Featured holiday Walking holiday at Lake Maggiore Lake Maggiore, Italy

7 nights/8 days
This is a seven-night, self-guided walking holiday for individuals around Italian Lake Maggiore. Spend a week in the lakeside village of Cannero Riviera, using this as a base from which to explore the beautiful lake and surrounding hills both in Italy and nearby Switzerland. Discover charming villages, wooded hillsides, historic buildings and beautiful panoramic views. Recommended for May to October.
Included in your Creative Walks holiday
  • Accommodation in a double or twin room on half board
  • Concierge service, regional helpful hints and walking notes

Self-guided walking holiday at Lake Maggiore in northern Italy

Highlights

• 4 self-guided walking itineraries • Cannero Riviera • Locarno • Monte Cardada • Ascona • Laveno and Monte Sasso del Ferro • Stresa • Borromean Islands

Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a double or twin room for 7 nights.

From about

£1,545

Holiday Code FHIT25

The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.

Self-guided walking holiday at Lake Maggiore in northern Italy

Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a double or twin room for 7 nights.

From about

£1,545

Holiday Code FHIT25

The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.

Our prices include ● 7 nights’ on half board in a double room with lake view at the Hotel Cannero in Cannero Riviera, Lake Maggiore
● Concierge service, regional helpful hints and walking notes

Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a double or twin room for 7 nights.

From about

£1,545

Holiday Code FHIT25

The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.

Our prices include • 7 nights’ on half board in a double room with lake view at the Hotel Cannero in Cannero Riviera, Lake Maggiore
• Concierge service, regional helpful hints and walking notes

The journey and how you get there There are flights with British Airways from London Heathrow to Milan Malpensa several times a day. From here it is a 75-minute journey by car to the hotel. Flights are also possible into Milan Linate airport.
Travel by rail from the UK using the Thello sleeper trains means leaving London on the Eurostar to Paris Nord at 1.30pm. Take a local taxi to Paris Lyon station and board the sleeper train at 7.15pm. Expressions Holidays include accommodation in a private twin cabin with basic wash facilities. Arrive in Milan at 6am and change onto a local hour-long train to Stresa where you collect your hire car. Return to the UK is undertaken via the same route.
Travel by rail from the UK on day-time trains involves a morning Eurostar to Paris and then switching onto the direct TGV-Lyria service to Lausanne, arriving around 6.15pm. Stay overnight in a convenient hotel near the train station and leave after breakfast the following morning. The direct train takes you through the Simplon Pass and arrives into Stresa around 4.30pm. We recommend returning along a different route, so you take the train to Olten and then north through the Gotthard Tunnel to Zurich. Stay overnight near the station and catch the 9.30am TGV service back to Paris. Switch onto the Eurostar and arrive back in London at 5.30pm.

Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a double or twin room for 7 nights.

From about

£1,545

Holiday Code FHIT25

The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.

Our prices include • 7 nights’ on half board in a double room with lake view at the Hotel Cannero in Cannero Riviera, Lake Maggiore
• Concierge service, regional helpful hints and walking notes

The journey and how you get there There are flights with British Airways from London Heathrow to Milan Malpensa several times a day. From here it is a 75-minute journey by car to the hotel. Flights are also possible into Milan Linate airport.
Travel by rail from the UK using the Thello sleeper trains means leaving London on the Eurostar to Paris Nord at 1.30pm. Take a local taxi to Paris Lyon station and board the sleeper train at 7.15pm. Expressions Holidays include accommodation in a private twin cabin with basic wash facilities. Arrive in Milan at 6am and change onto a local hour-long train to Stresa where you collect your hire car. Return to the UK is undertaken via the same route.
Travel by rail from the UK on day-time trains involves a morning Eurostar to Paris and then switching onto the direct TGV-Lyria service to Lausanne, arriving around 6.15pm. Stay overnight in a convenient hotel near the train station and leave after breakfast the following morning. The direct train takes you through the Simplon Pass and arrives into Stresa around 4.30pm. We recommend returning along a different route, so you take the train to Olten and then north through the Gotthard Tunnel to Zurich. Stay overnight near the station and catch the 9.30am TGV service back to Paris. Switch onto the Eurostar and arrive back in London at 5.30pm.

Self-guided walking holiday at Lake Maggiore in northern Italy