# Is San Siro a Good Area to Stay in Milan? Map & Verdict Verdict: Avoid. Cheap for a reason. Read the cons first. Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/san-siro Every Milan district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan.md Cheap rooms 5 km west of the centre, next to a stadium you will visit once and a racecourse you will not. One metro line, and an hour and a quarter on foot to the Duomo. Facts: 75 min walk to the Duomo; 60 min to the airport; price €€; best for budget; lines M5, tram 16. Safety: Mixed after dark. The public housing blocks around Piazzale Selinunte and Via Micene have an established drug-dealing problem, and the streets around the stadium empty fast after a match. Stick to the Ippodromo side and use M5 rather than walking after dark. People book San Siro for one of two reasons: a match at the Meazza, or a rate that looks like a bargain next to the centre's. Neither survives contact with the district. The stadium is on M5 and tram 16, so you can sleep anywhere central and be in your seat in half an hour, and the saving on the room is spent on the journeys you make instead of walking. The district itself is arterial roads, the ippodromo, and the Quartiere San Siro, a large inter-war public housing estate that is one of the poorest parts of the city. There is no restaurant street, no square worth sitting in, and nothing on any visitor's list except the stadium and the horses. The Duomo is 5 km east - about seventy-five minutes on foot, or twenty-five on M5 with a change. The honest version of the argument for it: if you are driving, it is outside Area C, parking exists and the western ring road is close. That is a real advantage and it is the only one, and it is not usually worth what it costs in time for the rest of the stay. What works: - Outside the Area C congestion charge, with parking, if you are driving - M5 has three stations in the district and reaches Garibaldi in 15 minutes - Rooms are among the cheapest in the city on non-match nights What does not: - Seventy-five minutes on foot to the Duomo; 5 km with nothing on the way - One metro line and one tram, and both are slow branch services - Nothing to eat or do in the district outside the stadium's own bars - Rates spike and the streets fill on the sixty-odd match days a year Hotels in San Siro: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D790%26dest_type%3Ddistrict%26group_adults%3D2%26no_rooms%3D1 ## Other districts in Milan - [Duomo](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/duomo): Recommended. The whole core inside the old canal ring, not just the cathedral square: the Castello, Sant'Ambrogio and the Colonne di San Lorenzo are all this district. You pay Milan's highest rates and walk to everything. - [Brera](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/brera): Recommended. Ten minutes north of the Duomo, cobbled and low-rise, with the Pinacoteca and the best-looking streets in Milan. It is also the district that fills up loudest on a Friday. - [Magenta & San Vittore](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/magenta-san-vittore): Recommended. Corso Magenta and Sant'Ambrogio, ten minutes west of the Duomo. The Last Supper is in it, and it is the quietest central district in Milan. - [Sarpi & Chinatown](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/sarpi): Mixed. Milan's Chinatown, on a pedestrianised Via Paolo Sarpi fifteen minutes north-west of the Duomo. The best cheap eating in the city, and no sights at all. - [Pagano](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/pagano): Mixed. Corso Vercelli's shopping street and the wealthy blocks behind it, one metro stop past Magenta. Safe, dull, and cheaper than it looks. - [Ticinese](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/ticinese): Recommended. The strip running south from the Colonne di San Lorenzo to the Darsena. Close enough to walk to the Duomo in under twenty minutes, close enough to the canals to skip the taxi home. - [Navigli](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/navigli): Mixed. Two canals lined with bars, and the best evening in Milan if you are out in it rather than asleep above it. Half an hour on foot from the Duomo and short of daytime reasons to be here. - [Guastalla & Porta Vittoria](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/guastalla): Recommended. The quiet blocks south-east of the Duomo: the Besana rotunda, the botanical garden and the courthouse. Ten minutes in, and nothing loud in it. - [Porta Romana](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/porta-romana): Recommended. The old Roman gate and the streets behind it, twenty minutes south-east of the Duomo. Where Milanese eat, with Fondazione Prada at the far end. - [Porta Venezia & Corso Buenos Aires](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/porta-venezia): Recommended. A shopping avenue with three metro lines under it and Milan's best value rooms along it. Book the Porta Venezia end; the discount at the Loreto end is the discount for a reason. - [Isola](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/isola): Recommended. A former working-class pocket behind the tracks, now the district under the Bosco Verticale. Good food, real evenings, and a thirty-five-minute walk from anything historic. - [Centrale](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/centrale): Mixed. Milan's densest block of cheap hotels, wrapped around the country's second-busiest station. Two metro lines, every train, and the one part of the centre that people are warned about after dark. - [Loreto](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-milan/loreto): Avoid. The cheap end of Corso Buenos Aires, on an M1/M2 interchange. Wikivoyage names it among the areas that can be unsafe at night, and the rooms are priced accordingly.