ME Milan Il Duca

ME Milan Il Duca

The rooftop bar at ME Milan Il Duca opens onto the city's shifting skyline, with the new towers of Garibaldi rising alongside the older rooftops of Repubblica, and it is the kind of view that makes people linger past the last drink. The building dates to 1932 and was designed by Aldo Rossi, a detail that sets its interiors apart from the usual pattern across the Me by Melia group. Its 132 rooms and 34 suites sit across 11 floors, and the ground floor houses STK, the New York steakhouse, giving the restaurant scene a different pulse than the typical hotel dining room. Two executive boardrooms totaling 100 square meters and a gym open around the clock cover the working traveler, while a spa, massage room and yoga space handle everything else. There is a library, a nightclub on site, and staff who speak English, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, French and Arabic. Families are not an afterthought either: junior suites here sleep up to five adults and three children, and pets under five kilograms travel for a surcharge. What the hotel does not offer is distance from its own energy; the bar and nightclub sit close to the guest floors, so anyone wanting a hushed retreat from Milan's pace should look elsewhere. It sits near Piazza Gae Aulenti and the Indro Montanelli park, close enough to walk to both and return for a steakhouse dinner or a rooftop drink over the Garibaldi skyline. ME Milan Il Duca pairs Aldo Rossi's 1932 building with a rooftop bar over the Garibaldi skyline and an STK steakhouse on the ground floor. It suits travelers who want to be in the middle of Milan's energy, not those seeking quiet distance from the in-house nightclub.