A nice hotel in a nice city with a friendly staff. But above all a wonderfull restaurant and terrace with typical meals from the regio for a good price. A nice surprise when you're on the road.

We stayed in this hotel while driving from the UK to Italy. Biasca is a bustling small modern town but in a wild mountain setting, which is why we chose it for an overnight stop. The hotel itself is part of the minotel chain and looks modern although we suspect that there is the core of an older hotel there somewhere. Rooms were pricey for what they were - small and oddly shaped. On the plus side they were very clean and the staff pleasant and helpful. But the real selling feauture of the hotel is it's bustling restaurant, which is popular with travellers, walkers and locals. It has an extensive menue for pizza and pasta to more rfeined cooking. When we were there it was the Autumn game season - so there was lts of hare and boar on the menu - all impeccably done.

As an aside, if you stopover in Biasca be sure to walk up to the ancient tower church abpve the town - the vies are spectacular and the rare medieval frescoes abonus for the effort.

Stayed at the Giardinetto as part of a hiking trip through Ticino. Compared to the four other Minotels at which we stayed, the Giardinetto was comfortable, but not the best. It was a bit modern looking - which I guess is fine considering that Biasca is comparatively a metropolis and not quite cozily situated on the mountainside, therefore the Swiss chalet-style would seem contrived. But the rooms were incredibly small, and I'm not one to be fussy about that. But they were clean, up to Swiss hotel standards, had a nice shower, satellite TV and a mini-bar, which is nice if you're desperately thirsty in the middle of the night. The hotel and its attached restaurant are both bustling. The restaurant was great and, quite frankly, one of the best places to eat in town. It has a huge outdoor patio and an extensive menu consisting mostly of pizza and pasta. Don't miss their ice cream (many locals stop in specially!). The hotel's breakfast was also the best out of all of the hotels I stayed at - very extensive selections of breads, pastries, yogurts, cereals, fruit, etc. Some street noise can be disturbing if the windows are open.