Lake Garda Holidays

Lake Garda is a popular destination for holidaymakers from all over Europe. Germans, Austrians and Dutch are especially drawn to the combination of lakes, mountains, Italian cuisine and sunshine. But since this site is in English, the subject of "Holidays to Lake Garda" will relate mainly to those visiting from the UK and Eire.

Package Holidays to Lake Garda

Organised breaks, termed 'package holidays' in the UK and Eire, cover a wide range of niches, from summer sun beach vacations, holidays including long-haul flights to distant destinations and city breaks. Holidays which feature Lake Garda fall into the speciality niche of 'lakes and mountains holidays' and, although some of the main travel companies offer these types of holidays, there are also specialist tour operators.

Inghams Package Holidays to Lake Garda

One of the biggest specialists in this niche is Inghams, who offer holidays in the following resorts: Bardolino, Desenzano, Garda, Gardone Riviera, Limone, Maderno, Malcesine, Peschiera, Riva del Garda, Salò, and Sirmione.

Flights are to Verona on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

TUI Package Holidays to Lake Garda

Thomson Holidays and well-known lakes and mountain specialists Crystal Holidays are both now owned by the European travel giant TUI. TUI offers holidays on Lake Garda in the following resorts: Bardolino, Desenzano, Garda, Gardone Riviera, Limone, Maderno, Malcesine, Peschiera, Riva del Garda, Sirmione, Torbole and Torri del Benaco.

TUI flights are also to Verona on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Jet2Holidays Package Holidays to Lake Garda

Jet2Holidays is the package arm of flight operator Jet2 and they have a wide selection of destinations on the lake. They offer holidays in Bardolino, Desenzano, Garda, Gardone Riviera, Lazise, Nago, Limone, Maderno, Malcesine, Peschiera, Riva del Garda, San Felice del Benaco, and Sirmione.

Once again, their flights are to Verona Airport on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

A view of the northern end of Lake Garda
View over the town of Garda at the southern end of the lake
Image by Bernd Hildebrandt

Independent Holidays

The availability of flights to the smaller airports and the proliferation of airlines has made it far easier for independent holidays to Lake Garda to be booked online.

Ryanair currently have flights from the UK going to the following airports relevant to Lake Garda: Bergamo (which they call Milan-Bergamo) and Treviso (which they call Venice-Treviso). Verona is available from Brussels Airport.

Easyjet fly to the following destinations in northern Italy: Milan (both airports), Venice and Verona.

British Airways have a regular scheduled flight to Verona and many other airlines have scheduled services to either of the Milan airports or to Venice.

Look at the airport websites on our Lake Garda Travel page to see whether there are special airport transfers available to a chosen resort. Otherwise the best option is probably to contact the accommodation that you are looking at to see what they recommend (there are good public transport options available - again see the travel page for more details).

Many of the hotels around Lake Garda are members of one of the online booking sites. Each of the indidivual resorts covered (see list on the right) has a full list of five- to three-star hotels (and unlike other sites the list is not made up of properties who paid money for being featured!) and a map of the resort showing where the hotels are located.