Hotel Della Torre

We had a room on the first floor overlooking the road at the front of the building. There is a busy road in front of the hotel but when the balcony doors were closed it was quiet. The room was spacious and modern with a good shower room. There was a TV with a couple of English channels, a fridge and a safe. this is a good quality Italian hotel and as such food served is Italian and very good. Breakfast was continental with a good selection of meats, cheeses, fruit and sweet things. There was some warm food but i did not try any. Evening meals were just fantastic with a serve yourself salad course followed by a first, second courses which was served and a desert course which again was served. There was a selection of 5 meals on each course and in 7 days never failed to enjoy any meal. Staff throughout the hotel were very friendly. There is a nice well stocked bar with good Italian beer. I did not use the pool. A good internet connection is freely available.The hotel is located on the outskirts of Stresa which is a 20 minute walk away, it is a short walk from the railway station, the ferry terminal and the cable car station. There is a bus stop outside the hotel with an hourly service in both directions. I could not find any real fault with the hotel but as a personal thing i would have liked a choice of something a little plainer for evening meals as everything was served with some sort of sauce..We enjoyed our stay so much that we are looking to book again for next year.

For our weekend stay in Stresa, my boyfriend and I booked a room with view of the lake at Hotel Della Torre and I have to say that we did have a pretty good panorama view from our balcony (room 402). The room itself was clean, however, everything was very outdated. The furniture inside the room and on the balcony, the bathroom, the whole hotel interior and the pool area looked like out of the 70s/80s. The bed / pillows were medium comfortable. The bathrobe and flip-flops provided by the hotel were a nice touch and the TV was modern and I was able to login into Netflix which was great. The breakfast buffet was included in the price and not bad - I would have liked to see a little more fresh fruit and actual coffee rather than the pre-sweetened stuff from the automatic machine. Since the hotel is right on the main road through Stresa, it is also not exactly quiet which didn't bother us though. Seeing as all hotels in the area seemed to have been a bit old-school and mostly catering for the generations over 60, I actually would book this hotel again as it was pleasant enough considering the alternatives.

We recently stayed at the Hotel Della Torre. It is a nice hotel with friendly staff especially in the restaurant. It has decent facilities especially the pool, garden and outside bar area which are excellent and well maintained. The location is about a 20 minute walk to the main part of Stresa and apart from the first five minutes where you walk alongside a busy road, the remaining part is a very pleasant stroll along the lakeside promenade. Our room was on the third floor at the back of the hotel. On arrival we were upgraded to a larger, spacious room for which we were grateful. The room was ideal for our stay with a nice bathroom, decent sized double bed (hard pillows mind), plenty of storage and a nice sized balcony overlooking the back of the hotel. What we didn't realise at first was that the main train line from Milan to Domodossola was about a 150 yards from our room and that soon became apparent as a number of passenger trains went past with the associated noise even with all our doors closed. We didn't think this would be too much of a problem as the trains would stop at night but unfortunately this was not the case with really noisy freight trains rattling past throughout the night constantly disturbing our sleep. We tried to use the hum of the aircon to negate the train noise but it wouldn't stay on during the night and often would switch off only to burst back into life inconsistently. As a result we didn't get the quality of sleep we would have liked and in the end reverted to ear plugs to try and get through the night undisturbed. Personally I'm not sure if I would return to the hotel...it is by far not the worst we have stayed in but the train noise at the rear certainly put a dampner on our stay.