Casa Vacanze Valvendra

Antonella ist eine sehr nette und zuvorkommende Gastgeberin. Die Wohnung ist grosräumig und mit allem was man benötigt ausgestattet. Parkplatz und Garage für Fahrräder. Gerne wieder.

Spacious apartment with a nice view. Very friendly and helpful hostess

La casa è pulita e comoda

Antonella was pleasant and helpful. The apartment was clean. It was nice to have parking. The photos below were taken from the threshold of the sliding glass door that looks out to the lake and mountains. There is a balcony with a table and two chairs for enjoying that view while eating breakfast or just relaxing.

The wifi reception was poor. There was no heat available in mid-May during a spell of rainy weather with temperatures in the 50s and 60s. We were told that it is Italian law for the heat to be turned off after mid April. We support energy conservation, but it wasn't enjoyable to be cold. We wanted to cancel our original reservation soon after we made it (decided to invite a friend--Casa Valvendra wasn't big enough), but when we tried, we could not get help from Booking.com. Their auto-reply system needed a confirmation number but they had not issued one. We had multiple emails with auto-replies and then a couple from agents who could not help us because... we didn't have a confirmation number. Shades of the novel, Catch 22. Although today's Lovere is still beautiful (in the 1700s Lady Montagu described it as the most beautiful place in the world), there is constant rush and roar of traffic on the main street that fronts the lake. Since the town is built on a hillside that drops steeply down to the lake, there is really nowhere else for that traffic to go, but it is noisy and there is often little for sidewalks and pedestrians.