Valeggio sul Mincio Hotels

• ma.qu
• Reviews: 12

User Rating

Agriturismo GG Visconti: Good agriturismo

This agriturismo is a great choise if you want to escape Lake Garda hotels and apartments. It’s situated just behind Valeggio sul Mincio and around the corner from Borghetto (about 500 meter). Outside you have a good view over the valley of the Mincio, the ancient bridge and the castle of Borghetto.
Great hospitality, the fridge is filled with butter, jam, milk, water and toast and you can order panini for the following morning(s). Towel change on request. Great swimming pool.
The apartments are (tasteful) basic with outside furniture. The 2 apartments named ‘Il Fienile” shares their terraces and offers the best view. “La Terrassa” offers a private terrace but has no view (only an old shed and building equipment). See also the website.
http://www.ggvisconti.it/

Unique Quality: Note: Beware of the music festivals in Borghetto, loud music until 5.00 a.m, less sleep.

• Opinion of Price: less expensive than average
• Address: Monte Borghetto 3, Valeggio sul Mincio
• Related to: Luxury Travel, Arts and Culture, Castles and Palaces
• Written July 8, 2007

2 more images

---

Was this review helpful?

• matcrazy1
• Reviews: 8368

User Rating

Helpfulness

Albergo Al Cacciatore: Albergo means a hotel!

There are different names for a hotel used in Italy, nowadys.

ALBERGO
The exact Italian word for a hotel is ALBERGO (plural alberghi). Keep in mind that at many, especially smaller and less touristy places, like in Valeggio sul Mincio, just that Italian name is used to advertise local hotels.

LOCANDA
It's mostly the cheapest, clean and simple place to sleep. As I noticed, many locanda changed names to albergo/hotel recently.

PENSIONE
There is no difference, excpet the different name, between Italian albergho and pensione, especially recently, as I noticed.

Unique Quality: CLASSIFICATION
Surely all hotels are officially classified by 1 to 5 star system. In Italy, hotels get stars for equipment and facilities available in a room and a hotel not for size of a room, comfort, quality of service or location.

QUALITY
Hotels up to 3-stars (I never used more fancy ones in Italy), I stayed in, were always clean. Rooms were mostly equipped (always in a 3-star) in a TV-set (usually small one with cable/satellite TV) and a telephone and rarely airconditioned (never in a 1 or 2-star hotels). Rooms were of medium or small size, often not well lighted (small window and light). Breakfasts were of various quality and size, sometimes very light.

PRICES
Hmm... they are high and very different and surprisingly not that much depend on number of stars. The price depends more on location and season. The highest prices are surelly in summer (August is traditional month of vacation for Italians - hot and busy month = skip it if you can) and in the most touristy places. I found lower prices in the South, except more and more popular Sicilly, which was not that inexpensive.

Except to pay (per room for 2):
€ 35 - € 50 in a 1-star hotel usually with shared bathroom ---> not so easy to find in the North;
€ 50 - € 80 in 2-star or even 3-star hotel but not in, say, Venice, Florence etc. (1-star there) ---> my recommendation unless a room has no bathroom;
€ 80 - € 130 in good 3-star or even 4-star hotels
Over € 130 ----> I never stayed there (yet!).

WARNING
In very popular destinations (like summer seaside resorts, Florence, Venice, Rome) booking a hotel in advance is highly recommended. Sometimes I was asked to pay for 3 nights at once and buy extra paid (expensive and small) breakfast.


Excuse, I will transfer this tip to my Italy page.

• Opinion of Price: about average
• Address: Via Goito n. 31; 37067 Valeggio sul Mincio (VR), Italy
• Phone: (+45) 795 0500; (+45) 795 0127
• Related to: Road Trip, Backpacking, Budget Travel
• Written June 8, 2005

ALBERGO = HOTEL

---

Was this review helpful?

• matcrazy1
• Reviews: 8368

User Rating

Helpfulness

Albergo Al Cacciatore: Double bed room :-)))

There are rooms with one US-size double bed on the second floor of the hotel.

• Opinion of Price: about average
• Address: Via Goito n. 31; 37067 Valeggio sul Mincio (VR), Italy
• Phone: (+45) 795 0500; (+45) 795 0127
• Related to: Road Trip, Backpacking, Family Travel
• Written June 1, 2005

DOUBLE-BED ROOM :-)

---

Was this review helpful?

• Maurizioago
• Reviews: 744

User Rating

Helpfulness

Hotel Eden.: A very comfortable hotel.

This modern hotel is not far from the center of Valeggio sul Mincio.

I spent two nights there (see first European VT meeting.) I was given a beautiful large room with bathroom en suite.

Unique Quality: At breakfast there was a big choice of food to choose from the buffet. Sweets, bread, cheese, ham, fruit; yoghurt.

• Opinion of Price: about average
• Address: Via Don Beltrame, 10
• Phone: 39 45 63 70 850.
• Related to: Road Trip, Family Travel
• Written May 28, 2005

Pic taken from the web.

---

Was this review helpful?

• matcrazy1
• Reviews: 8368

User Rating

Helpfulness

Albergo Al Cacciatore: White lady at Cacciatore reception desk

Unique Quality: This women with pretty white hair worked at hotel Al Cacciatore, as usual there, both in reception and bar. She could speak English and we had short nice chat in the morning just after breakfast. She was talking more with our great VT-meeting organizer, pretty swan, Barbara (BarbaraForza).

• Opinion of Price: about average
• Address: Via Goito n. 31; 37067 Valeggio sul Mincio (VR), I
• Phone: (+45) 795 0500; (+45) 795 0127
• Related to: Backpacking, Road Trip, Family Travel
• Written May 20, 2005

WHITE LADY AT CACCIATORE RECEPTION DESK

---

Was this review helpful?

• giampiero6
• Reviews: 426

User Rating

Helpfulness

• giampiero6
• Reviews: 426

User Rating

Helpfulness

• matcrazy1
• Reviews: 8368

User Rating

Helpfulness

Albergo Al Cacciatore: It was very good idea to live there :-)

Cacciatore, which means a hunter, was the main base to incoming for the meeting VT-ers. No doubts, it was very good choice to make it the base hotel of Verona VT-meeting. How did you find it, Barbara ?

This 3-star hotel:
- looks very nice at first sight (I mean design of the ground floor)
- is located at the edge of historical centre by mostly quiet street,
- has small (for, say, 6 cars) parking inside and more place for cars outside,
- staff (especially it's younger majority) is very friendly and can speak better or worse English,
- offers good buffet breakfast, large restaurant (used as meeting place for VT and as wedding place for locals a night after) and pub/bar inside.

WHAT DID NOT (!) DISTURB ME!
The room we had (no 18, on the last, 3rd floor, two single beds) was a little bit small or maybe we used to live in larger rooms which are standart in, even the cheapest, hotels/motels in the USA. There was not enough place for anythyng else than my laptop on a very small table. And there was no air-condition but a window with shutters.

Bathroom was nice although after taking a shower (behind a curtain = good for the two :-) the whole floor was wet.

TV-set was small (I almost didn't use it!) and satellite TV didn't offer neither my favourite English channels: Weather Channel and Fox News nor Travel Channel but CNN Europe (not my favourite :-).

There were no information leaflets on the hotel, Valeggio and environs in the room.

Unique Quality: WHAT DISTURBED ME A LITTLE BIT
1. No internet connection in a hotel. Well, I needed it not for VT (can you believe?) but to check weather around (and plan wiser day trips this way) and to e-mail at least to Umer (Pakistaniguy) whom I promised to pick up from Peschiera del Garda railway station at... unspecified time about noon on Saturday.
2. Not enough number of well located sockets (one didn't work) for my chargers, cell phones and a laptop. I had to switch TV-set off to use/charge my laptop (upload pictures from camera). Well, I forgot 1-3 plug adapter.

PRICE
We paid 70 € per double room per night, surely with breakfast (capuccino per request included), parking and all taxes included, add three small botles of mineral water in refrigerator each day. We got to know that Cacciatore offers prices lower than nearby famous historical cities (Mantova, Verona - one VT-er paid 113 € per single room there) and than many hotels around Lake Garda. To be honest it would be very lot in... Poland, my country. For 350 € we paid for 5 nights quite many families must survive a month in Poland. And surely I would give more (= better hotel in such non-touristy location) for that money in Poland.

OTHERS PROS
The room was perfectly cleaned everyday by invisible hotel staff and it fragranced pretty whenever we came back from day trips.

The small window of our room was my exit... to the roof of the hotel where I surely had to take pictures of the castle and Valeggio and wher I could smoke cigarettes :-). Warning for smokers: smoking was forbidden inside a hotel.

• Opinion of Price: about average
• Address: Via Goito n. 31; 37067 Valeggio sul Mincio (VR), Italy
• Phone: (+45) 795 0500; (+45) 795 0127
• Related to: Family Travel, Backpacking, Road Trip
• Written May 18, 2005

HOTEL CACCIATORE

---

Was this review helpful?

• sachara
• Reviews: 3875

User Rating

Helpfulness

Albergo Ristorante Cacciatore: Shady garden

Besides a huge dinnerhall which could house all the 80 VT-ers at the welcome-dnner and the more cosy bar and breakfast room, the hotel has a lovely shady innercourt and garden.

Here we could meet each other after visits to the different attrractions and gather before leaving to the next VT events, like lunch and saturday evening party.
It was a lovely place to relax and to chat with old and new VT-friends.

• Opinion of Price: about average
• Address: Via Goito 31, Vallegio sul Mincio
• Phone: 045 7950500
• Website: www.alcacciatore.net
• Written May 14, 2005

shady garden

---

Was this review helpful?