Hotel Ristorante San Carlo

My husband and I stayed here for six days in June and we’d booked a suite designed for three people to give us a bit more space but were very disappointed. Pros: Good view over the lake. Staff helpful. Comfortable bed. Breakfast adequate. Cons: Car parking - available for approximately 8 cars and a nightmare to use during restaurant hours as more often than not on returning from a trip out (nothing to keep you at hotel) the car park was full of cars from people using the restaurant. The seating area in room - the put-you-up bed was used as the settee and was extremely uncomfortable to sit on as you had to be in a semi prone position to use and was hard to sit on, also, its positioning within the room was such that the lake views couldn't be seen. The balcony - was smaller than expected and certainly would not have been able to accommodate more than two people. It had stylish looking furniture but once again extremely uncomfortable to sit on for more than five minutes. The Bedroom- Had a large mirror running the width of the room over the bedhead. It was impressive and stylish to look at but totally impractical, for anything other than checking your hair, if you were wanting to get a full-length view of yourself, you’d have to climb on the bed and bounce. The Bathroom – Shower over bath with no curtain, so constantly worrying that you’d flood the bathroom. Bath had jacuzzi outlets that didn't work. Just one small shelf for toiletries etc. Sink riser plug stuck in open position so unable to run a bowl of water for shaving etc so lots of small bits and pieces that do not represent the price tag of this room. Tv only available to watch in the bedroom so if there were three of you and you fancied catching up on the news, you’d all have to sit on the bed. All style and no comfort.

There was a wedding on, so the staff were clearly overstretched. One of our rooms was not ready , we had to wait quite a while for it to be cleaned. They did give us a drink to apologise , but my main issue is room security. We were in bed, when another guest came into our room ! I don’t know who was more shocked , us or the gentleman!!. He quickly apologised and left . I am horrified that someone else was given a key to our room !!! I raised this with the manager in the morning, but he did not appear shocked or even apologise. The views are amazing, rooms mediocre, parking tight and limited. Would not return . There are better hotels

San Carlo Hotel & Restaurant, Arona - I have been visiting lake maggiore and in particular Arona for quite a few years as we are fortunate enough to live 2&1/2 hours away. Firstly, when you only know Maggiore as a (completely and utterly stunning!) lake, you will go to small towns around the lake which are all beautiful in their own way, but to me don’t have much real heart, variety (ALOT are very small for what to do or eat and many are very poorly served for things to do or eat in off season, aren’t served by the ferry in off season, so anytime other than mid spring or autumn there isn’t much going on in almost all the smaller towns) Also traditional shopping or the traditional promenades and cobbled streets etc are lacking in other places. Aroma surpasses all towns in my opinion around Maggiore (I haven’t investigated the North still yet!) I suspect due to the fact it is on the main train line to Milan making it commutable. Then, steep inclines around the lake = THE BEST VIEWS! no trees houses in front of you partially blocking many a fabulous view, but also when being in front of you so detracting from the views. HOTEL SAN CARLO has not one property in front of it, just trees and forest down to the shoreline; it’s views are PANORAMIC through floor to ceiling and wall to wall glass french doors, very unusual in italy as most are small openings with patio doors. It offers its own parking, and, to date, consistently the best restaurant I have still ever eaten at worldwide can you believe with the simply out of this world class of food, and to date, some of the nicest tasting wines which are superbly selected (I’m not usually a big wine drinker) There is an unbroken feeling of welcome, intimacy & care with this secret kept gem on the mountain as well which as a lady on my own makes me feel so at home really in some way when I pop here; unusually I also feel very at home popping down to the restaurant on my own too which takes a certain atmosphere and intimacy of feel for me to ever feel this is ok for me :-) Only thing I can think of is that if you don’t have a car then it’s probably not the hotel for you if it’s not just a lovely overnight stay (you could easily get a taxi from Arona station up here I suspect as must be 5 minutes only) as the very quick little pop into arona by car is what makes this hotel so fabulous being near to arona as opposed to other hotels anywhere else around the lake; you wouldn’t want to walk down to Arona from here, too far, too steep, and it’s a well used road; IF you want an historic old over 100 year old hotel (which will have small window openings to the lake bear in mind..!) this isn’t the hotel for you; what you get here it wall to wall floor to ceiling glass unparalleled views from dining and bedroom, with quirky (I’m a designer..) fabulously successful warm coloured hand finished decor with Gustav klimt artfully placed around; it has a charm and character all uniquely of its own, nestled in the mos

Ho soggiornato qs wk all Hotel S Carlo con il mio amato amico a quattro zampe Pedro, mi sono trovata molto bene sia per la camera : calda accogliente e con un vista mozzafiato . Ps: do una nota di merito per la musica la filodiffusione, finalmente una musica all altezza della location e della splendida vista!!🥇

Siamo stati accolti in un modo fantastico, bellissima vista sul lago, stanze molto spaziose e pulite, ottima cena e colazione. Staff molto simpatico con i nostri bambini. Consigliato. Ci ritorneremo sicuramente

In giro per lavoro ritorno in questo albergo dopo 8 mesi. È rimasto tutto invariato, purtroppo il box doccia è sempre lo stesso non va per niente bene e andrebbe cambiato. Per quanto riguarda il resto confermo quello già detto nella recensione precedente. Ambienti puliti, buona colazione, personale gentile.