Help planning a trip to milan

Giraffe76

Hi all,

I'm planning on taking my wife to Milan for her 60th but wanted help with regards to how much things might cost over there, best time to go, best time to book flights and hotels etc

Kind regards Mark 

Pollycat

I think Tripadvisor might be a better bet as that is travel related.

twopenny

This is the link to the Milan Forum

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowForum-g187849-i143-Milan_Lombardy.html

You will need to put :- 

Time of year

How long for

Areas to stay in (what are you going to see and do)

Budget for hotel ie do you want luxury, ecconomic or what in between.

You need to work out which airlines go there and sign up for sales emails from those companies.

Perhaps as you seem to need the whole lot to work out and it's not usual for you you might look at getting a fly and stay holiday where a lot is organised for you.

Don't go with the cheapest, go with the most reliable ie well established and check out the hotels on offer in the TA reviews. It may take some searching as Milan isn't widely a tourist destination being more of a working town.

You can ask for recommedations for restaurants or restaurant areas when you have a selection of hotels. Then view their menus online to get an idea of cost.

If you do a bit of the work to start people will help to make it the trip you want and to avoid mistakes.

Giraffe76

Thank you for your help and guidance
Very much appreciated 

Alan_Bowen

I really enjoyed Milan, not only for the city itself but where you could visit for a day outside Milan. Verona the home of Romeo and Juliet and Venice are both easy day trips by train as is a trip to the Italian or Swiss lakes, Lake Como is barely an hour away and Lugano in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland is also easy to reach.

Milan is of course home of the fashion industry, I am more Man at M & S myself but I enjoyed window shopping, and visiting La Scala and the Duomo. On the first day, we took a 2 hour tram tour around the city which began outside the castle. The Italians tend to leave Milan in August due to the heat but if you like it, the hotels can be a little cheaper due to lack of demand

Giraffe76

Alan_Bowen said:

I really enjoyed Milan, not only for the city itself but where you could visit for a day outside Milan. Verona the home of Romeo and Juliet and Venice are both easy day trips by train as is a trip to the Italian or Swiss lakes, Lake Como is barely an hour away and Lugano in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland is also easy to reach.

Milan is of course home of the fashion industry, I am more Man at M & S myself but I enjoyed window shopping, and visiting La Scala and the Duomo. On the first day, we took a 2 hour tram tour around the city which began outside the castle. The Italians tend to leave Milan in August due to the heat but if you like it, the hotels can be a little cheaper due to lack of demand

Did you plan much before you went or did you just wait to see how things were when you got there? I'm new to all of this so need some guidance
Also someone said that the airport is a long way from Milan itself
How would I go about booking a airport transfer?

Pollycat

Giraffe76 said:

Alan_Bowen said:

I really enjoyed Milan, not only for the city itself but where you could visit for a day outside Milan. Verona the home of Romeo and Juliet and Venice are both easy day trips by train as is a trip to the Italian or Swiss lakes, Lake Como is barely an hour away and Lugano in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland is also easy to reach.

Milan is of course home of the fashion industry, I am more Man at M & S myself but I enjoyed window shopping, and visiting La Scala and the Duomo. On the first day, we took a 2 hour tram tour around the city which began outside the castle. The Italians tend to leave Milan in August due to the heat but if you like it, the hotels can be a little cheaper due to lack of demand

Did you plan much before you went or did you just wait to see how things were when you got there? I'm new to all of this so need some guidance
Also someone said that the airport is a long way from Milan itself
How would I go about booking a airport transfer?

I always do a lot of research before a trip, we call it 'hitting the ground running'.
Things like checking out public transport, what things might interest us and opening/closing times/days.

eskbanker

Giraffe76 said:
I'm new to all of this so need some guidance

Also someone said that the airport is a long way from Milan itself
How would I go about booking a airport transfer?

To be honest, even if you've never planned any sort of trip before, you'd benefit from doing some basic research rather than expecting people to answer questions like that - it'll take no more than a minute or two to find out how far it is from each of Milan's airports to the city centre, and the transportation options, using your preferred search engines, the likes of Wikipedia, and the websites of the airports themselves!

Alan_Bowen

Milan has two main airports, unless you are flying with Ryanair which thinks there are three, but Bergamo which they fly to is in an entirely different city. Milan Linate is close to the city centre, barely a 15-minute coach ride from the Central Station, it is the older of the airports but many airlines choose to fly there. The more modern airport is Malpensa which is a lot further away, requiring a train transfer of 40 minutes and the trains tend to be only once every 30 minutes. We always fly to Linate and take the metro to the hotel once we are in the city centre.