid of ghosts than room crashers.

[Photo: Turca]

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· Milan: Hotel AC Milano [NY Times]
· Milan Hotel Reviews [HotelChatter]

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Uber-cool Milan on a budget

Where: Via A di Tocqueville, 7/d, Milan, Italy, 20154

So what if my favorite soccer team's title bid had just been dashed by crosstown rivals? This was MILAN, baby-- and I'd landed me a bargain room at UNA's sleek little Hotel Tocq.

Just a stone's throw from the trendy Corso Como, the Tocq is the quintessential European boutique hotel. Not many frills, just 122 compact rooms, all furnished with with the same ultramodern artistic motif that graces the lobby.

Abstract art and designer furniture abound here; only fitting for a place set so squarely in the center of Europe's capital of style. Plus you gotta love the bright-red hallway walls, all the more trippy and surreal after a really late night on the town.

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