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Reviews of Hotel Boston

3 out of 5
Hotel Boston
Viale Duchessa Di Genova 13, Stresa, VB

Reviews

7.8

Good

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Rating 8 - Good. 80 out of 176 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 38 out of 176 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 8 out of 176 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 6 out of 176 reviews" "

8.4/10

Cleanliness

8.0/10

Staff & service

7.0/10

Amenities

7.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Catherine

Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Gail

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
6 day stay in Stresa.
Well we are on a 6 week tour on our motorcycle and we chose our hotels as we go from place to place. We were in Brig Switzerland when we chose the Hotel Boston Stresa what a great find this was the place is really nicely decorated very clean and bright. The staff are very helpful and nothing seems to much trouble if you need something. The bedrooms are well appointed and of a good size with balconies. We didn't have breakfast here as we are retired and to be honest we don't normally get up until 9-30 ISH so we normally eat around 11am. The hotel has underground parking which for us was great as we are touring on our motorcycle it costs 8 euros a day and it's safe and secure. The hotel is 2 mins walk from the lake front of Maggiore and 10 mins walk into the main shopping and eating areas. You can get ferries to the islands on the lake and there are plenty of places to eat out lakeside. The hotel is also only 10 mins walk from the railway station and a Conad Supermarket so all in all this is a great place to stay.We will recommend this to our friends and family if they come to Italy. We had a great time here and would certainly stay here again if coming to Maggiore.
Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

GERALDINE

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023
Response from HBoston on Aug 13, 2023
Grazie per la sua recensione.Buona giornata

10/10 Excellent

Keith

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great hotel
Lovely hotel. Staff lovely Great location. Would have spent longer
Stayed 2 nights in May 2023
Response from HB on Jun 21, 2023
Thank you so much for your kind review!

6/10 Okay

Deborah

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Badly let down
We stayed for 3 nights. The welcome was warm and the staff were very nice. The room was clean and spacious and we were fortunate to have a corner room with a view of the lake. Breakfast was good. However, for 2 of our 3 days there was no hot water in the bathroom so we couldn’t shower, the internet connection is intermittent and the hotel doesn’t provide an iron and ironing board (even via housekeeping). There are no yea-making facilities in the room so we couldn’t even boil a kettle for hot water in the sink. On each day were assured that the water was fixed shortly after we left to go out for the day (around 9-10am, so not late). The location is good if you don't want to pay the silly prices for lake-front property, but the issues with the basics let this hotel down quite badly. We weren’t offered a discount for the severe inconvenience.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

melanie

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Charming well located super friendly staff
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2022

8/10 Good

Rebecca

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

David

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Friendly, helpful staff. Good breakfast.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Gabriella

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in May 2022
Response from Hotel Boston on Jun 12, 2022
Grazie molte per la bella recensione, è un piacere lavorare con ospiti come voi!

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Convenient location and clean. Good value for the money.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

Amelia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Marianne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018
Response from Hotel Boston on Sep 26, 2018
Thank you fro your review! we are so happy.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good hotel close to the centre of Stresa
Only problem that I experienced was the availability of tables for breakfast. Certain tables were reserved for no apparent reason and it was a struggle to find a table which was free to use.
Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2018
Response from Hotel Boston on Aug 16, 2018
Thank you for your review. Enjoy your summer.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Good value
Friendly helpful staff, great view, comfortable room,very clean
Stayed 4 nights in May 2018
Response from Hotel Boston on May 28, 2018
Thank You for your review and your staying in our family run Hotel.

10/10 Excellent

Anita

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice hotel short walk from Train station
Very friendly service. Easy to find and a short walk from the train station. Rooms are small but we had a balcony. Very nice shower and very nice breakfast. Wifi works well.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2017

6/10 Okay

Jordan, Chicago, IL

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Fine for one night
The room was fine for a night. The beds were comfortable enough, but the wifi did not work in the room. The air conditioning worked, which was nice because the windows do not have screens on them.

8/10 Good

Derek

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Good Value Hotel Clean and Comfortable
Good location set back one road from the lake where the hotels are 4 and 5 star. Ask for a room with a balcony and lake view. Breakfast is OK if nothing exciting and the wi fi didnt work in the bedroom. Comfortable 6 ft bed (two twins pushed together) Stresa is the perfect location for a stay at Lake Maggiore

8/10 Good

Mark

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good Hotel, Good Location
If approaching by car, do so from the East as it's much easier. When you enter the traffic restricted zone, take note of the time, you'll have 24-hours parking from then. Drop your bags off at the Hotel and get a parking ticket from the hotel. The parking offered by the Hotel can be used within the white lines (blue is pay and display, yellow is for residents). Parking is a nightmare, you'll have to drive round several times to find a space. Display the ticket on the dashboard, and enjoy! The Hotel is very well located, and is suprisingly quiet. Rooms are nicely decorated, a decent size, and our bathroom/shower was the best of all the hotels we stayed in. Breakfast nicely presented (pastries, meats, cheese etc.), and good quality. Would stay again!

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Convenient hotel
Nothing bad but nothing great either about this hotel. No late checkout and if they keep your bags after you have checked out, these are just left in the lobby for anyone to take. Breakfast buffet is OK a few croissants, bacon, ham, cereal, juice etc

6/10 Okay

Ahmed, Luzern, Switzerland

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Good value for money
Good location, clean facilities, friendly staff, very quick checkin and checkout. Room was a bit small for a single person, and walls a bit thin. I would definitely stay there again, but with a double bed.

6/10 Okay

Sooze, Fife

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent location
Very close to the lake and only a few minutes walk from the centre of town. All staff at the hotel were very pleasant and helpful (except one young girl who didn't seem to want to be there). I would say the positive points outweigh any negatives. Don't expect lots of bars as there tend to be lots of restaurants rather than our type of pubs. All staff seem to be very friendly and keen to give advice on types of wine etc. If you go out at the right time you get little tasters of foccacia, pizza, sandwiches etc which were always of great quality. No wild nights out, more of a relaxing holiday. Absolutely spectacular scenery, so many photo opportunities

4/10 Poor

Graeme

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disappointing
Very disappointed with this hotel. The room was extremely small with 2 suitcases you couldn't move in the room. The walls were super thin. We could hear entire conversations on either side of our room and whatever TV show was on. Breakfast was poor, stale bread, not much choice. The bathroom was renovated which was good however the towels were old and thin. On the positive side the location was excellent near the station, ferry terminal and town.

6/10 Okay

Paul, Bromley

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Room with nice view of lake
We stayed here for one night. We thought the room was a little on the small size but otherwise it was fine and was in a convenient location for central Stress which was about a 10-12 min walk away. We didn't have the breakfast.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The hotel staff were very friendly and welcoming. The staff was also helpful and provided directions as needed.

8/10 Good

Nicola, Devon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfectly located, friendly hotel
Stayed with our 22 month old for 3 nights. Room had a double and two single beds. Stayed in late July so it was 30+ degrees but rooms are well air conditioned and very clean. Good shutters on the windows so room was properly dark. Easy to reach - at the bottom of the road down from the railway station and just one block back from the lake with an easy 5 min walk to the town centre. A nice play park en route to town for little ones. The staff were very friendly and accommodating - treated us very well, and were even more attentive of the individual families/guests staying with them on the days when a coach party was in. Tables had been reserved for us at breakfast and we were checked on regularly. Nice continental breakfast, free wifi with a code and a good shower.

8/10 Good

Ray, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Pleasant hotel, close to lake, shops, restaurants
Stayed 5 nights in early May. Friendly welcome, very clean and comfortable room with balcony. Good breakfast including cereals, fruit, cold meats, cheese and boiled eggs. Recommended.

8/10 Good

Jean, Seattle, WA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice Surprise
I selected this hotel for our stay in Stesa as the location where we would spend less money. We really liked this hotel value & location. We easily walked from the train station and enjoyed our balcony view of Isola Bella from the 4th (I think) floor. The balcony was very small, but we could sit in the two chairs after exploring the area each day. The hotel staff were very kind to open the breakfast area early on the morning that we needed to head back to the train station. Loved the islands, strolling in Stresa, and exploring the pedestrian friendly shopping/restaurant area! Hope to return to Stresa.

8/10 Good

Alan, Essex, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Family-owned hotel 200 yards from the lake
A pleasant hotel, family-run and perfectly placed with Lake Maggiore less than two minutes' walk away and the town centre less than five minutes. Breakfast was adequate but the hotel does no other food. Our beds were not comfortable.

6/10 Okay

Lincoln, Singapore

Liked: Cleanliness
Elevator Maintenance timing!?!
With checkout at 11am, why would you do your single elevator's maintenance at 10:30am!?!

6/10 Okay

Lexie12, Victoria, aust

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Friendly service
Didn't like my bed up against a wall

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Pleasant Stay at Hotel Boston
Stayed a week at this nice, quiet, and clean hotel. No frills but our small room on top floor had a balcony with lake view and town and we had an included breakfast each day and could walk 2 blocks to town for lunch and dinner.

8/10 Good

IHS, NEW YORK N.Y.

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
good location
Quiet street halfway between rail line and highway. Good air conditioning . Very clean. Helpful staff.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
A short walk from the train station
Unfortunately when we arrived we were given a room that had not been made up. We were then given a room a floor higher and nicer than the original room. The hotel is a 5 minute walk from the train station and the same distance to the lake. Next time I would probably book a hotel on the lake as they are just as convenient for walking from the train station.

8/10 Good

Peter Feldman, New Yprk City

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
This is a nice hotel

8/10 Good

Dave, Ottawa, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Convenient, Economical, Friendly
We spent three nights at this hotel in September. We booked a lake view room, which is smaller because it's in the attic (has a small balcony), but affords a view to the lake and mountains (the hotel is a block from the lakefront and lower level rooms face a building across the street. Staff were very friendly and helpful. The hotel is located just downhill from the train station, and is an easy stroll from the town center and the ferry dock. The shower was small, but everything was clean and worked great. Breakfast and Wi-Fi included in rate.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location, very quiet and clean.
We got a really good last minute deal and it was worth every penny. The rooms are relatively modern, have aircon and are clean. The location is in between the train station and the beach - probably 2 mins walk from each in either direction, and then 2 mins walk to the town center.

8/10 Good

Alice, eastbourne, uk

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good value, great location
A great little hotel, round the corner from the train station & only 1 block/road back from the lake front, but in a quiet location. 5 minutes walk from the old town, ferry dock and tourist information. Staff were very friendly and helpful. Room was small, but this didn't bother us.

2/10 Terrible

Mark, surrey england

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Not a good choice to experience the lake and town
Probably the worst 3 star hotel I have stayed in.The first impressions I got that this was not a good choice even down to the flower arrangement (dead flowers in a glass).Everthing was old and dated and once you got your keys the lift was very slow in coming and very small.The lake view room had limited storage and was cramped,also lacked a fridge.The cleaning was basic and empty beer bottles were left on the balcony of our sons room for the duration of our stay.The bathroom for anybody over six foot and 16 stone was a challenge especially the shower cubical,and the towels were hard and scratchy.The breakfast was basic but adequate.We stayed here as we were attending a family wedding.Other members of our family stayed in far superior hotels that were 4 star how this hotel has 3 stars beggars belief I would not recommend this hotel as you can get much better value at booking a 4 star front line view of the lake with swimming pool,and resturant and bars
Hallway
Flower arrangement
To small to move

8/10 Good

MR, Dallas Texas

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Comfortable room in beautiful town
Very close to train station and about 5 to 10 minute walk to town and dock for ferries. Bathroom had no shelf of any kind which was difficult to manage. Nice view of lake from small deck. staff were very friendly and helpful

10/10 Excellent

TOM AND DIANA, FLORIDA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
OUTSTANDING LODGING NEAR LAKE AND HIGH END HOTELS
WE WOULD STAY AT HOTEL BOSTON AGAIN AND RECOMMEND IT TO OTHERS

8/10 Good

Jen, Oswestry, Shropshire, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good hotel for exploring Stresa and Lake Maggiore
Relatively central to Stresa just a 5 minute walk to the main square. Rooms are clean and comfortable. We had one with a balcony. Breakfast was not great - not much choice of food and breakfast rom not cleared promptly or meat or cheese replenished. Reception staff friendly and helpful.

8/10 Good

Vladimir, Virginia, USA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Close to Milan Cental train station
Perfect location to visit lakes. You can make a day trip on the train to Como and Maggiore. Good breakfast from 7 to11. Good value.

10/10 Excellent

Scott, Manchester

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely hotel
Brilliant hotel, great view (if lake view selected) decent spread for breakfast. Clean hotel, friendly staff.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Good location to railway station.
It was good. WiFi did not work however. We were told it was broken.

10/10 Excellent

Eric M.

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Close to all - clean, basic European hotel
Attended a friend's wedding celebration and booked this hotel because it was more cost effective than others in Stresa. Reception folks were polite and helpful. Rooms were basic but clean - they met are needs. A/C worked great. Light street traffic was there but did not bother us. No pool or workout facilities but the town of Stresa is easy to go for a run along the lake. Breakfast was typical Continental with great service.

10/10 Excellent

I. Mitchell

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Not facing water but convenient to the water.
Pleased with staff and amenities.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Small but good
The room was very small, but clean and had a lovely view of the lake. There was a small balcony where we could sit, which helped with space being at a premium in the room. The hotel was a short walk to the lake front, and an easy walk to the old part of town where restaurants, etc. were. The family who runs the hotel all speak several languages fluently, which is a big help, and they recommended a very good and reasonable restaurant. Breakfast was ordinary but good. I would definitely go back here again. A real find.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness
Hotel Boston close to train station and lake
If we were to stay there again it would have to be in a superior room with a balcony as the standard room we had was very basic at the back of the hotel looking onto rubbish bins. But overall we got what we paid for.