Casa Margherita - bike friendly

Nothing at all.

This is the worst holiday home we have ever stayed at. Please take your time reading our very elaborated and honest review, before wasting your money on this place. We do not wish for anyone else to endure what we have experienced… Casa Margarita is offered as a 4-person accommodation. However we have stayed there for 2 full weeks with 2 adults, 2 small children (a baby and a 2-year old) and 2 dogs. This was really tight altogether… The sleep couch they offer as a 2-person option is so firm, you could break a stone on it and furthermore it barely fits 1 average adult man. Although Verbania is a small town, the house is located very remote. There is no easy (walkable) access to shops or restaurants nearby, as the house is located on a mountain and can only be reached via a very steep slope. If you have a large car (like us, an Audi Q7), parking is difficult, and you have to maneuver several times on the incline to reach your parking spot. Upon arrival, we were welcomed by many air fresheners in the house. At first we didn’t give it much of a meaning. But apparently the owners tried to mask the already existing odour in the house. The smell became clearer slowly per day during our 2-week stay (some kind of unpleasant urine-like smell). At the end of our stay, the owners accused our dogs of causing this smell and unfairly fined us (they stole €200,- from our creditcards for this unfair accusation!!). Our dogs have never, but never, urinated inside the house. We have walked that very steep slope multiple times a day to walk our dogs down the hill at the park of the church (the nearest possibility to walk your dog). Our poor old dog with arthritis had to endure this multiple times a day during our 2-week stay of a continuing 32+ degrees EVERY day. All this because the so-called hiking-trail they advertise with, is closed due to the wooden stairs that are broken!!

location was perfect, very calm and beautiful.

the sofa cum bed was small for 2 adults so we requested an extra bed but it was not so comfortable, it would have been better as for the rest everything was excellent.