Hotel Villa Giulia - Ristorante Al Terrazzo — Restaurant in Valmadrera

This family run hotel clearly relies on weddings for a big chunk of its revenue. Which means, as others have noted here, weddings can get in the way of your stay...as one did with us. This may be a bad thing, depending on the wedding.||||However, in their defence the waiting staff looked after us very well despite being busy attending to the needs of 100 or so drunk wedding guests who were clearly having a great time. And that rubbed-off on us so we enjoyed being close to, but not part of the party. The music was fine and the atmosphere was fun, which helped compensate for the awful weather.||||The room, a suite on the top floor, was a mixed bag. Bed like concrete, way too hard for us, even worse than many other hard Italian beds and made sleep very difficult. Great bathroom. Suite has pitched ceiling under the hotel roof which let a lot of noise in from the rain and thunderstorm. Bad nights, overall.||||Tiny balcony shared with the next door suite, with lake view...and a hornet's nest, which was interesting. No lift and three floors up from the car park, so not ideal for the unfit.||||The head waiter - Claudio, I think - is superb and great fun. The breakfast was excellent and special gluten free cake and warm GF bread was brought without asking. ||||Lovely restaurant staff. Evening dinner was average to good, but nothing that special.||||Overall, we...

This family run hotel clearly relies on weddings for a big chunk of its revenue. Which means, as others have noted here, weddings can get in the way of your stay...as one did with us. This may be a bad thing, depending on the wedding.||||However, in their defence the waiting staff looked after us very well despite being busy attending to the needs of 100 or so drunk wedding guests who were clearly having a great time. And that rubbed-off on us so we enjoyed being close to, but not part of the party. The music was fine and the atmosphere was fun, which helped compensate for the awful weather.||||The room, a suite on the top floor, was a mixed bag. Bed like concrete, way too hard for us, even worse than many other hard Italian beds and made sleep very difficult. Great bathroom. Suite has pitched ceiling under the hotel roof which let a lot of noise in from the rain and thunderstorm. Bad nights, overall.||||Tiny balcony shared with the next door suite, with lake view...and a hornet's nest, which was interesting. No lift and three floors up from the car park, so not ideal for the unfit.||||The head waiter - Claudio, I think - is superb and great fun. The breakfast was excellent and special gluten free cake and warm GF bread was brought without asking. ||||Lovely restaurant staff. Evening dinner was average to good, but nothing that special.||||Overall, we...

My wife and I travelled to Lecco to meet our friends from Florence. Lecco is a wonderful part of Como and feels very Italian. The Villa is outside of Lecco and I had hoped that it would be peaceful and serene. We were not told by the owner (Manuela-who I spoke and emailed with several times prior) that they had booked a wedding on both Friday and Saturday. We were relegated to a small portion of the hotel and it was loud and disruptive until the late hours of the night. We had to keep our windows closed or we were part of the wedding activities. It is also next door to a club which also pulses techno music on the weekend. Repeat on Saturday with another wedding. There are many other choices for people to stay in Lecco so visitor beware. The staff is very nice||but they are so busy with the weddings that they are sparse. Our Italian friends who own pensiones and small inns were less than impressed. The friends were memorable the...