Hotel Flora Stresa

Excellent! So friendly and helpful. The staff were exceptional and even gave us a complimentary bottle of wine after allowing a slightly late checkout due to me having a work meeting. The hotel itself is really very nice indeed, especially handy location for boat trips to the gorgeous islands. Highly recommended!

We find this difficult to review as we have very mixed feelings about the place. Positives?????? the staff could not be more helpful and professional. The breakfast selection was very good but as some have commented, the food can run out if you don???t get in before 9am. The room size was good and the beds relatively comfortable although the mattress was a little lumpy and could do with turning end on end. Negatives???.. we like a shower late afternoon if we???ve been out but the water in the two rooms we were provided both had little warmth in the taps until the morning. We complained and after a day were given another room, which was better, but still not enough hot water for a shower until morning. Not the end of the world you might say but for over ???230 a night you might expect hot water at all times! Also there was a funny musty smell in the rooms. The restaurant was also closed one night of our stay and breakfast also without a cook to do omelettes! The location whilst handy for the Borromean trip on the lake was good but the hotel was a good 20 minute walk(uphill coming back) from restaurants and the town of Stresa. Value for money is also difficult as everything in Stresa was crazy expensive but over ???200 a night we felt was a little excessive. Overall it was a three in comparison to many other places we have stayed. I struggled to see how those that rate it a 5 can justify a rating. They can only have stayed in some sub standard places in the past,