Lake Garda

[LOU LOU DISNEY]

Originally Posted by porridge

Some places you could do 2 towns in a day. Gardaland is really close to peschiera, and the other two parks are too. The buses are easy, as long as you look at the timetable beforehand (ditto for the ferries). The mistake we made, was not checking out the bus times after our day at the water park. We stayed until it closed, and needed dinner. No restaurants nearby (apart from an overpriced show/restaurant next door). We’d just missed the bus, and it was an hour until the next one. The taxi was €25 for a ten minute journey!

We did the torbole and limone in a day, and you could do Bardolino and Garda in a day (walk between them). I’d also recommend ‘the explosion of joy’ land train - it does a circular trip from bardolino (near the water) - €5 each. Great fun! Also the mini golf course (opposite the tourist info centre there) is fun and cheap.

The cable car is lovely. It was cloudy when we reached the top (check weather before you go). The whole holiday was amazing. We’d never been to Italy before either, and don’t speak Italian, but menus are in English and German (lots of Germans around). Also, the ice creams are amazing - so many flavours. It’s not a cheap holiday, but we’d go back in a heartbeat. The sunsets were so beautiful, and also gardaland had fireworks which you could see from the south of the lake.

I’m sure you’ll have a lovely time! We are super-grateful to have been able to go last year. I really hope things get better soon x

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Great to hear about the menus. Is English spoken ok? As we don’t have any Italian at all...need to brush up on a few phrases!