Excelsior Hotel Gallia

A 3-minute, 188-metre walk from the hotel’s door, at number 9 Piazza Duca d’Aosta, to the main entrance of Milano Centrale; the side entrance on Piazza Quattro Novembre is 2 minutes and 176 metres away. Routes calculated on OpenStreetMap’s streets on 27 September 2026. Google says 3 minutes, Booking.com between 335 and 427 metres, measured to another point of the station. Gemini, the same day, said one or 2 minutes: that is the time to the metro, since the Centrale FS entrance with a lift is 1 minute and 102 metres away. And the platforms? One floor up: the new escalators get you there in about 40 seconds, MilanoToday reported in May 2026.

On Google Hotels, read on 27 September 2026, the official site was asking €532 for 2 on Wednesday 14 October and €448 on Saturday 17 October; the cheapest reseller, Evendo, came down to €444 and €354. In November the official site was asking €363 for Saturday the 7th and €445 for Saturday the 14th, in December €376 for Saturday the 5th and €508 for New Year’s Eve. In the Google calendar read on 13 October 2026, the highest priced nights shown fall in September 2027. The city tax, €12 per person per night, is paid at the hotel. The price covers the pool, whirlpool and gym and the shuttle to La Scala; breakfast only when the rate includes it, otherwise €45 per person according to Booking.com.

On price it is a draw: on 27 September 2026, on Google Hotels, the official site and Booking.com were both asking €532 for 14 October, while a third site, Evendo, asked €444. On its own page, for the same night, Booking.com was selling the Premium Room at €462 without the 10% VAT and the city tax, non-refundable, or at €514 with free cancellation until 13 October; with breakfast, at €516 and €570. Booking on marriott.com pays off for Marriott Bonvoy members: in-room Wi-Fi is free and, from 2 to 18 October 2026, weekends are 20% off. You can also book by phone, with the reservations office: +39 02 6785 6767.

Yes, if you arrive by train and will use the spa; less so if you want to walk out to the Duomo. On Google it scores 4.7 out of 5 from 2,945 reviews, 82% of them 5-star; on Tripadvisor 4.6 from 1,779, with a Travelers’ Choice 2026 award and value for money at 4.3; on Booking.com 8.8 out of 10 from 583, and on Expedia 9.4. Among the themes Google counts in its reviews, the location is praised 185 times out of 212, the service 237 out of 286, breakfast 107 out of 122 and the pool 20 out of 21. Reviews repeatedly mention worn carpets and leather trim, and air conditioning that struggles on the hottest days. For the Duomo there is the metro, a minute from the door, and the free shuttle, which you book at reception.

It depends on the rate. When it is not included it costs €45 per person, according to Booking.com; Google and Expedia list it as extra. It is a buffet at the Gallia Restaurant, from 6.30am to 10.30am Monday to Friday and from 7am to 11am on Saturdays and Sundays, and guests like it: Booking.com reviewers score it 8.5, and Google reviews mention it favourably 107 times out of 122.

There are 4. Terrazza Gallia, on the seventh floor, is the contemporary Italian restaurant, open Tuesday to Saturday from 12.30pm to 2.30pm and from 7.30pm to 10.30pm, with a bar open every day from 12.30pm to 12.30am. The Gallia Lounge & Bar opens from 8.30am to midnight, and the Gallia Restaurant serves breakfast and, one Sunday a month, a brunch: €95, €40 up to age 12, on 18 October, 22 November and 13 December 2026. On the restaurants’ website the contact page marks Terrazza Gallia “temporarily closed” while the home page gives its hours; in August 2026 one guest found it closed for the month.

Yes: the restaurant and bar are open to everyone, on the seventh floor with the view over Milano Centrale, and you book on TheFork or on +39 02 6785 3514. The restaurant serves contemporary Italian cooking from Tuesday to Saturday, at lunch and dinner. On the autumn 2026 menu the 4-course tasting dinner costs €100 with water and coffee; à la carte, starters run from €28 to €33, pasta and risotto from €35 to €38 and mains from €40 to €52, with the veal Milanese at €70, service and VAT included. At lunch the Express Lunch, a starter, the chef’s dish of the day and petits fours, costs €60 on the autumn menu and €58 on the offers page. The bar opens every day from 12.30pm to 12.30am, with house cocktails from €21 and alcohol-free ones at €20, and one Sunday a month, from 11am to 2.30pm, the terrace serves a breakfast for €60: on 25 October, 29 November and 20 December 2026. The MICHELIN Guide lists it without a star, at 3 price symbols out of 4, and Gambero Rosso gives it 2 forks.

The pool, whirlpool and gym, yes, for hotel guests: Marriott lists them as complimentary, and guests confirm it. The sauna and steam room are included too: Marriott’s hotel page, read on 15 October 2026, lists them in the fitness centre marked complimentary, available when the spa is open, and the spa’s FAQ charges an entrance fee only to guests not staying at the hotel. Marriott says only that they are open during spa hours; 2 Google reviews, from September 2023 and July 2026, describe the spa as included, sauna and steam room too; a YouTube video from December 2025 says instead that the spa costs extra, and that the couple got a discount as Marriott Elite members. Treatments are extra: a Shiseido massage costs €170 for 50 minutes and €230 for 80, and every 50- or 80-minute treatment includes an hour in the pool and relaxation area. Outside guests pay to enter: €50 per person or €90 per couple for an hour and a half from Monday to Friday, €90 or €175 at weekends and on public holidays, for 2 hours according to the spa’s Italian FAQ. The Private Spa Suite for 2 costs €300 for an hour; with an 80-minute couple’s massage, the spa’s page says €650 and its treatment menu €700. Perplexity, on 27 September 2026, wrote that the official site does not make the fees for outside guests clear: it does publish them, on its FAQ page.

From 8am to 9pm every day, weekends included: Gemini, in a conversation on 27 September 2026, said until 8pm, and was wrong. The gym is open round the clock to hotel guests. The spa asks you to book treatments and entry in advance and to arrive 15 minutes early, while Marriott’s listing says no appointment is needed. Book on +39 02 6785 3320 or through the spa’s website, which does have an online booking page, whatever ChatGPT says.

Spacious, and at the top of the building: 1,000 m² on the sixth and seventh floors (Gemini put it on the seventh and eighth). There is a heated covered pool with a whirlpool under a skylight, a sauna, a steam room, a Himalayan salt room, an ice room, a relaxation area with herbal teas and fruit, 5 treatment rooms and a Private Spa Suite for 2 with its own whirlpool, sauna and steam room. The Technogym gym is on the seventh floor. The pool is open all year, every day from 8am to 9pm. Its size and water temperature are not published: a Google review from July 2022 puts it at 20 metres long, and another, from April 2024, estimates the water at about 32°C.

Massages, facials and couples’ massages, all with Shiseido products, from €170 upwards. On the official menu, read on 28 September 2026, a relaxing or deep-tissue massage costs €170 for 50 minutes or €230 for 80, and a personalised massage €180 or €240; facials run from €170 for 50 minutes to €250 for the 80-minute Mindful ritual; a couple’s massage costs €320 for 50 minutes or €440 for 80. Each treatment includes an hour in the indoor pool and the spa’s relaxation areas. These are the menu prices on the day they were read, on top of the room rate.

The pool and whirlpool, yes: under-16s only with an adult, and only if they are staying at the hotel. The rest of the spa, no: under-18s cannot use the sauna, steam room, salt room, ice room, relaxation area or gym. There is no children’s pool and no family hour. For families, Booking.com accepts children of every age, with a free cot up to 2 years and an extra bed at €90 a night from 3.

From 3pm, and the room must be vacated by noon, according to Marriott, Google and Booking.com; check-in requires guests to be 18, with an ID and a credit card. Luggage can be left: Booking.com lists a left-luggage service, and a guest who arrived early in September 2026 was invited to freshen up in the spa while the room was prepared. Expedia says there is no after-hours check-in, while giving midnight as the latest arrival.

From Malpensa, by train: the Malpensa Express arrives at Milano Centrale, opposite the hotel, and on 27 September 2026 a direct train from Malpensa T1 took 56 minutes and cost €15. Linate is about 8 km away, according to Marriott. The bus stops for Malpensa and Orio al Serio are on either side of the station, as OpenStreetMap shows. The hotel runs no airport shuttle, as Marriott states: Booking.com lists one among its most popular facilities, and is wrong. The free shuttle goes only to La Scala, from 9am to 8.20pm.

By metro: the Centrale FS entrance with a lift is a minute from the door, and on the M3 the Duomo is 4 stops away. Or by the hotel’s free shuttle, which Marriott says reaches La Scala in 10–15 minutes, from 9am to 8.20pm; you book it at reception or with the concierge. On foot, measured on OpenStreetMap’s streets, La Scala is 33 minutes and 2,505 metres away, the Duomo 39 minutes and 2,888 metres.

Yes: on 27 September 2026 Google Hotels showed prices for every night up to August 2027, and neither the hotel nor Marriott publishes a seasonal closure. The spa, pool, bar and lounge open every day; Terrazza Gallia’s restaurant Tuesday to Saturday, and in August 2026 one guest found it closed for the month.

A station square, between the Pirelli Tower and the towers of Porta Nuova: in the rooms most guests sleep well; in the street, not everyone feels at ease. Many rooms look over Piazza Duca d’Aosta and the facade of Milano Centrale, and several guests, between 2025 and 2026, describe them as quiet. In Google reviews, sleep is mentioned favourably 32 times out of 52, the location 185 times out of 212.

Yes, if they are small: Marriott accepts one pet per room, up to 39 lb, about 18 kg, without publishing a fee, and Booking.com says pets are allowed on request at no extra charge. The spa, though, is off limits to them. On Google one guest describes an August 2022 stay with their dog. The nearest fenced dog area is in the Giardino Gregor Mendel, an 8-minute walk (631 metres); on the metro and on Trenord’s trains dogs travel with a muzzle and on a lead, outside the rush hours that ATM and Trenord set.

Yes, at the hotel: €50 a day for guests, according to Marriott; others pay €20 for one to 4 hours and €50 from the fifth, and booking is compulsory. There are no electric-car chargers. Expedia mentions valet parking, for a fee.

A 5-star luxury hotel in Marriott’s Luxury Collection, opened in 1932, with 235 rooms according to Marriott, more than 50 of them suites; its rooms page says “more than 200” rooms and 53 suites instead. The largest is the Katara Royal Suite, 1,000 m² with terraces. There are 12 rooms for meetings and events, the largest for up to 470 people, and the Cupola, a room under the original dome with 23 armchairs that disappear into the floor.

Yes: €12 per person per night in 5-star hotels from 1 April 2026 (from January to March it was €10), according to the City of Milan; under-18s are exempt. It is paid at the hotel, and Booking.com leaves it out of the price along with the 10% VAT.

No: on 27 September 2026 neither Marriott nor the hotel published any. The offers running were a 20% weekend discount for Marriott Bonvoy members, from 2 to 18 October, and the spa’s own. For La Scala there is the free shuttle, 10–15 minutes to the theatre’s door; on foot it is 33 minutes away.