3 days in Milan with a family
Just hot on the heels of our fantastic first week in Sala Mandelli, realising it was not too cold, we gathered up some courage to move a little up north to Milan. Milan was always in our plans as a place to visit and Arwa had already prepared some landmarks or places we had to go to. We took our car and drove for about 2 hours to Carugate, where our next AirBNB was located at.
This time, we booked a semi-homestay type place near Milan. The place we were staying in was a home within a home – the listing of this place is at: B&B Brambillasca. Once again, we booked this place pretty last minute and we were welcomed by the host’s brother, Luca. Yes, once again, we had a host named Luca and again he was a super fantastic guy.
Luca helped us with our tremendous amount of luggage and we settled into the place really quickly. As we were only there for 3 days, we decided to leave some of our luggage in the car. Luca advised us to keep the luggage that was in our stationwagon hidden as it might be unsafe to leave it openly visible, which we did. Luca also guided us on how to get to the nearest metro where we could park for free to take a train to town. It was not too difficult, especially since we had a car. But if you do not have a car and are not too large a family, I think Luca and his family might be able to offer pick up services from the station. Or at least he seemed like he could. Without revealing too much about the exact location of the place, here is a map of what you would expect to travel.
The metro to Milan cos us 1.90 euro per adult while the kids travelled free. So in total a ride to and fro Milan would cost us 7.60 euro per day. This was much cheaper than taking either a taxi to town or even driving in as parking would be a nightmare. Also, who knows what other ZTL type things exist there.
I must say that the breakfast provided by Luca is really abundant and nice – his home made jam – super! The small house itself also has a fully equipped kitchen and bathroom and the stay was super comfortable.
During our stay in Carugate, we ended up visiting quite a few things such as:
- Milan Duomo
- Visited some high end shops
- Sforzesco castle and its museums
- Went to an art and science museum
We also had our gelato there 🙂 This had become quite a customary thing for us now 🙂
Anyway, if you ask me, I would not recommend Milan with kids for more than 2 days. At least not with kids in the winter. The good thing about Milan though is that there are quite a lot of free attractions and kids can enjoy these. But kids being kids, they will get bored after a while and mine surely did.
Here are some pictures of our trip there and if you are keen, do contact me for the details of Luca so that I can ask him if he is willing to share them before sending them to you 🙂
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