Nhow - Milano, Italy 

"Nhow¡¡ The place to be at Milan¡¡¡"
Posted: Mon, Nov 23 2009
What a place¡¡¡ I´ve been travelling to Milan every months for 3 years and finally I have found a hotel where to feel like home¡¡ The hotel is just great¡¡ A cool design in an excellent atmosphere. The staff is very kind and you can notice they take care of the small details...and for me that´s what matters in a hotel¡¡ Worth to mention..the breakfast..incredible...the rooms...so cool you feel you are a TOP MODEL in Milan´s Fashion Week¡¡¡¡

DD
Posted: Sun, Aug 24 2008
this hotel is wonderful, extremely modern and very well designed. the rooms are extremely well equipped. it's a bit far from the center but definitly worth it. great hotel.

Badly managed, ineptly staffed
Posted: Sun, Jul 06 2008
Me and my girlfriend stayed two night at the Nhow in may. I live in Rome and travel often to MIlan for work: the hotel is in the middle of nowhere (nwhotel.. is that why you chose the name?), distant from all the main Milano attractions or business areas. The hotel is brand new, and the design is quite impressive. Check in was flawless. Our room was on the third floor overlooking.. a parking lot. The design was nice, but not really functional (designers for some reason seem to love making bathrooms and toilets with glass doors that don't really close.. so if you're going for n.2.. well.. your partner better go have a drink at the bar.. ). The bed was comfortable, and the mini bar was well stocked. I loved the shower/tub with a really powerful "rain" effect. The room (as many italian hotels that prefer making a few extra bucks more than have happy customers) was lacking a coffee maker and free internet access. I had to attend an evening party, so i needed my jacket (wrinkled in the luggage) ironed. I called the reception, they said "it's policy" not to send irons to the rooms, but they had an ironing service that would pick up the jacket and deliver it in twenty minutes (at a cost) i said ok, but no one showed up. Then i needed to print out a document from my email. Went down to the recption and asked if they could print it out. They said i could go (at a cost) to the business centre on the second floor. So i went, and wandered around the second floor looking for the damn place: no directions, no signs, nothing. Went back, they said: just take the corridor the the right, it's on the left. I went again, wandered another ten minutes but was unable to locate the place. The third time, they finally sent a bell boy with me, nice black gentleman who was the only really kind person i met in the hotel staff. While taking me to the hidden and mysterious business center he apologized and told me i wasn't the only person who had had that problem. I said the hotel seemed to have a managment problem (put a sign up saying "business centre", is it so hard?), he smiled. The only really good thing about this hotel is the breakfast: amazing because of the location (full of light and charm), the variety of food, the quality. Maybe the best hotel breakfast i've had in Italy. Would i go back? No, not really.

Cool hotel, service dry, restaurant bad, location for torists bad.
Posted: Fri, Jul 04 2008
My office is a 10 minute walk from this hotel, so I stay there often. And keep going back because I do like it. As all the reviews say - they decor is cool. And for someone like me who frequents the hotel often, it is nice because they always change the decor so its always fresh and new. Rooms are not "homey" though. They are very modern. It is kind of refreshing sometimes because its a neat place, but other times (given that I live in a hotel about 80% of my life), it seems a little cold. The location for turists is really bad. I just stay here because my office is near - if I was going for the Milan sites, I wouldn't stay there. The food in the restaurant is terrible and over priced. The bar is fun - bar tender is very very nice. The front desk are blah. I travel for work and have a voucher (I don't pay) - I never print my voucher, and the Nhow is absolutely the only hotel that gives me a hard time about that. Overall, if you are going to Milan to feel the "Milan fashion" you should stay at this hotel. You also have a chance to see some models there - there are a lot of agencies in this area. Sometimes the hotel has photo shoots. Once though the elevator was shut down because a bikini model was posing in it. Oh, and the breakfast is fantastic!!! The best I've ever had in an Italian hotel! Have fun.