Best Milan hotel for: first time visitors
The Park Hyatt Milano is, as the contemporary parlance goes, so back. The property, which takes up residence in an 18th-century palazzo, looks fresh-faced and gorgeous after a multiyear and multiphase renovation executed through the peak of the pandemic. Now the bolthole is the place to base yourself in Milan, especially for first-timers, thanks to its close proximity to tourist attractions like the Duomo and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II—both next door—as well as the Castello Sforzesco and the Teatro alla Scala. It has all the hallmarks of a big-name and big-chain property (not that convention rooms or a loyalty points program put a hotel lower on anyone’s ranking), but there’s a sense of boutique-ness to it—if not necessarily in practice then in scale and design. It feels distinctly of Milan: stylish and sleek, creative and confident, proudly Italian. Interiors resemble sophisticated tonal dressing—the rooms, personified, are a well-groomed Italian gentleman in monochromatic Zegna cashmere jovially mingling with the crowds at Milan Fashion Week. Supper is an event at Pellico 3, which has only 28 seats and a menu that proposes just three Milanese and Lombardian dishes for each of the antipasti, primi, and secondi courses (four for dessert). As for the bar, Mio Lab, open until midnight, emphasizes creative mixology—the name literally means “my laboratory.” In the spring and summer, the space extends to a patio outside, called Dehors, perfect for sipping on Campari spritzes and watching the bustle of Milan go by. —Matt Ortile
Price: Rooms from around $1,016 per night
Hotel address: Via Tommaso Grossi, 1, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
