Hotel St.George - Milano, Italy 

What a great hotel! Right by the metro, a fabulous breakfast, friendly staff and resonable weekend prices. This seems to be a business hotel, so the weekend rates were great. The area is a business area, but we enjoyed it. There is a large grocery store a few blocks away, as well as a McDonalds to use as a reference point. The breakfast is extensive with meats and cheese and pastries and juice and yogurt. We stayed here the night we arrived and liked it so much we booked it for the last night of our vacation too. Get the 24 hour train pass and you can go wherever you want. It is within a few blocks of the train station. The hotel provided shampoo and a hairdryer and a large bathroom, which we learned to appreciate after staying at other places. The beds are a little hard (from my experience the European norm) but there was no street noise. I definitely would stay here again, at least on a weekend while trying to catch a flight from Milan.