Lake Smeraldo

The hotel is nice. Rooms are clean and functional, and the bed is comfortable. Hotel staff are courteous and friendly and we found breakfast to be quite good. What we did not like was the location. If you go to Milan as a tourist don't stay here; it's far from the city and you will spend time and money getting there and back. In speaking with the hotel staff, we are not the first ones to book Litta Palace thinking it's a 6-minute drive to the city center as Expedia indicates, when actually their reference is to a suburban shopping center called 'IL Centro' and we incorrectly interpreted that to mean Milan's city center. To get to the Duomo you have to get a ride from the hotel van (at 15 Euro) to take you to the nearest subway station at Rho Fieramilano (10-15 min ride), then take a subway on the red line to Duomo which is 15(!) stations away. Again, this hotel is nice but not for Milan tourists. Expedia needs to do a better job of making this more clear.

My husband and I travel internationally often and not are easily impressed. This boutique hotel is lovely, charming and very clean. Breakfast was wonderful! The front desk staff was friendly & helpful - thank you, Roberto, Francesca and Monica!!! We’ve got a traffic ticket and they helped us to deal with that. We would definitely stay here again and strongly recommend to anyone!

We (family of 4) were very happy with our stay at the Hotek Alaska. We were in Cortina to ski. The hotel was in the centre of the town, close to ski hire, ski school, bus station, restaurants and shops. We had family room (2 levels) which was spacious for all our ski stuff (ski/boot room under the stairs was useful). Rooms were cleaned well and shower was nice and hot. Lovely view up the mountain from our room. Staff were helpful however some weren’t very knowledgeable on the area/hotel. So just depended who was at reception as to whether your questions could be answered. Andreas was particularly helpful. Breakfast was ok. Choice of continental or hot but quality not amazing. Downside was we couldn’t get a good cup of coffee! All in all a good hotel with a bit of room for improvement.