Self-catering apartment on the Lake of Garda - Apartment 228
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Unit 228 is a double bedroom apartment located on the first floor of the complex. It has a modern, well-equipped kitchen, two bathrooms, air conditioning and central heating, a double bed in the main room, two single beds in the smaller bedroom (additional single beds are available on request), a comfortable armchair, LCD TV, DVD/DivX Player and multimedia Hard Disk and two console systems. From its large windows overlooking the gorgeous park, through the trees, you can see the lake in the background. There's no balcony in this apartment. These self-catering quality apartments are in a gated complex surrounded by a luscious park. A private under passage will lead you directly to the lake front, on the stony beach. The condominium boasts a magnificent swimming pool overlooking the lake with a smaller one for kids, tennis courts and a pizzeria/snack bar. Garda really has something for everyone: from sun to affordable shopping, beautiful mountain scenery, warm water, from skiing in winter to wakeboarding, kite-surfing, windsurfing and rock-climbing in summer, children's amusement parks Gardaland and Canevaworld.Thanks to a steamer service you can reach all the towns around the lake.Served by three airports (Verona Brescia and Bergamo), daily low cost flights can be found from every part of the UK. When you stay on Lake of Garda public transport and road links make a day trip to Milan, Venice, Verona, Bologna or even Florence an easily achieved reality. San Vigilio 1, Euroresidence, Garda General Information, 2024 - Help There is a Reception desk in the foyer of your condominium (San Vigilio 1), which is where you may find Signora Carla Campagnolo, the governante (manager), in case of need. Carla is the person to turn to with any problems.. She works here every day 8:30 – 12:30 except Tuesdays (her day off). Her internal telephone number is 111; her office number from outside is *********** (045 needed even locally); For all these numbers, listed at the end of these notes, 0039 is needed if using a foreign mobile phone and you leave in the zero of the STD code. Please inform me if anything is not working properly in the apartment. I would also like to know if there is anything missing or in short supply which you think visitors would expect to find. I cannot possibly know if nobody tells me! The Apartment We hope everything is self-evident. If you have any questions about the apartment, please contact me. The blinds have electric motors, and therefore switches somewhere close by, which you hold down. Walking into town (or along the beach) As you go down towards the main entrance gates there is, on your left, an underpass signed Centro Città/al Lago for which you will have a key. It is not the most beautiful of things but it does prevent having to cross the road. Alternatively, go out of the main gate and cross by the crossing (TAKE CARE as not all drivers respect marked crossings). Once across the road turn left and walk along the side of the road for about 50m until you come to a small entrance to a cobbled path (before you reach the Hotel du Parc). This joins the underpass and leads to the lakeside where there is a small café with chairs and tables by the water’s edge. If you turn left you are heading into town, and you will pass another lakeside café in about 250m, while a right turn takes you immediately to a beach and to a really lovely walk to Punta San Vigilio. There is a very good supermarket in Costermano on the right (FAMILA) and beyond that at Grand’Affi an enormous complex of hypermarkets (food, furniture, electrical goods etc.). All these take cards. To reach FAMILA supermarket you drive back into town, turn left at the roundabout and continue straight up the road, round a few sharp bends and you will see it on the right, part of a modern shopping complex with plenty of parking. There are countless eating places! Our most memorable meals have been at Trattoria Enoteca al Graspo which is easy to find (near the roundabout at the Costermano junction). You are just asked if you want fish (the speciality) and, having said yes, you just sit back while dish after dish arrives (no choice!) with a wide variety of shell fish, sea and lake fish. There is also a meat menu. Local wine and bread comes in good quantities and the whole experience was 35 euros per head - although you won’t see any prices marked. Telephone and Internet This unit has fiber optics internet connection. Passwords can be found on the table. To use the telephone in the apartment, dial 0 for an outside line, then the international or national code. To phone another apartment, just dial its three-digit apartment number. There are four computers in the library (biblioteca) adjoining the Tourist Office (opening times at the end of these notes). Full of information and very helpful staff, the tourist office can be easily found by driving (walking) to Garda until you reach the small roundabout (where Tourist License / Licencia de turismo N °: 023036-LOC-00548&023036-LOC-00549