Hotel Royal Village

The hotel is located at a nice hillside with a perfect view. Just some 10 minutes walking to the centrum of town. We had a nice family room with a half board pension. Hotel have a couple of beautiful outside pools and inside also. The food was great taste and we enjoyed everything. All praise for hotel staff and we will definitely come back again here.

Great hotel in a quiet hillside location above Limone itself with superb lake views, just a 10 minute walk down to the lake itself. Indoor heated pool was brilliant! We were accommodated in the main block with balcony and panoramic lake view. Good size double room with separate bed for the grandson and satelite tv and fridge. Room serviced everyday with clean towels. Towels for the pool available from reception with refundable deposit. Restaurant was great with good friendly efficient service. Buffet style with good choice of hot or cold dishes. Desserts where ammzing! From the hotel it takes about 10 to 15 minute walking down the hill to the lake and Limone itself it is a very pleasant walk and you can choose to walk down a very attractive path that runs alongside the small river that runs into the lake with many waterfalls along the way. If you should find the walk up a bit of a struggle you can always catch the hotel shuttle bus for a small charge. Being just a short distance away from the town itself it is a quiet and peaceful location and the views are spectacular looking across the lake towards Malcesine and Monte Baldo with its cable car. Highly recommended.

As we drove up we saw the coaches lined up in the car park, and I knew we had made a mistake. This was not the hotel for independent travellers but we have enjoyed cheap package holidays ourselves, so lets make the best of it. Sadly Hotel Royal Park was only 4 star in the facilities it had on offer not for service or quality. The vegetarian had wanted a room with an extensive lake view, a swimming pool and a location to allow exploration around Lake Garda. Royal Park delivered all of these and the view from the balcony was spectacular. We would have liked to have drunk tea on balcony but there are no facilities in the room to make drinks and a large notice declaring the ban on any food or drink from leaving the dining room. No water either and only plastic cups to take tap water. The room had a safe which we could use after paying a deposit for the key. Reception did not tell us this when we booked in and there was no information booklet in the room. Receptionists did take the nightly tax from us on booking in and gave us a map of the hotel on which key areas were circled in pen. We asked about changing rooms for the pool and were told they were easy to find down the corridor from reception. It seems you have to walk poolside in outdoor footwear to the changing area. We chose not to use the pool. There are 3 restaurants advertised. We did not join the queue for the pizza restaurant. The other "restaurants" were in fact self service canteens, and Italian Restaurant needs to be booked at reception. We only knew this when we walked in to ask for a table and then had to sheepishly walk out again. In the main canteen there was someone to politely show you to the table and then everything is self service. Beer, wine and soft drinks are included in the meal rate. The food was plentiful but bland and similar each night. The salad looked particularly tired. Serving spoons had to be left in the food pots as there were nothing outside to lay them on. Thus each dish contained whatever came of the handles after people before you had taken their food. We saw a staff member clearing tables then laying up for breakfast in the same process, She handled the cutlery by the sharp end after handing used glasses and plates. The vegetarian could not face dinner after the first night. Restocking of food pots was haphazard and done with the style reminiscent of my school canteen in the 70's. At breakfast the orange juice was watered down and there was a powder or chicory taste to the coffee, but there were several drinks machines so the queue was not too long. The room was clean, but the stair carpet was worn and faded. Toiletries and towels are provided but towels for the pool are only available after paying a deposit. We paid for a full lake view and this was spectacular. The walk up from town and the lakeside was more tranquil following the stream side path. The road route involves wall hugging and diesel inhalation if coaches or large cars come past. Both routes are steep but well surfaced. There is a minibus service into town. but the picturesque centre of town and the ferry port is easily walkable from the hotel. If you are looking for a cheap break then this hotel may do the job, but we have stayed in far better than this on package trips. We left early and booked into a boutique hotel elsewhere on Lake Garda having given up on having a pool.