"We had a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment for 995.20€ per day with breakfast (parking was an extra 20€ per day).
We didn’t like this hotel. The location was too isolated, and there were only a few restaurants in the area (Bellagio would have been a better choice). The hotel buildings that comprised the apartments and the hotel itself were “cobbled” together into a “Furshlugginer" mess. In addition, the way that the connections from one building to another were designed was nuts. For example, to get to the main hotel building from our apartment building, we had to walk by the pool (if it was open, otherwise on the beach). After unlocking the gate (no one told us how to do that when we checked in), you needed to step around a foot bath pool that was ridiculously large. At the other end of the pool, the gate and lock were a different system, and the foot bath pool was placed in a way that made getting around it and unlocking the gate almost impossible (for little people like us with short arms) without falling into the foot bath pool. The other ways to walk to the main building from our apartment were to walk up the driveway (quite an ascent) or to walk along the beach area and up many stairs.
In the hallways, you needed to learn where the light switches were because the lights did not go on automatically. Our building was called the Bellagio Lake Resort. Our apartment was on the third floor.
Our two-bedroom, two-bath apartment at 75 square meters was cramped and "down market". There was a hall when we walked in, and the two bathrooms were off of it. They were both small. One had a shower, the other did not. One had a useful counter around the sink and a clothes washer in it. The other one was a standalone sink with no place to put stuff at all. There were shelves and cabinets on the other wall—very inconvenient and unpleasant to use.
The bedrooms were tiny, and the master only had room for a standard double bed. That bed had a mattress of the type that shook when the other person moved. When we opened the closet in the master, we could not walk past the bed. The other bedroom had room for two twin beds lengthwise.
The windows only opened into the room, not from the top. Keeping them open was difficult. To keep out the light, shutters needed to be closed.
The light switches were installed in crazy places and in crazy ways, so it was difficult to figure out what was where. In any event, there was not enough lighting in the apartment. We asked for an extra lamp, but it wasn’t enough. We wanted to sit at the dining table to use our two laptops when we arrived, but there was only one electrical outlet near the table, and it was used for the only (and very necessary) standing lamp in the room. When we arrived on Saturday, we asked for an electrical multiplier. The hotel did not have one, and we waited until Monday for one to be brought so that we could plug in our laptops to use them.
In the kitchen, there were two appliances on the counter (coffee maker and water boiler), but no place to plug both in at the same time. The kitchen did not have a microwave—only a stovetop and oven.
The furniture was uncomfortable, and there was no coffee table in front of the sofa. The TV screen was minuscule, and it was poorly placed for viewing. The balcony was in the middle of the building, so we didn’t have any opening on the side; it was dark, and the furniture was poorly placed and uncomfortable.
For our first dinner, we went to Filo at the hotel. It was the worst meal of our Lake Como stay. However, the service at dinner and also at breakfast was very nice--caring and attentive, especially by Silva.
The staff at the hotel (especially Elena from the housekeeping staff) was very nice, welcoming, and generally well-trained. If it weren’t for them, we really, really would have disliked the place. The hotel was expensive (as was all of Lake Como), and it really did not provide value for the money."
A Tripadvisor traveler review
Sep 22, 2025
