Parc Hotel Gritti

This hotel is only a few yards from the banks of Lake Garda. Bardolino centre and the ferry pier is only 10 minutes stroll at the most. Our room was spacious and clean with a super view out of the rear of the hotel towards the mountains. Beware of the coach transfer from the airport. The coach driver will only go as far as the car park next to the Eurospar supermarket on the main road some 5 minutes or so drag with your cases summer heat. Our Jet2 rep mae the excuse he doesn’t want clients missing their flight home if the coach got stuck off the main road in the side street. Tui coaches take you to the hotel driveway and other firms get a taxi to ferry you from the Eurospar car park. The restaurant for dinner in the evening closes at 8.30pm. Don’t go after 7.30 as under the direction of the most annoying and patronising maitre d I have come across start resetting tables for breakfast at 8.pm and taking food from the buffet choices back into the kitchen. I suggest only staying b+ b is the solution. The reception staff rarely smile and are allowed little discretion on rules of the hotel. The girl selling tours from a separate company was friendly and most helpful. Overall certainly not a four star hotel.

Stayed here for the second time. This one was for the last two weeks of July 2019. Travelling with a jet 2 package deal on both occasions we arrived with a rather dull reception as always with a no mention of if you’ve had a pleasant journey or even as you go home. Have you had a good holiday? Sparkling wine and chocolates are available on entering but do not seem to be offered? The location of this hotel is spot on as a lake side hotel (not view)with a superb swimming pool and best of all the use of a private sunbathing grassy lake area with a food/cafe/bar area at your disposal. Proof of hotel is needed in this area but with gorgeous views and a wooden jetty area to launch you lilo then all is good. Drinks in this area are take your own or 4.5 euro for a medium beer or 1 euro a bottle of very cold water. Chrisps are 1 Euro a bag. All food is nice from this bar including ice cream. Toilets are clean but a hole in the ground and quit often lack paper. A nice chap does try his best to keep control of outsiders coming in and air bed parking is monitored continually. Rooms are fine with adequate air conditioned units. Safe and tea/coffee facilities and a small fridge. Fresh bottles of water is available every day but the water being boiled for tea use is fine. Sparkling wine in your room on arrival is all nice but my tip is empty your fridge of all drinks till you go home and top up with water and pop to the supermarket. Up to the main road and cross over to the very cheap spar. Two pints of merlot red wine costs 3 euro and bier Marietta and pironni beer big bottles for 1.3 euro each. All fruit is very cheap and chrisps from 0.8 euro a bag. Breakfast is available from two rooms. Dress code is Smart casual with SHORTS if desired (if only useless jet 2 would print in there book) both areas are very warm and the hotel doesn’t seem to like using the air conditioning at all. If you are a tea drinker then you had better get two or three cups at a time as the coffee club take about three minutes a cup while all you want is hot water!!! Two machines in each room but pathetically slow because of the coffee club. The yellow teabags are very good to say they are foreign. The poached eggs are all rock hard so do not bother looking for a dippi one. (I had 19 and all hard) the toaster wants throwing outside as the wife used both areas for two weeks. Passing three times but still white!!!!! D.i.u. Fans. Three arrowed adjustments are available if you take a flat screwdriver. Nice selection of full English available but scrambled egg is for a select ordinance. Hams and cheese bread you name it. It’s all here. Yes I’m being very selective here but all issues need addressing. Tea and biscuits and cake are free for all mid afternoon each day. The pool area has reasonable priced drinks and food with free nibbles. Free towels also if you are a guest. I do not know if outsiders use the pool as very inviting but quite rowdy young bunches off 15 to 20 were very obviously very noticeable by all that did go unchallenged.but if lookes could kill by many by the pool area!! Also these select few did not have brown towels...., maybe a blind eye.... or credit card lock on all entrances and gates. Cleaning house maids all very nice and polite. Evening meals!!! Jet 2 need (again) to put compulsory smart trousers at night as every night there was a issue. Three quarter length seems except able of dodgy jeans. Even flip flops but not dress shorts.. unless a women. Walk in and get put into a seating area. Tho many seemed oblivious to the catering managers/staff job. Wine was around 14 Euro a bottle and a wheat beer 5.5 euro. Food was repeated about every four days but with plenty to pick from be it fish or joints off meat vegetarian dishes to a vast choice off veg. The latter is very sparse in Garda after being here six times. Ice creams and cakes to a varied cheese board each night. Again. This area was considerably lacking air conditioning especially having to have trousers on each night!! Staff in the restaurant were all professional bilingual and a great pleasure to be with. With many fond memories. Yes this report is deep and in-depth but will return as have done on many occasions.

The location is fantastic, right on the lakeside with access to and from hotel. Amenities in and around the hotel are very good Rooms are good and clean with Air con'. View from most balconies is very restricted due to overgrown trees and shrubbery which are in need of cutting back.Reception staff on arrival were long faced which didn't change throughout our stay. Breakfast was OK but the evening buffet on Half Board left a lot to be desired. Poor selection and unappetising.Reintroducing the same items on consecutive nights. The hotel boasts two restaurants, but no effort to encourage guests to use alternate one and appeared closed most nights. Pool Grill food was of a better standard although this was not included in Half Board package and required payment. Staff in Pool Grill area were pleasant and helpful. Would use the hotel again but only on Bed & Breakfast basis.Afternoon Tea was only a gesture as cake was stale each day and one choice of biscuit. Overall, the hotel was good but let down only by the food. NEEDS A NEW CHEF.