Hotel Villa Garuti

We stayed at Villa Garuti for 3 nights as a couple, before travelling on to see the other Italian lakes. The hotel isn’t very big but does have a pool area and surrounding gardens. On the plus side the rooms are very good, lovely shower, large airy bedroom area and tea and coffee making facilities, fridge etc. Breakfast was fairly average, not much choice of fruit and constantly running out of cereal bowls, we were told to use a large coffee cup instead on one occasion! The breakfast terrace area is lovely and overlooks the lake, however this area is used again later in the day and promoted as a ‘roof terrace’ between 2-8pm for drinks .. except there’s no bar so the waiter produced lukewarm beer and G&T from a small cupboard area, no ice or lemon - it was all very odd. There’s a restaurant next to the hotel, apparently part of the hotel but we couldn’t get in on any of the evenings we stayed, really disappointing as the hotel wasn’t full so clearly locals were being given precedence. That wouldn’t have been so bad but the location of the hotel isn’t close to a lot of other amenities so choices to eat out are quite limited. We mentioned this to the reception staff, they just tried to book us into other restaurants further away. The head receptionist was very aloof and unhelpful but the other receptionists, Susannah and Roberta were lovely. There’s a short promenade and a beach area but apart from that you’re limited in seeing the lake side. We managed a day trip to Sirmione via the ferry (10 euros each return), it was very pretty and very busy! Unfortunately we wouldn’t stay at this hotel again due to the location and limited options with no bar and no restaurant for residents.

Our stay was made very comfy in a very relaxing area of lake Garda. Natalie and Antonio was especially helpful, the only negative would be the charge for using the hot tub and bathrobes. Overall would totally recommend this hotel