Lazise, Lake Garda: Where to Stay, Campsites and Prices

Lazise is a town where the municipality rents you a pitch for a tent right inside the medieval walls. For two people a night in high season, that comes to €47.40. We slept two streets away the same week and paid €269. Both are Lazise in mid-August.

This article is about why we chose the more expensive option, when that makes sense and when it doesn’t at all. There is a whole string of campsites along the shore south of town, and at the same time you can stay in a hotel five minutes from the harbour. In Lazise, choosing between the two costs you more money than picking a specific hotel.

Quick summary for those in a hurry

• Cheapest decent accommodation: the municipal campsite Camping Lazise right in the centre, in high season €22 for the pitch + €11.70 per adult a day, plus €1 tourist tax.
• Where we slept: Hotel Giulietta Romeo, €269 a night in mid-August, but with free secure parking on site.
• Parking is the main trap here. In the centre during the season you pay everywhere and spots are hard to find. Accommodation with parking of its own saves you more than you think.
• Best location: the historic centre between the walls, if you want to walk everywhere in the evening. Campsites along the lungolago south of town, if you want a beach and your car by the tent.
• Movieland is right in Lazise (Via Fossalta 58), €36 per adult. Gardaland is ten minutes by car, and the Villa dei Cedri thermal baths are in Colà, so in the same municipality.
• The ferry to Sirmione runs directly, with no transfer, even outside the season. The crossing takes 24-39 minutes. A day pass for the whole lake costs €39.50.
• When to go: late May or the first half of September. Campsite prices drop by €2-3 per person a day, and the town is noticeably emptier.
• Who Lazise is not for: anyone who wants nightlife, and anyone who turns up without a booking in mid-August.

Why stay in Lazise specifically

What struck us about Lazise was one thing we hadn’t expected on the eastern shore of Lake Garda. It’s genuinely calm here. Not empty, no – the harbour is full in August. But it is the kind of bustle where you can walk down the main street at ten in the morning and not have to dodge anyone.

A calm you will not find elsewhere on the lake

The comparison suggests itself. In Sirmione in high season, you already queue on the bridge into the centre. Our photo of Lazise’s main street is from 9:23 in mid-August and there are only a handful of people in it.

That has to do with the town’s shape. The historic centre is small, walled, and has only a few entrances. Tourists don’t pile up in one square here, because there’s no large square to begin with.

Prices compared to Sirmione

Let’s be careful here. Restaurant prices are more or less the same as anywhere else on the lake. Anyone expecting Lazise to be cheap will be disappointed.

The difference is that you can find a few places here that are still cheaper than the ones in Sirmione. We have a specific example in the food section below. It’s not a discount across the whole town, it’s that you have a choice.

The second advantage is the location. Lazise sits between Bardolino and Peschiera, so the ferry, Gardaland and the motorway to Verona are all within reach. You settle in once and drive out from there.

Where we stayed: Hotel Giulietta Romeo

We stayed at Hotel Giulietta Romeo, a few minutes’ walk from the harbour and the string of restaurants around it. It’s about a five-minute stroll on flat ground into the centre, and around 400 metres to the lake.

We paid €269 a night in mid-August. We booked a couple of months ahead. Interestingly, they still had rooms free even on the day we arrived. What that says about Lazise as a whole, we don’t know – it was one hotel on one day, not a picture of the whole town.

Breakfast was excellent. It’s not huge, but there’s something for everyone, and that is more the exception than the rule at a three-star hotel on the lake.

But the main reason we picked it was something else. The hotel has its own secure parking inside the grounds, and it’s free. We expected a surcharge; none came. When you add what parking in the centre would cost to the price of the room, the difference against a cheaper hotel with no parking shrinks.

In the end, we never had to deal with parking in Lazise at all. Not because we figured it out, but because the hotel had already solved it for us.

The hotel comes with an outdoor pool and a garden with sun loungers. It is a three-star hotel with 44 rooms at Via della Scala 1, and every room has a balcony.

Our tip: if you are driving, factor parking into the cost of accommodation right from the start. On the eastern shore of Lake Garda, it’s the cost that decides.

Campsites in Lazise: the most searched-for accommodation in town

When Germans search for accommodation in Lazise, the overwhelming majority are searching for a campsite. Demand for campsites here is roughly three times that for hotels: German searches for campsites in Lazise run at around 5,400 a month against 1,900 for hotels. Against neighbouring Bardolino, where campsites come in at 2,400 a month, that is more than double. A strip of campsites runs along the shore south of town.

The municipal campsite is right in the historic centre

This is something most guides leave out. Camping Lazise is run directly by the municipality and sits inside the historic centre. The entrance is off Viale Roma from the Gardesana, and the beach on Lungolago Cavazzocca Mazzanti is right next door.

The site covers roughly 15,000 m² and 113 pitches of 75 m². The 2026 season runs from 27 March to 19 October. The bungalows are being removed for renovation, so this year it is pitches only.

The price list has eleven seasonal bands. Here are the four that are most likely to interest you (source: the Lazise municipality’s 2026 price list):

Period	Adult / day	Child 2-9 years	Pitch (piazzola)
7–29 April	€8.00	€4.80	€16.50
22 May – 26 June	€10.50	€6.00	€19.00
12 July – 22 August	€11.70	€6.40	€22.00
23 August – 19 September	€9.50	€5.80	€20.00

The price includes 10% VAT, a space for the car, hot water and an electricity connection. Not included is the tourist tax of €1 per person per day, up to a maximum of 21 days. A dog costs €3-5.50 depending on the season, and the camper service is €10 year-round.

Checkout is by 13:30. A later departure can be arranged, by 18:00 at the latest, for a 50% surcharge on the base rate, if there is availability.

Private campsites: du Parc, La Quercia and Lido

The big campsites lie outside the walls, along the road and the shore. The most commonly searched are Camping du Parc, Camping La Quercia and Camping Lido, followed by Belvedere, Idea, Spiaggia d’Oro, Piani di Clodia, delle Rose, Fossalta and Amici di Lazise.

• Camping La Quercia has a season from 26 March to 18 October 2026, a tourist tax of €1.30 per person over 14 per day and a limit of 5 people and 1 car per pitch. Besides pitches, it also offers maxi-caravans and bungalows.
• Camping du Parc is, by its own account, roughly 500 metres from the historic centre. Every pitch has car parking, electricity, water and waste water drainage included in the price.
• Camping Lido is the strongest name in German searches out of the whole group. It offers a discount of 10% for 7 nights and 15% for 14 nights in the periods 27 March to 21 May and 20 September to 18 October.

You have to click your way through the private campsites’ prices yourself. Unlike the municipality, none of them publishes a price list as a readable table – they hide the numbers inside a booking system or in a PDF where they are typeset as an image. So expect the price to change by date, and it is worth comparing a week either side of your dates too.

Tip: the big campsites have their own pools, activity programmes and a beach; the municipal campsite does not. But from the municipal campsite you can walk to a restaurant in three minutes. It’s a choice between a resort and a location, not between expensive and cheap.

Why we did not camp ourselves

We have to be honest here. We didn’t camp in Lazise. We stayed in a hotel, and the figures above come from the municipality’s official price list, not from our own experience.

We are putting it here because the municipality’s price list is a public document and more precise than anything we would have remembered ourselves. What we cannot tell you first-hand is what it is actually like to sleep at that campsite in August.

Hotels in the centre and by the lake

The hotel offering in Lazise is small compared to the campsites, and it shows in the prices. In high season you commonly pay over €200 a night even for three stars, which is normal for the lake, but it’s unpleasant all the same.

Split the town into two parts in your mind. Inside the walls are smaller hotels and residences, from where you can walk everywhere, but you have to sort out parking separately. Along the Gardesana and south of town stand bigger hotels with a pool and their own parking.

The same names keep coming up in both Czech and English searches for Lazise: Corte Valier, Bella Lazise, Miralago, Benacus, Sirena, Le Mura, Casa Mia and Residenza Sante. That doesn’t mean they’re the best, it means people search for them by name. Prices and availability for all accommodation in Lazise can be compared in one place.

What to ask before you book: whether parking is included, and whether it’s inside the grounds. In Lazise that’s a question that decides the final bill far more than one star up or down.

The second question is the distance from the Gardesana. The road runs along the whole town, and rooms facing it are noisy in season.

Apartment, hotel, or campsite? How to choose

The difference between the cheapest and the most expensive way to spend a night in Lazise is a multiple, not a percentage. So it’s worth thinking it through before you start picking by photos.

• Choose a campsite if you’re staying more than three nights. For one or two nights, pitching and packing up isn’t worth it; for a week, the difference against a hotel is over a thousand euros.
• Choose a hotel if you’re arriving late and leaving early. For a short stopover, a hotel with its own parking is the least friction: you park, you sleep, and in the morning you drive on.
• Choose an apartment if there are four of you or more. The price per night splits between you, a kitchen saves you one restaurant meal a day, and Lazise has both a supermarket and a Wednesday market.
• Stay inside the walls if you want the evenings. Restaurants, the harbour and the lanes are all in one place, and you don’t need a car at all.
• Stay outside the walls if you want a beach and a pool. The strip of campsites and larger hotels south of town has both, and you can walk into the centre along the promenade.

That last pair is the sharpest choice you’ll make in Lazise. Here’s one hotel from each side of the walls:

Notice that there’s no star rating and no room photo anywhere in that list. In Lazise, the length of your stay and whether you have a car decide the outcome far more than the category of accommodation.

If you’re planning a whole holiday by the lake and travelling with kids, take a look at our guide to Lake Garda with kids. It covers the whole week, itinerary included; this article only covers where to sleep.

The luxury option: Quellenhof and TH Parchi del Garda

Lazise also has an upper tier of the market, and it shows up more strongly in Italian searches than most of the hotels here. Two names keep coming up again and again.

Quellenhof Luxury Resort Lazise is the more searched-for of the two. It’s a large wellness resort, and guests give it 9.5 out of 10 from 187 reviews, which is an exceptional figure for such a large property.

TH Lazise Hotel Parchi del Garda aims somewhere else. It’s a large family hotel built around its closeness to the amusement parks, and people come here mainly for Gardaland and Movieland. Its rating of 8.5 out of 10 from 3,951 reviews matches what it is: a well-oiled family machine, not a boutique.

We won’t give you a per-night price for either, and there’s a reason. When we tried to book a single August night, neither one was available on Booking.com for that date. In peak season this category sells by the week, not by the night.

So where does the upper tier in Lazise sit, price-wise: a week for two in mid-August comes to roughly €1,500-2,500 at the better hotels (Booking.com, dates 14-21 August 2027, checked 25 August 2026). For comparison, the same week at the municipal campsite costs around €330.

We haven’t stayed at either, so we’ll only tell you what can be verified. What we can say: for the price of one night at the resort, you’d pay for almost a whole week at the municipal campsite. If you’re going for the lake and not the pool, that’s a thought worth five minutes.

How much accommodation costs in Lazise

The comparison below is from one specific week, mid-August, and every figure is for two adults for one night. It’s the most expensive part of the year, so treat the table as the upper end.

Prices by season

Option	Night for two in peak season	Source
Municipal campsite, pitch	€47.40	Lazise municipal price list, band 12 July – 22 August 2026
Apartment for two	from €175, typically €200-260	Booking.com, 14 August 2027, checked 25 August 2026
Hotel Giulietta Romeo	€269	our own booking, 15 August 2026
Week at a better hotel	€1,500-2,500 for 7 nights	Booking.com, 14-21 August 2027

The rows carry different dates on purpose. The first figure, €47.40, is from the town’s published price list; €269 is what we actually paid; and the rest is a live Booking search for a comparable August date. Hotel prices move; the town’s price list doesn’t.

That €47.40 at the campsite breaks down like this: pitch €22, two adults at €11.70 each, and tourist tax of €2 for both. Nothing else gets added on top; electricity and the car parking space are included in the price.

Budget for three nights, two people

Item	Campsite	Hotel
Three nights for two	€142.20	€807.00
Parking	included	included (Giulietta Romeo)
Breakfast	self-catered	included
Ferry to Sirmione and back	see the transport section

The difference is €664.80 for three nights. That’s not a detail, that’s a plane ticket somewhere else. At the same time, at the campsite you’re cooking your own breakfast for three mornings, while at the hotel you go downstairs to a table.

When Lazise is cheaper: the town’s price list drops in the band starting 23 August to €9.50 per adult and €20 per pitch, and from 20 September lower still. Late August is €2.20 per person per day cheaper than the week before, and the water in the lake is exactly the same.

Parking in Lazise and how to find it

Parking in Lazise is complicated. Not because there isn’t enough of it, but because it isn’t easy to find. The historic centre is closed off, the signs lead you around the walls, and by the time you work out where you can actually stop, you’ve driven around the town twice. Veronika and I don’t like this, because a long hunt for a space brings a real risk that we get lost, drive into the ZTL zone, and end up paying a fine.

We’ll admit straight away how it went for us. In the end, we didn’t deal with parking at all, because we only parked at the hotel. From there we walked into the centre in five minutes. So our own experience of hunting for a space in the streets ends with the fact that we spared ourselves the trouble.

What we know about parking in Lazise, and what we don’t. The town does not publish its rates on its own website, and the figures circulating on other sites disagree with each other. We won’t copy them here, because you’ll pay whatever’s on the machine, not whatever we found somewhere online.

What you can rely on:

• You pay in the centre. Both the blue-lined bays (in Italy, blue lines mean paid parking) and the municipal car parks charge in season, all day and into the late evening.
• The biggest car park is Piazzale Marra. If you don’t know where to go, head there. Smaller car parks are on Via San Martino and Via Alberto della Scala.
• Outside the season the municipal car parks are usually free, with the exception of the car park on Via dei Miniscalchi in Colà. The town announces the exact dates separately each year, usually from the start of November.
• Check the rate at the machine. It’s the only place the rate is actually current, and the difference between car parks is tens of cents an hour, not euros.

Lazise has a ZTL, as we mentioned above, meaning a limited-traffic zone. The town keeps a record of permits for it, but it doesn’t publish the boundaries or the hours clearly anywhere. So don’t drive into the lanes of the historic centre until you’re sure you’re allowed to, and follow the signs on the ground.

Our tip: when you book accommodation, ask about parking before you ask about the view. In Lazise, parking on site is a detail that can make up for a hundred euros of difference in the price per night.

How to get to Lazise, and where the ferry takes you from here

By car, Lazise is the simplest option. The A4 motorway exit at Peschiera is a few minutes away, and from Verona you’re here in under an hour. From the north you come along the Gardesana, the road that runs along the whole eastern shore of the lake.

But the water is more interesting. Lazise has its own landing stage on the main southern line, run by Navigazione Lago di Garda. It’s not a pleasure cruise, it’s ordinary scheduled transport.

The line runs in the order Desenzano, Peschiera, Sirmione, Lazise, Bardolino, Garda, and on to the western shore to Portese, Salò, Gardone, Maderno and Gargnano.

You can get to Sirmione directly from here, with no transfer. It’s worth pointing out, because it’s commonly written that no direct connection exists. It does, and even outside peak season, when the fewest sailings run.

Here’s what one specific sailing looks like in the winter timetable. We’re deliberately taking the sparsest one, so you can see what holds true even in the weakest month:

Stop	Departure
Desenzano	10:05
Sirmione	10:25
Lazise	11:04
Bardolino	11:21
Garda	11:36

We counted four direct sailings from Sirmione to Lazise in the winter timetable, and the journey takes 24 to 39 minutes depending on the sailing. In peak season there are more, not fewer – the summer timetable runs from late March to early October. So check the exact times for your dates; this table is the lower bound, not your holiday schedule.

Fares are calculated by tratta, the fare zone, which you’ll find in the stops table. Prices valid from 1 April 2026:

Tratta	Full fare	Children aged 4-11	Surcharge for express services
1	€3.50	€3.50	€2.50
2	€6.00	€3.50	€3.00
3	€7.50	€3.80	€4.00
4	€11.50	€5.80	€4.50
6	€16.00	€8.00	€5.50

For comparison, the whole lake from Sirmione to Riva is tratta 6. The Lazise-Sirmione stretch is significantly shorter, but check the exact tratta at the ticket office or in the app, because the stops table in the price list is only an image.

If you’re planning to travel a lot, a day pass is worth it: €39.50 for the whole lake, €27 for the southern or northern half and €23.50 for one zone. Children aged 4-11 pay €20, €13.50 and €12.

We took the ferry to Sirmione and left the car at the hotel. If you’re heading there too, it’s an option that saves you the hassle of finding parking on the Sirmione peninsula.

Movieland and Gardaland: how far the amusement parks are from your accommodation

This is the main reason so many families stay in Lazise. You have two big amusement parks within reach, and you don’t need to plan a whole day of travel to get there.

Movieland is right in Lazise

Movieland Park is located at Via Fossalta 58 in Lazise, so inside the municipality itself. It’s a movie-themed park and part of the CanevaWorld resort along with the Caneva Aquapark.

Admission for the 2026 season according to the official price list:

• Adult, over 140 cm: €36.00
• Child, 100-140 cm: €29.00
• Under 100 cm: free
• A discounted €29 also applies to pregnant women, seniors over 65, police officers and members of the armed forces, but only when bought at the ticket office.

Buy tickets directly at canevaworld.it. Ticket resellers do offer experience packages for several times the price, but not a regular day ticket. The only way to get into the park for €36 is through the official website.

Gardaland is ten minutes by car

Gardaland is in the neighbouring municipality of Castelnuovo del Garda, Via Derna 4, and it’s about ten minutes by car from Lazise. Unlike Movieland, regular tickets can be bought online in advance.

We haven’t been to either park yet. The prices and distances are verified, but we can’t give you our impressions of an actual visit.

We cover a whole day at Gardaland, complete with an itinerary and budget, in our guide to Lake Garda with kids, where you’ll also find a link to buy tickets online. Here we’ll stick to what it means for choosing accommodation: staying in Lazise puts both parks within fifteen minutes.

Villa dei Cedri thermal park and what’s within walking distance in Lazise

Besides the amusement parks, Lazise has three things that draw visitors, and all three are close to where you’ll be staying. One of them, though, isn’t quite what you’d expect.

Parco Termale Villa dei Cedri

The Villa dei Cedri thermal park is in Colà di Lazise, so in the same municipality, just a short way inland. It’s a set of natural thermal pools in a park with mature trees, warm water, waterfalls and hydromassage jets.

You can buy a ticket online in advance, and that’s more useful here than it sounds. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before your visit, you pay later and you don’t have to call anyone. For a thermal park, where you decide based on the weather, that’s exactly the flexibility you want.

The ticket is also valid for a year from issue, so it won’t go to waste even if you end up going somewhere else instead.

Ticket to Parco Termale Villa dei Cedri – book online – free cancellation up to 24 hours before your visit, pay later.

We haven’t been to the thermal park, so we can’t tell you how crowded it gets in August. We’re writing about it because it’s the one big attraction that belongs directly to Lazise, and staying here genuinely shortens the journey to it.

Castello Scaligero: why you won’t get inside

The Scaliger castle is in almost every photo of Lazise and it’s the town’s most searched-for landmark. But you won’t get inside.

What’s left of the castle stands on the grounds of Villa Buri, now Villa Bernini, and it’s private and still lived in. It only opens to the public on special occasions.

What you can do: walk around the walls from the outside. The battlements, towers and gates are all well preserved, and a circuit around them takes about an hour. It’s a pleasant walk, just don’t expect a ticket office or a guided route.

Beach and lungolago

This is what Veronika and I enjoyed most in Lazise. Walking along the lake, relaxing and not planning anything. The promenade runs from the harbour southward along the beaches and the strip of campsites, and you can walk a long way along it.

From the centre you can reach the water in a few minutes from any direction. If you’re staying inside the walls, the beach is a ten-minute walk away. If you’re staying at a campsite, it’s right behind your tent.

Where we ate: George Fish & Chips

What we really enjoyed in Lazise was George Fish & Chips. Affordable, good food – a combination you don’t expect by the lake in August.

We had the Marre mix, a seafood mix, for €5 and a small portion of chips for €5. Most dishes here run €5-10 depending on portion size.

There’s often a queue. It’s worth it. It’s one of the places that make the difference between Lazise and Sirmione that we wrote about above.

Otherwise, what we said at the start still holds. Restaurant prices here are more or less the same as anywhere else on the lake. Two pizzas and two beers in the centre will cost you the usual Garda price, and don’t expect the whole town to be cheap.

Tip: if you’re staying at a campsite, there’s a market in Lazise on Wednesday mornings. Buying fruit, cheese and bread for three days works out cheaper than a single dinner for two.

Who Lazise isn’t for

For us, Lazise is an ideal stop for a few days for families. You can walk along the lake, relax, you’re not swamped by crowds or extreme prices, and Gardaland is close by. That does mean it won’t suit everyone.

• Anyone who wants nightlife. Lazise closes early. The calm we loved is, for someone else, the main reason to go elsewhere.
• Anyone looking for a cheap Garda. Restaurants here cost the same as everywhere else, and so do hotels in August. The only cheap way to stay is at a campsite.
• Anyone arriving without a reservation in mid-August. We did find availability, but we wouldn’t recommend counting on it, especially if you want accommodation with parking.
• Anyone who wants dramatic scenery. The eastern shore is flat here. The cliffs and hairpin bends only start near Monte Baldo and in the north near Riva del Garda.
• Anyone who wants one big city for their whole holiday. Lazise is small. You can walk the whole town in two days, and after that you’re taking the ferry or driving elsewhere.

If this list sounds more like the neighbouring towns, take a look at our guides to Bardolino, Sirmione and Desenzano. All three are within reach from Lazise by ferry or by car.

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