Lake Garda apartments and villas, Lake Garda hotels plus car hire in Italy, tourist information and more.

Lake Garda, which is often referred to as Garda Lake, is the largest Lake in Italy and is situated midway between Venice and Milan. A Lake Garda holiday is a very special experience. 

Lake Garda holidays offer an amazing selection of wonderful places to stay including Garda Lake Hotels at towns and villages around the lake plus Garda Lake apartments and Garda Lake Villas, mainly situated in the South of the Region. There are also Residences, which are like apartment hotels and some very good Lake Garda Camp Sites.

Garda is served by a number of different airports and airlines in the region including Ryanair, Easyjet and Jet2.

Lake Garda and the towns around the shoreline are outstandingly beautiful and picturesque, offering a visitor an amazing choice of places to see and things to do. From incredibly picturesque towns such as Sirmione, Lazise or Salo, which can be visited by road or by paddle steamer, to golf courses, sailing, cycling and water sports, not to mention the very Italian Theme parks, Gardaland and Movie Studios Park and the waterpark Acqua Paradise Park.

Lake Garda is divided into four distinct areas each with its own distinctive ambience, attractions and individuality. Lake Garda has many surprises. You can see all of the lakeside towns, Lake Garda apartments, Garda Lake hotels as well as many of the attractions by clicking on one of the main tabs or clicking on the appropriate box above.

South East Lake Garda is for families and features the Themeparks, the Zoo, museums as well as the wonderfully attractive towns of Garda, Bardolino, Lazise and Sirmione. With Sirmione also having two Health Spas and its own Roman Villa.
See Lazise apartments, Bardolino apartments, Bardolino hotels, Sirmione apartments, Sirmione hotels and Peschiera apartments and Peschiera hotels

The South West is more lively around Desenzano, yet incredibly tranquil around San Felice, Salo and at Winston Churchill's famous holiday resort Gardone Riviera. There is also some excellent outlet shopping in this region.
See Desenzano apartments, Desenzano hotels, Moniga apartments, Moniga hotels, Salo apartments, Salo hotels and Gardone Riviera hotels.

North East Lake Garda is more mountainous and there is a great cable car to the top of the mountain at Malcesine, all of the sailing and windsurfing takes place at Torbole and Riva with Riva also offering some excellent shopping.
See Riva apartments , Riva hotels and Malcesine hotels.

Finally the North West of Lake Garda is mountainous with the mountains reaching right down to the lakeside at the picturesque town of Limone. With Gargnano and Toscolano-Maderno also being attractive little towns, with lovely nature parks nearby. See Limone hotels, Gargnano and Toscolano-Maderno hotels.

With budget air travel increasing in popularity and Ryanair, Easy Jet and Jet 2 all flying into airports around Lake Garda, more and more people are now choosing to book their own flights as well as their self catering accommodation, Lake Garda hotels and Lake Garda car hire and having a great Lake Garda holiday at a much lesser cost than with a package holiday. So just checkout Lake Garda Exclusively and choose what you would like to build your perfect holiday, whether that is for a family holiday at the Italian Lakes, a Lake Garda apartment, a Lake Garda Hotel or a Last Minute hotel, a visit to a Spa or just simply looking for Lake Garda tourist information. The site has been written by people who have been to Lake Garda, who know it and appreciated what they saw!

Giving you a choice of Lake Garda Holiday Rental Properties

Simply send us your holiday dates by e-mail and we'll let you know what Lake Garda accommodation is available.

Locating a Lake Garda Property to Purchase

We feature a selection of Lake Garda properties for sale and new properties are coming online each week. We deal with a number of selected English speaking Lake Garda estate agents and do not charge a commission or fee for our service. Please just send us an indication of what type of property you would like to buy and at which Lake Garda town if you have a preference and you will receive a list of available Lake Garda villas and apartments with prices from our estate agents around Lake Garda.

As an alternative to full-ownership of a Lake Garda villa or apartment, you may wish to buy a share of a holiday property which you can visit each year, please click on the following Italian time share link for more information. Opportunities for co-ownership of many properties are available, which range from traditional villas to apartments, all within luxurious time share resorts around the world. A number of properties in Italy are featured on this site, which you can check regularly for properties situated on or near Lake Garda.

Making a Booking

You want to know that your payments are secure. When you make a booking for car rental, a hotel, travel insurance or airport car parking, payment is made online via a well established third party company such as Auto Europe or Expedia, who operate that service and your money is accepted subject to the security offered by that company's individual terms of service. All of our partner companies are established and respected names within the travel industry. When booking an apartment, an initial deposit is paid which includes this company's booking fee, this deposit is held in a dedicated account and not accessed by the company until after you return from your holiday. A second payment is made direct to the apartment provider in Italy and the final (largest) payment is made when you arrive in Italy for your holiday. In addition, if you pay by credit card, your payments will also be guaranteed by your credit card provider according to their individual terms and conditions.

Lake Garda Airports

Lake Garda is reached via six main airports in Northern Italy served by many budget, scheduled and charter airlines including Ryanair, Easyjet, Jet 2 and British Airways.

• Verona Catullo Airport is about 25 minutes away by car/taxi and is served by scheduled and charter airlines including British Airways.
• Verona Brescia Airport (Ryanair) is 50 minutes by car
• Milan Bergamo Airport (Ryanair, Jet 2) is 60-90 minutes by car
• Milan Linate Airport (Ryanair) is about 2 hours by car
• Venice Marco Polo Airport (Easyjet) is about 90-120 minutes by car
• Venice Treviso Airport (Ryanair) is two to two and a half hours by car

For all of the airports apart from Verona Catullo, our advice would be to rent a car or use an airport transfer service as taxis are expensive for journeys over an hour in length. Lake Garda Exclusively can organise airport transfers to Sirmione, Bardolino, Pacengo, Cola and Lazise when a Garda Lake apartment is booked. But for upwards of four people our advice would be to consider renting a car. The journey is very straightforward for most of the airports other than from Venice Treviso which requires a small degree of map reading or Tom-Tom! If you are staying overnight close to an airport, please checkout our Italian Airport Hotels.

Driving in Northern Italy

Contrary to the Italian stereotype, once you have a hire car driving in Northern Italy is very well mannered and remarkably easy. In fact, it is considerably less aggressive than driving in the UK. (It does help to remember to drive on the right though!). Click Here for Lake Garda car hire quotations.

Trains in Italy

Trains are generally inexpensive and reliable in Italy. Some guests do travel to Lake Garda by train from the UK, but this is a long journey! The two main railway stations are Peschiera and Desenzano. Also checkout Trenitalia, the Italian National railway service. You can even travel by motorail to Verona or Bolsano from Dusseldorf with the German railway system DB.

Holiday Partners Around the Wold

If you are looking for holiday elsewhere in the world, including property purchases you might like to try our useful links page. If you want to link to our site or discuss a reciprocal link to another relevant travel or property sales site, please Contact Us.

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