Well then. This worked out didn't it?
last weekend was me and my wife's one year anniversary. Hooray! I had to be in Italy for something other than that, but we decided that we should allow ourselves at least our anniversary to have time to spend together and enjoy so we decided to go to Milan for the night, and hang out with her friends that she went to college with that still happen to live in town. After looking up a few places in Milan on booking.com, we decided to choose this one. We didn't want something super expensive, but we also didn't want to stay in a cheapo place; it was our anniversary after all. We felt like this place was the best choice and the best price.
We were pretty sure we booked one of their regular rooms, which would have been fine by us, but what ended up happening was way better. My wife called a day or two before we arrived to ask if they had hairdryers in the rooms. They did, and the person she spoke to on the phone let her know that if we showed up a bit earlier than our check in time, if they had a room for us we could check in early for no additional charge. Sweet! Turns out we showed up a few hours earlier, but that didn't matter because we were looking to walk around Milano anyway. We went to the front desk, and they told us that if we waited a few min they could give us a room. Great. We could drop off our stuff and then head back out.
After a few minutes, we got our keys, and a bellhop to help us with our bags. We went out to the car to get our bags and he the bellhop asked what room we were in, when we told him our room number he say "oh nice. the suite. great." Me and my wife both looked at each other like....umm what?! We get upstairs to our room and it was in fact the suite, which after looking at their website, was about 3X the price of the room we originally booked! Uh Oh! Are we going to have to pay for this? What's going on! At one point a friend of mine and her bf came over to our hotel to hang out, and about a min or two after they arrived there was a knock at the door. When i went to answer it, it was one of the hotel staff standing there with a bottle of prosecco, ice bucket, 4 champagne flutes, and some nibbles for us. "Aperitivo?" he asked. I was like...uhh, i guess sure. Uh Oh! Am I gonna have to pay for this too?! I didn't ask for this. What is going on!
My wife and I were really enjoying our amazing suite and all the amenities and the amazing and super nice staff, but at the same time we were thinking, well I hope they're not expecting us to drop suite money when it's time to check out. We literally asked for none of these things! When it was check out time, we wrote down the couple of things we took from the room that they charge you for (water and a bottle of OJ that was in our fridge) and went to pay for it. The front desk person was like..."Ohh don't worry about that! we're not going to charge you for that!" In fact, they didn't charge us for anything, not even the random room upgrade from regular room to suite. Why did they upgrade us? I mean by the time we were checked in they knew that it was our anniversary, but I don't think they knew before that? Even if they knew before that....why would they just bump us up to a suite just because? Are these people really that nice?! Honestly the staff was so nice that that last question is probably yes! This place is amazing. Amazing decor, the rooms are amazing (especially the suite!) and the staff are out of this world! You should totally stay here though I can't guarantee the room upgrade...I can however guarantee that you'll love it anyway! read more