Residenza Al Lido - Tertianum

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Traveller Type: Family with Young Children

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Traveller Type: Family with Young Children

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children

Very Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children

Very Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : Location was great, and the apartment was very spacious. Kid-friendly.
  : No airconditioning, and no blackout curtains, so it can get quite hot in the room.

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Traveller Type: Solo Traveler
  : It was clean and the staff were excellent. Great breakfast.
  : It was quite clinical.

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Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : Breakfast was nice. Pool is very good for children.
  : Beds were not very comfortable

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  : We booked the two bedroom apartment. It's an interesting setup - there are something like 12 "vacation rental" apartments in the residence, which is generally a retirement home. Our rental unit (323?) looked just like in the advertising photos, with modern and kinda funky purple plastic furniture. We thought breakfast was very good -- there's a large spread of options and they make fresh coffee. There's no hot breakfast but there is an extensive range of cold breakfast foods, from cereal to several types of cheeses and several types of bread and veggies, hard boiled eggs, several juices, etc. Breakfast is easily worth CHF10/person for people who eat breakfast, which we do not usually, but it was included with our booking. Apartment had tons of space, two toilets and one shower, good place to stay for a family or even for 4 adults. Our terrace had a nice view of the mountains behind Ascona; I'm not sure any apartments have a lake view as it's a little far back. It's about a 10 minute walk to Locarno Centro, or maybe 15-20 to Locarno train station. They give you a free transport card for Locarno when you check in, and there is a bus directly in front of the hotel that runs every 30 minutes from 5am-9pm and then every hour from I think 9pm-11pm. The residence is also like a 4 minute walk from the Locarno Spa and Lido, which is why we booked it in the first place. The private garden in front, where you can take breakfast, is also very nice - although with the heat already at 30C by 9am when we stayed, we did not make so much use of it. I like the idea of how they mix up a retirement home with normal hotel guests, and if I ever move to a retirement home, I think I'd prefer to live in one like this to one that exclusively hosts people over 80 years old! Receptionists were very nice and they spoke at least four languages (French, Italian, English, German).
  : No air conditioning, and it gets very hot in Ticino in summer, even besides this heat wave we had last week! There was one fan, which was appreciated, but there should really be one fan for each bedroom. The CHF20 (22)/day fee to use the kitchen is also kind of weird and would be annoying for a longer stay. We only stayed one night so anyway would not have used it. The walk from Locarno Centro to the Residence is kind of off putting - it goes through a small abandoned industrial area. Anyway it is Switzerland so it is 100% safe in such an area, it is just kind of strange that this incredibly valuable nearby terrain is a decayed factory. The area *right* next to the residence is a stadium and a practice field, so I think the direct approach will forever remain clear of nearby buildings.

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Traveller Type: Family with Young Children

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Traveller Type: Solo Traveler