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Reviews of Genius Hotel Downtown

3 out of 5
Genius Hotel Downtown
Via Porlezza 4, Milan, MI

Reviews

8.2

Very good

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Rating 8 - Good. 205 out of 428 reviews" "
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Rating 2 - Terrible. 8 out of 428 reviews" "

8.8/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

8.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Christine

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Clean and comfortable
My single room was small and not at all fancy, but it was clean and comfortable. The common areas and exterior for the downtown Milan location do not match the photos on this website--the real thing is actually nicer than what is pictured. The current photos must be from another location. We found the staff helpful and we loved a few of the details like free refills on sparkling water in the lobby.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Yuriy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
This hotel has very convenient location in walking distance to the major attractions, Duomo, Sforzesco Castle, shopping, etc. Easy transportation, train and Metro also close by. Small rooms. Good for a couple of days.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Helga, La Crescenta

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
All well, excellent experience, excellent staff
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Barry

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
An excellent hotel
An excellent hotel in a great location. Friendly staff and clean and comfortable rooms.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kristyn

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great staff and location.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jeff

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This Hotel was wonderful. The location was excellent and the staff was fantastic. It was easy to walk everywhere. The castle, cathedral, and tons of shopping. The breakfast buffet was excellent and gave us a great start in the morning. Made for a great stay in Milan.

8/10 Good

Mohamed

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Anne-Marie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Penny

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
A lovely hotel close to everything we wanted to see in Milan. Comfortable beds and very nice buffet breakfast.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Brianna

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Staff & service
Very clean great location and great staff
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

8/10 Good

Alexander

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
The bathroom is dated and needs renovation. The sinks are blocked and the drains create a lingering smell. Otherwise everything else was great
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Michael, Altadena

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Perfect stay in the heart of everything.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Mahshidsadat

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Perfect location, amazing staff, very clean, great service, reasonable rates.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Nora

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Maddie Caris

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Amazing hotel in an amazing location! Couldn’t fault our stay at all!
Stayed 3 nights in May 2023

8/10 Good

Johan

Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2023

8/10 Good

Gabriela

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

8/10 Good

etienne ruurd

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wonderful experience
A lovely experience. A super host receptionist, Sofia. A-grade unit. Modern, clean. Great location.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Guerry

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
One night stay at Genius Hotel. Perfect location for exploring the Duomo and surrounding areas. Hotel is tucked back from the major streets. No views but quiet. Room was small but well appointed. Space for luggage was limited. Bed was comfortable. Contact with staff was limited, but they were very friendly and efficient.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Regina

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Loved this hotel I would recommend it to anyone who is going to Milan for a couple of days. Location was perfect and the staff was incredible. The room was big for 3 people.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2022

8/10 Good

Nilesh

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022

8/10 Good

Barry

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Good location
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2022

8/10 Good

Josef

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

6/10 Okay

Kathleen

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Property was in a good location as far as walking about town, but was unable to summon a taxi to our hotel on 2 different occasions. Staff just kept telling us that no taxis came to their hotel. Had we known this, we would’ve stayed somewhere else. Our room was quiet, but very small, including the bathroom.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Sofia

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The room was comfortable and very clean. Location is great as a few minutes walk from Malpensa Express station and a few minutes walk from Duomo. Check in was flawless. Will definitely stay there again
Stayed 1 night in May 2022

6/10 Okay

joe i.

Liked: Cleanliness
CHEAP SKATES
THE STAFF WAS HELPFULL, GIVEN THE GOOD LOCATION OF THE HOTEL AND THE PRICES THEY SHOULD INVEST SOME MONEY FOR UPDATES, THE ROOM FACED A COURT YARD THE AC/ HEAT COULDN'T BE CONTROLLED WAS A BIT CHILLY, TO MANY MOSQUITOES IN THE ROOM WAS BITEN A FEW TIMES
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Definitely a good choice for single travelers or couples. We travelled with our little son, so it was harder in some aspects. Clean room, not big, but has a very high ceiling, which provide a spacious feel inside. Good free breakfast and very convenient location - just 5 minutes away from Duomo.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

10/10 Excellent

andreea

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location
The hotel has a great location . It’s near all the attractions and shopping. Hotel is very clean , good breakfast and very helpful staff.
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2020

8/10 Good

Amanda

Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Emily

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good location for us.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019

4/10 Poor

Kritika

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
Noisy and simple
The hotel is under renovation which caused much noise and distress, you can't sleep in the mornings because of the bangings. Besides that the cleaning ladies doesn't seem to understand what the sign "do not disturb" means, cause they knocked on my door and barked in, every day for 3 days of my stay, even though I had my sign on the door.
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Iman

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Mary Grace

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Staff was very friendly and super helpful. Gave great suggestions on where to go and what to do. Room was clean and AC was awesome.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

2/10 Terrible

Payam

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Terrible experience
False advertisement by hotels.com and the company. Room was mentioned to have balconies and paid for that but never delivered the promise and charged the same.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Mark

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location and comfortable room
This is a nice hotel about a 5 minute walk from Duomo di Milano. It is also about a 2 minute walk to a metro station. Great location! The room was clean and comfortable, and the staff was helpful with restaurant recommendations nearby.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Yuko

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect to stay in Milan
It was an excellent hotel with this price. 10 minutes away to many places you would like to visit. I went to see opera at night and walked back to the hotel easy and safe. Also, a market called Punt Simply is 10 minutes away. Breakfast was pretty good! All the staff was very friendly and helpful. I will stay there again. Only negative was WIFI was weak in the room.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Debra

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely hotel!! Staff was very friendly.
The hotel was in a great location and very clean. Staff helpful and baggage hold until room ready convenient. Great free breakfast buffet which had a very great selection of foods. Nice little sitting area to relax if you didn’t feel like going back to your room. I would recommend this hotel to anyone choosing to stay in Bologna. The city is really interesting with fabulous food and many porticos to roam around town. Should have stayed a few more days!!!
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Valerio

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Yeaji

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Everything was great except for slow wifi
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2019

6/10 Okay

Raven

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Poor air conditioning.
Air-conditioning only switched on in periodical 10 mins interval, not the best way to sleep in summer days.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Marcus

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Sharon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Highly recommended
A great place to stay in all respects. Modern, streamlined, clean and helpful staff. The breakfast is great and the location so convenient.
Stayed 1 night in May 2019

10/10 Excellent

MOHSIN

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2019

8/10 Good

Jocelyne, Beirut, Lebanon

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very pleasant hotel in the lively Brera district. Excellent location, close to everything. Super clean rooms ans common areas. Very nice friendly and helpful staff. I will definitely come back
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2019

10/10 Excellent

Russell

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice short stay
Nice short stay, great staff and breakfast.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Zakaria

It was a nice hotel, the staff was sweet and helpful. However, the best thing about the hotel is the great location in the centre of the city and near the metro and the train station
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2018

10/10 Excellent

Patrick

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Top Milan place.
Was our second stay in Milan, staying near Duomo a month earlier. This stay, so near the Castle but also Via Dante, metro and Cardorno train station (and lovely stroll back to Duomo area in any case) was terrific. Arrived very early, bags kept of course, immediate advice on seriously good restaurant in Via Rovello for lunch (returned for evening meal a couple of days later). All expected hotel needs very good- wifi, breakfast, servicing etc with so helpful staff. Close to a theatre where we landed music as well. Easy access to main historical and artistic sights, walking or trams/metro. Walked from Castello/Carolina metro with roller bags, no hassle and so close but also just off main streets for quiet. Wine etc also available. This was last stay of a month long stay in Lombardy and was such a pleasant, convenient place to stay with friendly and helpful staff.
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

Alan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2018