Advantages: Clean, Loads of restaurants, comfy seats Disadvantages: No where to smoke
Imagine being tired, yet handcuffed to a running machine thats on full pelt, welcome to Milan Malpensa.
The Airport that doesn\'t accommodate the needs of the smoker, (And the staff almost start laughing when you ask where the smoking area is!) brings to you the largest Duty free shop Ive ever seen in the EU, quite a few restaurants and cafe\'s and several bathrooms (Where the occasional smoker hangs out waiting to be handcuffed and pinned to the floor by the Italian Police)
The airport is connected to Milan by the Milano-Varese motorway as well by a dedicated train called \"Malpensa Express\". It is also connected to Linate Airport by a scheduled bus service. The Milan airport system has a third international airport, Orio al Serio Airport, which serves low-cost and charter traffic.
Malpensa handled over 21.7 million passengers ...
Advantages: I wasn't paying, my room was clean, good breakfasts. Disadvantages: Lack of facilities, poor customer service.
This is yet another hotel I stayed in when flying as cabin crew. I was on a trip here for 4 days, flying from Milan Malpensa Airport staying at this 4 star hotel.
Location:
About a 15 minutes drive from the airport, the hotel provides a free shuttle bus services with irregular timings. This is the place to stay if you have to go to the airport, definitely not the place to stay if you want to explore the city of Milan! This hotel is in the middle of nowhere, on the edge of a little town. Nice scenery yes, but not much to do!
First impressions:
Arriving at the hotel in a rather battered hotel minibus with a friendly driver speaking broken English, I was rather under whelmed. As said before, it's in the middle of nowhere, just off a main road. The hotel is a very modern and is painted a very garish shade of orange, not sure who ...
Advantages: Friendly staff, cleanish, selection of shops and restaurants Disadvantages: Low level security,
If you put “mal pensa” into altavista’s translation page, and click on Italian to English, it gives you a rather unreasurring “badly it thinks” as it meaning. I know this because at the moment I'm testing MT packages - including Systran which powers Altavista - and having exhausted all the techo-babble test texts, I've moved onto the more interesting world of ops - tranlsating them out of English into a random lang and back again, just to see what happens.
Flying to Italy two days after my last A Level exam last year, I didn’t have a choice of airports in Milan – although there are two in the city, BA (and after the previous op, who else would I chose to fly with?) only fly to Malpensa from Manchester. A month later, wiser, more tanned, and a little richer, my job was over and I flew home ...
