Casa Baglioni Milan

Casa Baglioni Milan

Casa Baglioni Milan sits five minutes' walk from the Pinacoteca di Brera, and the hotel keeps its own private art gallery inside the building, an unusual claim among the addresses clustered around Turati and Museo Poldi Pezzoli. It's a small hotel, 30 rooms, part of Leading Hotels of the World and classified as a design hotel, which explains why the art extends past the lobby. Rooms come with room service and toiletries as standard, private bathrooms throughout, and a handful of rooms and suites add safes, telephones, and even a balcony. The building runs 24-hour reception and concierge, along with dry cleaning, laundry, and a safe-deposit box for anyone with less patience for logistics. There's a restaurant, a bar, a fitness centre, a conference hall, and a doctor on call for anyone who prefers reassurance nearby. Pets travel too, for a flat 50 EUR per stay. Wi-Fi and parking are both available, and check-in and check-out sit at the standard 2pm and noon. None of this comes cheap on incidentals: a buffet breakfast runs close to 55 EUR a head, and a 150 EUR daily deposit is taken at check-in, so this isn't the address for someone counting every euro. It suits a traveller who wants Brera on her doorstep, a bed close to La Scala and Villa Necchi Campiglio, and a building small enough, at 30 rooms, to feel like a private address rather than a hotel. It doesn't suit anyone who wants a sprawling resort or an anonymous check-in. Between the galleries next door and the deposit slip at the desk, Casa Baglioni is proof that discretion in Milan still comes with a price tag attached. Casa Baglioni Milan pairs 30 rooms with its own private art gallery, five minutes from the Pinacoteca di Brera. It suits a traveller who wants a small, design-led address near Milan's art district, not one counting every euro against a 150 EUR deposit.