Lovely town. Great location. Nice views. Agreeable host.

Fredrico’s place was fabulous for our group of 6 friends. The easy walk to the ferry or the bus is perfect and Cernobbio is so charming! Make sure to ask for help to get a taxi to and from the train, Fredrico really came through for us with this, seeing the ferry is not always on time and the lines can be long in Como. We loved every minute of our 5 night stay, highly recommend! Mary Ellen

We stayed here with our family of six and had an amazing time! Federico was very responsive and happy to help during our stay - he arranged a Taxi to take us to Monza for a concert one evening and offered suggestions for activities/restaurants in the area. The flat’s veranda is the real star of the show and was our favorite place to start and and our days. Some of the bedrooms were unconventional but all were comfortable, private, had access to the veranda, and many with a nice view! The lifts to the unit are tiny but work perfectly fine for 2-3 people. The town of Cernobbio offers great access to Como and the ferry system - Bellagio is a 2 hour ferry ride unless you take the fast ferry from Como (15 min ferry ride). There’s a decent amount of local shops and restaurants to explore as well as hikes and gardens. During our stay in July there were also several community activities and a fireworks display on the Lake.

This property is the entire 5 floor of a building on a slightly elevated location in Cernobbio, which is a 10 minute ferry ride from the town on Como. Cernobbio is very charming with some nice restaurants, cafes, and a beautiful lake front area and access to some hiking trails that take you into the surrounding hills. The owner Federico was always responsive and helpful from booking through arrival. He arranged car service for us from and to the train station and had his assistant Rosi meet us at the property and show us around. Rosi was so sweet and charming and even helped us with restaurant advice a couple days into our stay. Now, onto the property itself. It’s very large. There are three proper bedrooms with two more rooms that have a single bed in each. There is a very nice kitchen with a high end gas stove and refrigerator. Generally, Italy doesn’t have the best AC, but this place has 4 separate units. The place takes up the entire fifth floor with a large wrap around balcony and you can see a sizable sliver of the lake from one side. It’s very secure (key to enter the building gate, then the building and another key for the apartment). But all of Cernobbio is so safe that it almost doesn’t matter. There are two small elevators (one with 550lb max and another with 370lb max). It definitely wasn’t built in then last 10 years but that’s pretty typical for lake Como but the building, as well as this unit, is very well maintained.

Federico was a GREAT host and very responsive! The location was perfect for a lovely short walk to town. The home was exceptionally spacious and had exceptional 360 views of Cernobbio. We liked the gated parking and garage. It was a great experience and happy we found this location. Kimberly

We loved the location, the views from the apartment, and the space. We were even treated to an amazing fireworks display from Villa D'Este on the Saturday evening. The apartment is a few minutes walk from the ferry terminal and once we had figured out that you can book tickets online and had our PPF2 masks (which only seem to be required for boarding and then can be removed!) we really enjoyed travelling around the lake by ferry. We also hired a boat in Cernobbio a couple of times which was the highlight of the trip for our teenagers. We stayed for 8 nights during a heat wave and were delighted that the air conditioning was very effective. The apartment is very spacious, and the kitchen was mainly fairly well equipped but I think it and the apartment in general could do with someone going round and removing some of the things that aren't needed including a couple of the more spooky portraits. It would also really help with parking if the cupboard in the garage was removed. (In general its much easier to drive in a smaller car in this part of Italy but we had driven from the UK so that wasnt an option.)

I’ve never stayed in a place where the reviews were so off from reality. If I could sum this place up in one word, it would be spooky. It’s really really old. It’s not beautiful antiques, it’s old spooky furniture and paintings everywhere that look like they haven’t been moved in two hundred years. I get that it’s Italy and that things are always older there, but I’m literally writing this from another VRBO in a far more remote location of Italy that doesn’t feel nearly as old and non functioning as this place did. This is a three bedroom apartment with several tiny little spooky rooms that either serve no purpose, or that have a cot thrown in them and then are counted as a bedroom. The manager was not the super friendly guy in the reviews and only showed up the last day to collect the very unusual cash payment that you have to pay him directly. I’ve stayed on lake Como before and paid the tourist tax in cash so that’s to be expected. 32 euros for a family of four for four nights. I had to pay 232 euros for four nights in cash on top of the price of the VRBO. I’ve stayed all over Italy and the world and never had to pay a large cash payment like that. Take that into account when you look at the price that VRBO is charging you because it’s on top of that. I could go on and on about the issues with this apartment but I will just add this last thing. I have absolutely never been to a rented house or apartment with less necessities provided. No soap, no paper towels, no water, very few towels, no soap for washer, no milk for coffee. Most places in this price range at least provide something to get you started. Imagine showing up fairly late after a long day of traveling and realizing you have nothing at all in the apartment. The place I’m staying now for example had wine, bread, soap, milk and many other things that one may need, and it cost two hundred less a night! I don’t expect all of that but at least leave the basics. I hate to leave such a bad review but if someone had done that for me, I wouldn’t have spent so much staying in such a disappointing apartment.

Great property!!! Beautiful views, will definitely stay here again!! Frederico was extremely helpful and accommodating when our plans took a detour.