Poiano Garda Resort Hotel

Hotel Poiano The room, we stayed in a junior suit, there was potential to have 4 of us going however my son couldn’t get a flight therefore it was three- 2adults & 1 16yrold. Plenty of room for 4. So clean. Beds comfy. Son was on the sofa and said it was comfy, he slept well. There are no tea/coffee facilities in the room. Two prong plugs. TV with multiple channels. We did have to walk up a steep hill to our hotel room, this was challenging after a few “Spritz”, we did laugh! Nice veranda overlooking pool and lake. The view was incredible, I won’t get over it and found myself gravitating there at each return to sit and look. Breakfast- the scrambled eggs! Oh my goodness! Caters for all, we took a few bananas for the day. This is your chance to get a hot drink with your breakfast. You can also purchase separately from bar at a cost. Tea/Dinner- you get a set menu on a leaflet the night before, choose which meal you would like. You can select which preferred time you want to eat. 7pm- 8.30pm. There was one night our teenager struggled to find a selection he would like and we asked on the leaflet if he could have a kids meal, they gave him a bigger portion and no starter, he was perfectly happy with this and was shocked to see how accommodating they are. The food is Italian. You are in Italy, you don’t get cheeseburgers or mac and cheese. Try new food, you’ll be ok and if you have allergies, they accommodate this too! The meals are meat, fish or vegetarian options for both starter and main meal. You get salad bar every night with breads and oils if you wanted. Desert is buffet. The tiramisu!!! The bar, waiters friendly and make such a good lemonchello spritz, in-fact anything that ends in the word spritz! Checking out was easy, we did this the night before and needed to be done before 10pm, you have to pay local taxes in CASH. The pool- It’s an OLYMPIC sized pool, there’s three lanes for swimmers the rest is for us to mess around in and it’s fantastic. You get a token to exchange for pool towels. The pool bar is cheaper than hotel bar however the wait time for food when busy is long, so long, it took us an hour and we went in May half term. There were two people, one serving the other cooking. Fortunately, we had packed snacks in our suitcase and had a few bits that we’d bought in Garda. We didn’t return to this bar, I’d say this was a negative on the hotel/bar for not staffing adequately, it certainly had no reflection on the polite lady serving and the man who was cooking. Other activities- we didn’t try the gym, spa, golf, kids mini club or tennis because we didn’t want or need to. Free shuttle- could do with starting a little earlier and a speak times there needs to be more than one running. For us, this was the only negative. Out of 7 days of a fantastic holiday, it was only this and it wasn’t that huge of a deal, we just waited. On the days we wanted to be off earlier we had the choice of getting a taxi or waiting

Day 4 of 7 and the pool bar, which is the only source of food at lunchtime, told us it would be roughly a 2-hour wait to get food. And this is just standard pool bar food, nothing fancy. Quite poor when you've got hungry children. There is nowhere else nearby as an alternative.