Hotel Beau Rivage

To begin with the positive - the staff are wonderful. Very friendly , helpful & hardworking. They deal with quite a few groups, which must have it's special challenges. The location is excellent & the views are spectacular. It's a nice old hotel with real character, but showing it's age in places. It is very clean. They repaired my TV promptly. The complaints are few & not really major. My bathroom was quite small, with a small quadrant shower with quite a high sill that I kept catching my foot on quite painfully. The shower itself had a really small head & little pressure. The walls are thin & not soundproofed, so I got a lot of TV noise until quite late at night & could clearly hear conversation in rooms alongside mine. I really hate noisy hotel rooms, but the corridors are carpeted, so no footstep noise. We had breakfast & evening meal. Breakfast was fine, but the coffee was awful. I didn't particularly enjoy the evening meals which were often lukewarm. It is very much meat oriented with veal & beef, plus a couple of nights of fish. I tried out what they called omelettes. They were really awful, small round "cakes" not freshly cooked, leathery rather than fluffy & with frozen macedoine veg. There was no coffee after the meal & we were very clealy asked to leave so they could lay up for breakfast. There is an "a la carte menu", so I suppose we have to pay the price of being in a group with another big group there at the same time. I loved the area & enjoyed my stay. It is a 3 star hotel.

The food was not very good. Also the bar closed at 10pm which is totally ridiculous when ur supposed to b on holiday. Have to say Maria was an outstanding member of staff, so friendly and always smiling and helpful

We loved staying in this hotel, the room was spacious with an AMAZING view! The transport links were great with a direct bus to the airport, the restaurants and bars around were fantastic. The staff at the hotel were very attentive, extremely helpful and friendly. 10/10 recommend for a lovely relaxing stay

We have just returned from a week stay at the Hotel Beau Rivage in Baverno and we couldn't have asked for a better experience. From the initial very helpful and patient contact to book 6 months ago by Daniel, to the welcome we received on arriving fairly late by Stefan, the constant expert attention from Guilia and all the other staff in reception with regards to our restaurant bookings, the ever smiling cheerful breakfast staff (Giuseppe and hard working effective Ciara) and super housekeeping staff who kept our room's immaculately clean and to our final day when we were offered a complimentary room due to a late flight, we couldn't have asked for a more 5 star experience. The pool area is a bonus and pool towels and loungers were a plenty. We had 5 rooms in total with a mix of lake and garden views. The road is noisy most of the day and night which we didn't mind at all as the lake views more than made up for it, but if you are a light sleeper, the garden/pool views are very pleasant and may be better than the lake view rooms facing the road. The continental breakfast had ample choice and although a little repetitive 6 days in a row, the lovely staff always made everyone feel special so it was a lovely way to start the day. The location is perfect for access to the ferry to explore the Borromean islands and also for our day trips to Milan, Lake Como and the more sandy waterfronts such as Cannobio. The town, Baveno, is apparently more peaceful and quiet compared to its busy neighbour, Stresa, but there are lakefront restaurants and bars on the doorstep of the hotel and if you have a car, it's worth the 5 to 10 min drive to other amazing restaurants that the staff were only too happy to recommend and call to make reservations for us. The WiFi was much better than expected and the communal areas never seemed overcrowded despite the hotel being fully booked. If you are looking for competitively priced accommodation on Lake Maggiore, this is the hotel to stay in and we definitely plan to return.