We have just returned home from a week at the Majestic Palace. It is a lovely hotel in a tranquil and peaceful spot. The village is about 20-25minutes walk downhill to Malcesine, it was difficult to walk back up a very steep hilll, but the bus service is very good costing just €1.oo per trip and always arrived on time. The hotel was very good but if I was booking again I would request a room in the annex as they are much superior at very little extra cost. Everywhere was spotlessly clean and staff were always on hand with helpful friendly advice. The food was excellent and free wine and beer throughout dinner and four lunches through the week. The only down point is you cannot reserve your table in the dining room but there is always one available. They do not however cater very well for tours returning late as they only serve a cold plate which is already prepared - so if you do not like the food on the plate you have no other choice, a cold buffet would be far better. There is also entertainment during the week but it finishes promptly at around midnight and we were never disturbed by noise of any kind at night.

We recently returned from a week at this hotel.It is set in very attractive grounds, the facilities are good, staff pleasant, and our superior room in a block away from the main building was spacious, comfortable and gave a lovely view across to the lake.The walk into town is manageable, whilst the hotel shuttle bus and the tourist bus are adequate alternatives if walking is not an option.So far so good.However we felt that the dining experience, as an earlier reviewer described it, was disappointing, particularly when set against the positives of this hotel.The restaurant is huge, and as there is no waiter service there is constant activity as guests move around and queue at times for food.Some of the dishes were good but others, including pizza and ice cream, were below the standard of that sampled in town or elsewhere around the lake.The dining room closed at 8.30pm, at which point cloths were laid over the drinks' machines, some of the food started to be removed and soon after the lights were dimmed. Whilst acknowledging that not everyone will agree with our comments, for us a relaxing evening meal in atmospheric surroundings at the end of the day is part of the enjoyment of the holiday and the Majestic Palace did not provide this. When booking we did not have the option of bed and breakfast only, which would have been our preference, but on two evenings we skipped dinner and had excellent meals in the town. Nevertheless, despite these concerns we had a lovely week in this beautiful part of Italy.

Just returned from a week at Majestic Palace. Food was excellent, always hot, good choice and plenty of it. Did not think much about the wine at dinner. Staff very friendly. Hotel clean. Evening entertainment was very amateurish. There is a lovely walk to town, go out of hotel turn left, about 20 yards on right hand side of road there is a pathway take this until you reach some steep steps on left hand side. Take these and you will eventually get to a road. Crossover and the lovely lakeside walk takes to straight into Malcesine - a good stroll about 25 mins. We did a 'further afield' trip to the Dolomites - a wonderful trip, but a head for heights is needed - you go up to about 10,000 feet.

4 of us returned from a week's holiday at the MP today. Everything was spot on ( apart from the bedmaking i.e. the top covers were straight but the bottom sheet was never smoothed out which was a trifle annoying and entailed " a do it yourself chore every night " ). The Hotel is spotless, food fantastic and very varied, the staff brilliant and so friendly. The walk to and from the Hotel into Malcesine was not as arduous as some previous reviews suggested, we found it only took 20 mins max and that was in monsoon conditions. There are plenty of quiet grassy spots to relax on a sunbed and plenty of activities ( i.e. Table Tennis, Crazy Golf, Giant Draughts & Chess etc etc.
We had superior rooms which were exceedingly spacious and well worth the small extra cost. Malcesine is an excellent centre for accessibility to other places on the Lake. All in all an excellent holiday and will return to the MP when we visit Lake Garda to see the places we didn't have time for.