Great hotel, just a short walk from Malzesine centrum, beautiful pool and garden, peaceful and relaxing. Kristina and Arto from Finland

We stayed here for 4 nights in June, having read the reviews on here I was a little concerned but was pleasantly surprised.

The hotel is set slightly back from the busy main road so is quieter than some others, the pool was large with plenty of beds around, pretty well kept gardens surrounding the hotel, rooms were very basic...akin to an Ibis hotel room and the double room we booked was actually a twin however it was spotlessly clean, as was the bathroom and the balcony. The hotel breakfast is pretty good too as long as you get down there before 9am otherwise there was nothing left.

Really had no complaints other than the room being basic.

We were really disappointed with the Hotel Catullo.

The double deluxe room had twin beds, orange walls, pink curtains, green furniture, blue bedspreads and a small, red bathroom. Whilst other hotels had balconies covered with colourful flowers we had plastic furniture and metal bars.

There was no shampoo or soap. There were no instructions on how to operate the a/c or use the WIFI advertised on the website and we couldn't get either to work. The continental breakfast did not include fresh fruit, coissants or pastries.

We also retuned one evening to find someone had been onto the balcony and moved things around. Creepy!

Another evening the owner told us to be quiet as we chatted whilst walkeing up the stairs. As a middle aged couple returning from watching the Eurovision Song Contest we thought this was a bit over the top and it made us feel uncomfortable and unwelcome.

The hotel has large, quiet gardens but they were not very well kept and lacked the flowers that were everywhere else in Lake Garda. The hotel is in a good location but please don't spoil a trip to beautiful Lake Garda by staying at the Hotel Catullo - even if it does have a swimming pool.

I travelled to Malcesine for a friends wedding earlier this year (along with Jobo 1881 - review below) to celebrate a friends wedding. We decided to stay at the Hotel Catullo as the bride and groom were staying there and it was also one of only a few hotels in the town with a pool. Upon arrival we were told that our booking "had been lost", unsurprisingly, the paid deposit remained very much found. The manager, however, informed us that he had arranged for us to stay at a nearby hotel and that the stay would be complimentary. Lovely we thought. He even said we could use the pool and still have breakfast. Even better. Imagine my surprise then, when at midnight the day before we are due to come home, there is a note pinned to our door telling us to go to the Hotel Catullo to pay the bill before we catch the trasfer bus to the airport. The next day we went to see the manager who insisted that he hadnt told us he would pay for our stay. After a VERY long discussion he eventually just turned his back on us....literally!! He wouldn't tell us what time the transfer bus was arriving so we had to wait at the bus depot and hope for the best! I have travelled around the world and visited Italy a number of times before but I have honestly never met anyone in the service industry quite so rude, arrogant and unhelpful in all my life! He also made other members of the group that did stay there unwelcome and also uncomfortable at times, telling one that he would never let a british wedding party stay there again!! The owner of the other hotel was so welcoming, we wished we had booked there from the start. Please do not give this man your money!