MilanTips.com is an English-language city guide covering Milan, and one of a family of destination sites published by the Dutch company Bio Web Design B.V. It appears often in Milan searches, it is transparent about how it makes money, and it does not sell anything itself. This is a short, neutral profile of what it is good for — and where a reader planning tickets should look somewhere else.
Details below are taken from the site’s own pages, read on 10 September 2026.
What it covers
The structure is a classic destination guide: a long orientation page on Milan, a “Top 25” sightseeing list running from the Duomo di Milano and The Last Supper through the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Castello Sforzesco, Parco Sempione, the Navigli, Teatro alla Scala and the Pinacoteca di Brera down to San Bernardino alle Ossa and the science museum, then category hubs for museums, churches, tours and activities, day trips, transport and metro, airport transfers, city passes and tickets, and hotels.
Its quick-facts box is a fair example of the level it pitches at: best time to visit April–June or September–October, three airports with distances, metro and trams as the way around, at least two full days for the highlights plus one for Lake Como or Bergamo, and four hotel picks by price band. That is genuinely useful if you have just decided to go to Milan and know nothing yet.
It also carries a reader-rating widget showing 4.8 from 15 reviews — its own number, on its own site, which is worth reading as a design element rather than a measurement.
Who publishes it and how it is funded
Publisher: Bio Web Design B.V., registered in the Netherlands (KvK 84861738, VAT NL863421131B01) at Marksingel 94, Breda. A Dutch-language sister site, milaantips.nl, runs the same content for Dutch readers. Photography is licensed through Adobe Stock, per the site.
Funding: affiliate marketing, disclosed openly. The site’s own list of partners names Tiqets, GetYourGuide, Booking.com, Welcome Pickups, Direct Ferries, DiscoverCars, EasyTerra, Stay22, TradeTracker, Tradedoubler, Partnerize, P1Travel and BajaBikes, and explains that the publisher earns a fee when a reader books through its links at the same price they would pay booking directly.
What it is not: a seller. Its contact page tells readers with ticket questions to contact GetYourGuide or Tiqets directly, because “we do not sell tickets ourselves”. Its disclaimer also states that content may be incomplete or incorrect and is offered without any guarantee of correctness.
We are in the same business model — an independent guide earning a commission on partner bookings — so read our editorial policy and judge both sites by the same standard.
Where to check something else
Three areas where a general guide of this type cannot carry the load, because the facts move faster than a destination page:
Duomo ticket types. The Veneranda Fabbrica sells access to six separate areas under names that resellers rewrite. Cathedral plus museum is €10 officially, terraces €18 by lift or €16 on foot, the Duomo Pass €26 or €22, and service fees disappeared on 1 April 2025 — so the desk price and the online price are now identical. Our Duomo tickets page maps every rung, including the official prices and how to buy direct.
The Cenacolo release calendar. Official Last Supper entry is €15, sold only through the museum’s Vivaticket platform in quarterly batches, with extra tickets released every Wednesday at 12:00 noon for the following week. Miss that mechanism and you will read that tickets are “sold out” when they are not yet released. See The Last Supper for the release calendar and the official channel.
Cancellation terms. These vary per product, not per platform — some Milan tickets are non-refundable from purchase, others cancel up to 24 hours before the time slot. We list the window on each product; general guides rarely do.
How to use it alongside this site
Read MilanTips.com first if you are still deciding how many days to give Milan, which airport to fly into and roughly what the city holds. Then come here to book: official price against partner price, what each ticket opens, when the queue is worst, and which combinations save money. For the wider field of who sells Milan tickets and tours, see operators and platforms; for a very different kind of content site, our profile of Untold Italy.
Prices in the products below are checked September 2026.
Questions people ask
01Who runs MilanTips.com?
Bio Web Design B.V., a company registered in the Netherlands (KvK 84861738, VAT NL863421131B01) at Marksingel 94, Breda. The same publisher runs a Dutch-language sister site, milaantips.nl, and describes its travel guides as a portfolio of affiliate-funded destination sites.
02How is MilanTips.com funded?
By affiliate marketing. Its own disclosure names Tiqets, GetYourGuide, Booking.com, Welcome Pickups, Direct Ferries, DiscoverCars, EasyTerra, Stay22, TradeTracker, Tradedoubler, Partnerize, P1Travel and BajaBikes, and states that the publisher receives a fee when readers book through its links while paying the same price as booking directly.
03Does MilanTips.com sell Milan tickets?
No. The site states plainly that questions about tickets bought or being bought should go to GetYourGuide or Tiqets directly, because it does not sell tickets itself. It is a content site that links to sellers — the same category we are in.
04Is MilanTips.com accurate?
Its structural information — which airport is where, how the metro works, what the top sights are — matches the official sources. Its own disclaimer says content may be incomplete or incorrect and is offered without guarantee of correctness, so verify prices, hours and closing days against the official sites before you rely on them.
05Does it have named authors?
No. On the article pages we read the HTML author tag names the publisher's own brand, BWDTravelGuides.com, rather than a person, and no article carries a byline or credentials. The only date shown belongs to the reader-rating widget — the same 25 June 2026 on every page we checked — so there is no per-article update date to judge freshness by. Check anything time-sensitive against the official sites.
06Should I use MilanTips.com or ticket.milan.it?
Use it for a fast overview of Milan and hotel ideas. Use us for ticket mechanics: the official price next to the partner price, cancellation terms per product, the Cenacolo release calendar and which Duomo ticket opens which area.
Sources & official pages
Read next
- Operators & platformsWho sells Milan tickets and tours: official box offices, Tiqets, GetYourGuide, Viator, local guides and free tours — what each is good for, what to skip.
- Duomo ticketsEvery Duomo di Milano ticket compared: €11.50 cathedral to €69 guided, official prices vs Tiqets and GetYourGuide, bundles and fast-track value.
- The Last SupperLast Supper tickets in Milan: how the official €15 Vivaticket release works, when batches drop, and which guided tours have entry. Check availability.
- Tickets & passesMilan tickets and city passes compared with real prices: City Card €46.50, City Pass €99, official passes, ATM fares. See when a pass actually saves money.
- Untold ItalyUntold Italy reviewed: an Italy-wide podcast, app and trip-planning service. What it does well, what it misses, and how to pair it with Milan tickets.