Hotel ristorante Vapore — Hotel in Faggeto Lario

This is a simple Italian 2 star hotel, so if you were looking for minibars, air-conditioning, stylish bedrooms, background music, and cocktails, then you'd better look elsewhere! ||||What you get is a very comfy bed, a sparklingly clean bathroom with soap, shampoo, towels, hot water and a good shower, space to store your clothes, a table and chairs and a simple kitchenette (fridge with freezing compartment, electric rings and basic crockery) plus a good WiFi connection and a lift to transport your luggage easily to your bedroom. ||||The bedroom furniture is not particularly modern, but is functional and does what it is supposed to ... As I said, it's a typically Italian 2 star hotel with tiled floors and most rooms have a lake view. The proprietors - Mr and Mrs Diobono - and their assistant Barbara,are friendly and hardworking. ||||Breakfast is served until 10 am allowing you to have a lie-in should you wish. Breakfast is very pleasant ... fruit juices, croissants, little cakes, biscuits, crackers, cereal, yogurt, fruit purées, jams, cheese, ham and salami, plus tea, coffee or hot chocolate. What's not to like? A good choice! If you want eggs, porridge, smoked salmon, waitress service, please choose elsewhere so you will not be disappointed. But what is offered here for breakfast is typically Italian, and you are free to help yourself. ||||We have been coming here for some years now from time to time, and are still very comfortable with what is offered at what we consider to be a very reasonable price. It is good to see the same staff, and we have noticed since our last visit that the choice of food offered at breakfast time has become more varied. The peace and quiet here, plus the independently-owned restaurant in the building (closed on Tuesdays) make it a place where we can recharge our batteries and stay in touch with the outside world if we choose to.||||The hotel is closed on Wednesdays, though you have access as usual if you are a guest. The local beach and bar and just two steps away in one direction, the landing stage for the boat service to Bellagio and Como is about the same distance in the other direction. ||||Although the road down to the hotel is a bit hair-raising for first timers, the trick is to take it slowly. The locals are used to visitors struggling with the bends and are courteous if you meet them! There is plenty of parking at the hotel once you reach it.||||The hotel closes at the end of October but opens for Easter each year, but the restaurant stays open.||||A good address for sampling the real Italy, without pretensions and with...

My wife and I visited this place the first time more than 17 years ago and have been talking about getting back here ever since. We have not been able to do it before now (the kids getting older), but have always praised it to friends - some of which have been avid fans for many years and even consider it "their hotel".||Getting back in the late fall is something special - it's just before closing time for the season. We stayed there for 5 nights, and the four last we were the only people in the hotel - never the less we were treated with great kindness and hospitality, and out hostess took no ends to help us with information on local sights, but times, ferry plans and the like.||Please notice that the ferries stops service to and from Fagetto Lario by October 4th, bot you can catch a boat in Torno for Como (30 minutes walk or 5-6 bus stops) or in Pognana Lario is we were told, which is about the same distance.||Getting there from the main road between Como and Bellagio is down a serpentine road and then straight on till the end of the road.||The rooms are OK, we had a lovely room facing the lake just over the Ristorante Vapore, and since it was late October, the veranda was close - otherwise you most likely would be able to hear the guests below.||The heat was on, which was nice, at it could be cold in the morning and the evenings. The bathroom was nice, warm and with plenty of hot water and the sleep quality of the beds were excellent. Notice, however, that the hot water is not warm between late morning and later afternoon - most likely for energy saving reasons - which is fair enough.||The main room had a small kitchenette and a fridge, so you could have some cold water, some soda and a bottle of chilled white wine at hand, as well as making a cup of coffee in the afternoon.||The price for a family room (two adults and two teens) is absolutely great value - and includes breakfast and the quiet location (at least in the fall) makes it a great place to unwind.||If you're into hiking, there are some excellent trails in the mountains behind, a hike from Fagetto Lario over Molina, Piazzaga and to Torno is great (takes about 5 hours) - it is marked in a so-so way, but we managed anyway (a GPS or smartphone with local map is a great help). In the fall you can collect a lot of chestnuts - if they have not been eaten by the wild boar, whose snout-plowing tracks can be seen many places in the forest. Don't be alarmed - they are long gone before you arrive - and are mostly out during night time.||After a long time we loved getting back...

My wife and I visited this place the first time more than 17 years ago and have been talking about getting back here ever since. We have not been able to do it before now (the kids getting older), but have always praised it to friends - some of which have been avid fans for many years and even consider it "their hotel".||Getting back in the late fall is something special - it's just before closing time for the season. We stayed there for 5 nights, and the four last we were the only people in the hotel - never the less we were treated with great kindness and hospitality, and out hostess took no ends to help us with information on local sights, but times, ferry plans and the like.||Please notice that the ferries stops service to and from Fagetto Lario by October 4th, bot you can catch a boat in Torno for Como (30 minutes walk or 5-6 bus stops) or in Pognana Lario is we were told, which is about the same distance.||Getting there from the main road between Como and Bellagio is down a serpentine road and then straight on till the end of the road.||The rooms are OK, we had a lovely room facing the lake just over the Ristorante Vapore, and since it was late October, the veranda was close - otherwise you most likely would be able to hear the guests below.||The heat was on, which was nice, at it could be cold in the morning and the evenings. The bathroom was nice, warm and with plenty of hot water and the sleep quality of the beds were excellent. Notice, however, that the hot water is not warm between late morning and later afternoon - most likely for energy saving reasons - which is fair enough.||The main room had a small kitchenette and a fridge, so you could have some cold water, some soda and a bottle of chilled white wine at hand, as well as making a cup of coffee in the afternoon.||The price for a family room (two adults and two teens) is absolutely great value - and includes breakfast and the quiet location (at least in the fall) makes it a great place to unwind.||If you're into hiking, there are some excellent trails in the mountains behind, a hike from Fagetto Lario over Molina, Piazzaga and to Torno is great (takes about 5 hours) - it is marked in a so-so way, but we managed anyway (a GPS or smartphone with local map is a great help). In the fall you can collect a lot of chestnuts - if they have not been eaten by the wild boar, whose snout-plowing tracks can be seen many places in the forest. Don't be alarmed - they are long gone before you arrive - and are mostly out during night time.||After a long time we loved getting back...