This is not your typical chain-styled hotel. It is an old structure with character, but has very nice new bathrooms (just don't look at the mold on the smoke detector in room 210). The rooms are of nice size and clean. Could use new carpets and bettter pillows. The grounds are very nice, and they have enough parking for a small mall. It was a great price, too! We had just driven down from Switzerland, so didn't take time to explore the area much.

We stayed here for 5 nights in September and I think we, and my parents who we travelled with were the only people staying in the hotel, apart from on the Saturday night when there was a wedding.There were more staff than guests, no atmosphere and nothing to do in the hotel. The bar was not open any of the nights we were there, even the night of the wedding. We had breakfast in the hotel the first morning and none of the food was worth talking about, and the cost was €10 per person. Parking, in an empty car park was €5 per night, a joke. The staff were friendly and couldn't complain about them. In terms of location you could not stay here without a car, it is about 10 mins from Lake Varese and about half an hour from Maggiore so not a good base. The rooms and the hotel are nice, but would not recommend it to anyone based on lack of people/atmosphere and location.

Arriving here alone on a rainy August night, I immediately realized I must be rather alone in the hotel: the whole parking lot was empty more or less. The venue is amazing and one can only immagine how difficult it is to maintain it all, and this shows: moisture is attacking the building on some places and also in the room, one could see the walls being affected by this and the paint falling off. But surroundings are beautiful and antique, probably more enjoyable on a sunny summer evening. Since the village seemed rather closed down I asked for something to eat. Restaurant was open and once I had left my luggage in my room and came downstairs the chef and the waiter were waiting for me in the lobby (confirmed my assumption of hotel not being fully booked!). The chef improvised a pasta dish for me and the waiter was very attentive and friendly.
The reason to why I felt like stepping into a horrormovie is that the hotel felt like it had been abandoned. I was all alone in the big halls, wind and rain outside and just 3 of the staff around.
Room was ok, but standard rather basic and decorations very classic. Surprised to find Etro bath products! Due to hot temperatures in the room (air condition not on when arriving to the room) I slept with open window. Big mistake since the mosquitos from the fountain outside loved me. At 1 am I was trying to figure out the air con and could then sleep better but the mosquitos were still keeping me awake.

All in all a funny experience due to staff being so nice but a bit strange being all alone in this huge house (with chapel beneath).

Stayed at this hotel as overnight stopover during our trip from Switzerland to Milan. And to tell the truth, this hotel has nothing to be excited about. While during better weather, it might be nice to spend some time walking outside in the large hotel park, but during our stay it was raining heavily, leaving us trapped in the hotel. And believe us, it is very, very sad to be in the hotel for a whole day - there's basically zero things you can do. Maybe due to hotel being mostly empty during our stay, but staff was terribly slow as well (but they did their best trying to be useful): for example, we went to restaurant and ordered some light dinner (pasta and gnocchi) - it took almost an hour to get our food served.
Rooms were also rather mediocre and showing signs of aging, common hotel areas looked used as well.
In overall - I think this hotel barely makes it to 4 star rating, would not recommend.