Pablo Paolucci Review of Uptown Palace Extro Hotels
Four-star design hotels are usually always a bad i...
Four-star design hotels are usually always a bad idea, this was not the exception, knowing that it could only happen because a change of plans came up with the date of stay in Milan and we could not find a hotel.
For a 4 star it is too expensive, the design of the hotel aims to look like a luxurious 5 star, but under the surface everything is different.
The two most critical things are space and the internet.
Let's start with the internet, it is NOT free, it is supposed that the lobby is free and they say they guarantee 50 mb, the reality is that when I tested it it was worse than a telephone modem from the 80's. In the rooms? 9 euros for 24 for a smartphone or tablet connection, 12 for a computer, the interesting thing is that they explained it to me like this, after paying more I did an experiment and discovered that it was possible to pay cheaper for the computer week and connect two extra computers were computer or smartphone / tablet. Although it was cheaper to spend a little more than 60 euros to have internet service, I must say that if one uses skype, for example, the connection is lost within minutes since it is forced to reset the connection every time it reaches the 250 mb of really unfortunate upload service
In the 21st century having to pay for the internet and at that price is unrealistic.
The second problem is the space I was never in a room so big that nothing fits, the bathroom is huge but thanks to the "elegant design" there is the same space as a mousetrap, for example the bathroom sink is square and about 7 cm flat depth, the tap is opened and after 10 seconds the sink is overflowing with water, the furniture was made of hollow metal and small so you can not put practically anything; with the same huge wardrobe but with drawers so small that with 4 pairs of socks one of the two was filled, the other the same. The luxurious metal towel rail in the bathroom, we checked it well, not that it did not work, it was false, it was non-functional appearance.
In summary, a pretentious and not very functional hotel that should be 3 stars as a punishment, they charge as a 5 and provide services of 3.
The most pretentious the paintings on display that were worth between 3,000 and 4,000 euros and which was a shame of how poor they were, I would not have bought them even at 1% of their value and they ugly all the places where they were.
It is the most isolated hotel I saw, do not buy the idea that it is close to something, the only advantage was a careffour 2 blocks away, then everything was incredibly far and at night there was practically nothing in a radius of 4 blocks.
The prices of the food are astonishing and small portions on top if you ask the room they charge you 7 euros more, my wife could not believe that for the first time in my life I did not tip anyone in this hotel they did not deserve it
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