Quellenhof Luxury Resort Lazise
Quellenhof Luxury Resort Lazise is a five-star resort above the south-eastern shore of Lake Garda, near Verona in northern Italy, set among cypress trees and olive groves a few minutes' walk from the water. Gourmet half-board, a 2,000m² wellness area with rooftop and lake-view pools and a children's pool with two slides sit on one quiet site. The one thing to know before anything else is the minimum guest age of four, so it can't take a baby or toddler under four.
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Is it worth it?
The quick read before the detail: who this resort suits, who it can't take, and the facts to weigh first.
Quellenhof Luxury Resort Lazise is a quiet, high-end five-star resort above Lake Garda, built around gourmet food and a large wellness area rather than around children. The thing most families need to know first is the age rule: the minimum guest age is four, confirmed across the resort's own pages, so a family with a baby or toddler under four can't stay at all. There's no kids' club and no crèche either, so the children's facilities, a shallow pool with slides, a play area and a football pitch, are physical and unsupervised, and parents look after their own children throughout. For a couple, or for a family whose children are all four or over and happy without a supervised programme, it's a calm base with half-board included, rooftop and lake-view pools and a 2,000m² spa. It's also priced at the top of the Lake Garda market, so it makes most sense if you'd otherwise pay separately for fine dinners and a serious spa.
Best for
You want a quiet five-star base on Lake Garda with gourmet half-board, a big spa and heated pools, and your children are all four or over.
Maybe not for
You have a baby or toddler under four, in which case you can't book at all, or you want a supervised kids' club or a lively family village.
Best ages
Four and up, the resort's own minimum. It suits children roughly four to twelve alongside adults, with a children's pool, slides, a play area and football, all unsupervised.
What stands out
The gourmet half-board, the 2,000m² Onda Spa and sauna world, and the rooftop and lake-view pools.
What to check
That every child is four or over, and whether a young child can manage the six-course dinner or wants a simpler plate.
Where is it?
Above the south-eastern shore of Lake Garda near Lazise, about 20 minutes from Verona airport.
Quick facts for families
What the resort is like
Where it sits, how the single site is laid out and the one part of it that's a mile up the road.
The Quellenhof opened in 2019, Heinrich Dorfer's own project and six years in the making. It's a sister to the family's long-established Quellenhof in Passeier, in the South Tyrol, which first opened in 1923. The Dorfers' Quellenhof Luxury Resorts group also runs the Quellenhof See Lodge and the Hotel Das Alpenschlössl, both in Passeier, so the Lazise resort sits alongside three others under the same family and standard. It sits above the south-eastern shore among cypress trees, olive groves and Mediterranean gardens, with the medieval walled town of Lazise about a 30-minute walk away or a short ride on the free shuttle. It's a compact, high-end resort rather than a sprawling holiday village: quiet, adults-leaning and modern, with the children's facilities woven in rather than leading it.
Almost everything is on one site. The main hotel holds the Panorama Restaurant, the rooms, the rooftop Sky Pool and its Tiki bar. The Residence, a separate building about 50 metres away, holds the three Family-Suites; it's understood to be linked to the main hotel only across the outdoor grounds rather than by an indoor route, so if that matters in cold or wet weather with children it's worth checking with the resort. The Garden Pool Villa is on-site too. The exception to the single site is the pair of Lazise Pool Villas, about 1.2km away in Lazise town, where guests shuttle in to use the pools and spa.
A 2,000m² wellness area runs across the pools, the saunas and the Onda Spa. All the pools use Grander water, spring water treated to cut the lime content, which the resort says is gentler on eyes and skin. The wine cellar holds more than 800 labels chosen by the resort's sommelier.
Every restaurant and bar
The three places to eat and drink on-site, the affiliated restaurant nearby, and how dinner works.
Half-board is included in every rate: a buffet breakfast and a six-course dinner. There are three places to eat and drink on the resort, plus an affiliated restaurant a short drive away.
Panorama Restaurant is the main dining room. Breakfast is a buffet, roughly 7:30 to 11, with baked goods, cheeses, an egg station and more. Dinner is a six-course gourmet menu with a choice at each course, Mediterranean with an international touch, from fish and meat to a wood-fired pizza, and vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free and histamine-free options can be arranged if you ask when you book. It has a retractable glass "cabrio" roof and looks out over the lake. Dogs aren't allowed in here.
Bistro La Piazza is the daytime bistro, open for lunch and into the afternoon, on a sun terrace over the gardens and pools. It serves Italian antipasti, salads, freshly made pasta, ice cream and cakes from the in-house patisserie. It's also the standard dinner venue for guests staying in the Lazise Pool Villas.
Tiki Sky Bar is the rooftop bar beside the Sky Pool, pouring cocktails, wines and aperitifs from the afternoon into the evening in the summer months.
For dinner the resort kindly asks guests to dress in elegant attire. That's a polite request rather than an enforced rule, and it isn't spelled out as applying to children. A six-course dinner is a lot for a young child to sit through, so if a simpler plate matters ask the resort directly when you book.
La Casa degli Spiriti is the Dorfer family's own restaurant in Costermano, about a 30-minute drive, in an 18th-century residence serving Mediterranean fish and meat. It isn't part of the board or a resort facility, more an optional evening out.
How dinner works if you book a Lazise Pool Villa
The Lazise Pool Villas sit about 1.2km away in the town, so the half-board works a little differently for them. Breakfast is at the Panorama Restaurant like everyone else, but dinner is served at Bar & Bistro La Piazza as standard. Dinner at the Panorama itself is assessed on site and can't be guaranteed in advance, so don't book a villa expecting to eat in the main dining room every night.
Rooms and suites
Every room and suite with its official size, then the pools and the lake within the grounds.
Accommodation runs from an entry-level double up to two-floor pool villas, across the main hotel, the Residence and two off-site villas. The table below is the full line-up with official sizes; the guidance after it is which suit a family.
| Room | Size | Sleeps | Where it is and layout |
|---|---|---|---|
| Double Room Limone | 38 m² | 2 | Main hotel, entry-level double |
| Suite Oliva | 50 m² | 2–4 | Main hotel, a separate sleeping area for children possible |
| Suite Giardino | 75 m² | 2–5 | Main hotel, garden access |
| Suite Giardino "al lago" | 80 m² | 2–5 | Main hotel, lake view |
| Suite Bella Bianca | 75 m² | 2 | Main hotel, white marble and furniture, no dogs |
| Suite Bella Bianca "al lago" | 80 m² | 2 | Main hotel, lake view, no dogs |
| Penthouse Pool Villa | 265 m² | 2–5 | Main hotel, two floors, two en-suite bedrooms, private rooftop pool, sauna and whirlpool |
| Family-Suite Salvia | 50 m² | 2–4 | Residence, quiet family building |
| Family-Suite Melissa | 70 m² | 2–6 | Residence, larger family suite |
| Family-Suite Rosmarino | 90 m² | 2–8 | Residence, the largest family suite on the main site |
| Garden Pool Villa | 110 m² | 2–6 | On-site, private pool and open-plan kitchen |
| Lazise Pool Villa Premium | 130 m² | 2–6 | In Lazise town, 1.2km away, private pool |
| Lazise Pool Villa Classique | 150 m² | 2–8 | In Lazise town, 1.2km away, private pool |
The entry-level Double Room Limone at 38m² sleeps two, so it isn't a family room. For a separate space to close on a napping child, Suite Oliva at 50m² can be set up with a separate children's sleeping area, and the three Family-Suites in the Residence are the family-focused rooms: Salvia at 50m², Melissa at 70m² and Rosmarino at 90m², which is the largest family suite on the main site and sleeps up to eight. A few Rosmarino suites may open straight onto the natural bathing lake, though the resort doesn't confirm this on its own pages, so ask when you book if it matters. Remember that the Residence is understood to be linked to the main hotel only across the grounds, which is the trade-off for that quieter building.
Above the suites, the Penthouse Pool Villa at 265m² spans two floors with two en-suite bedrooms and a private rooftop infinity pool, sauna and whirlpool. The Garden Pool Villa at 110m² is on-site with its own pool and an open-plan kitchen. The two Bella Bianca suites are white-marble doubles for two, and don't take dogs. The Lazise Pool Villas, the Premium at 130m² and the Classique at 150m², are the two off-site ones in the town, each with a private pool, with a shuttle in to the resort for the pools and spa.
Suites come with rain showers, smart controls, a Nespresso machine and Dorfer Med toiletries, with a spa bag of robe, towels and slippers waiting in the room on arrival. Your room number and floor can't be confirmed when you book, though the resort says it will try to meet preferences, so this isn't something to plan a stay around. Children are priced per night by age band, four to ten, eleven to sixteen and seventeen and over, when they share with two full-paying adults, and the booking system works it out automatically.
Pools and water
The Sky Pool is a rooftop infinity pool with a lake panorama and the Tiki bar alongside. It's adults only, heated year-round to 30 to 34°C, and children aren't admitted. The Sports Pool is a 25-metre outdoor pool, also heated year-round, set in a sunbathing lawn, with an automatic sliding door to an indoor entry point so you can get in from inside on a cold day; it's open to all ages. The children's pool is a shallow outdoor pool with a sun awning, open mid-April to October from 7am to 8pm, with a minimum age of four; alongside it are a long twisting water slide and a wave slide, plus a play area with a treehouse and a climbing frame. There's no splash pad, so the water play for children is the shallow pool and the two slides.
The lake and lakefront
Lazise sits on the south-eastern shore of Lake Garda, and the resort is a few minutes' walk from the water, an estimated 400 to 500 metres on flat ground. This isn't a sandy beach in the Mediterranean sense: there's public lakeside access and a promenade, and Lazise itself is a popular lakeside town with a harbour and ferry connections. Lake water quality here is generally well regarded. The lake is swimmable at the surface, around 20°C from June to August and up to 25 or 26°C in a hot summer. Within the grounds the resort also has its own natural bathing lake, open all year with clear water and quiet zones on the shore, which is the main open-water swim for guests, and some Residence suites may open onto it, though that isn't confirmed on the resort's own pages.
Babies and toddlers
The age rule, what's there for children four and over, and what to check before you book.
The single most important thing is the minimum guest age of four, and it's absolute rather than a soft recommendation. A family with a baby or toddler under four can't stay, so this isn't a resort for the youngest end of our readers.
For children of four and over, everything is physical and unsupervised. There's no kids' club and no crèche, and parents look after their own children throughout, including at the pools. What's provided is the shallow children's pool and its two slides, open mid-April to October, a garden play area with a treehouse and climbing frame, a football pitch and two family saunas that you use clothed. The Onda Spa also lists Family and Kids treatments, though there's no minimum age published for them, so ask before booking a child in.
On the practical side for younger children, the resort doesn't list cots, high chairs or other baby equipment, which is no surprise given the four-and-over rule, so check directly what's on hand for a four to six-year-old. There's dog-sitting, but the resort doesn't list a babysitting service, so if you want an evening to yourselves it's a question for the resort rather than something you can count on. The six-course dinner with its elegant-attire request is also a long meal for a young child to sit through.
On and off the resortThings to do
A good deal is included in the rate. On the courts there are two tennis courts and two padel courts, padel being the enclosed racket game played in pairs, with rackets and balls to borrow, plus the football pitch. Indoors there's a well-equipped fitness room and a separate movement room, and the Feel Moved programme runs yoga and a daily-changing workout. Bike hire is included, along with two guided mountain-bike tours a week.
Several things cost extra: e-bike hire, personal training, resort-organised water sports and boat trips on the lake, with sailing boats and motorboats bookable through the resort and sunset tours among them. For getting about there's the Q-Care-Cruiser, an electric rickshaw the resort runs for family rides into town or to the ice cream parlour, and you can also hire a Vespa, a Harley or a convertible. There are twelve golf courses in the area and the resort puts together golf day packages, and it can arrange tickets for performances at the Verona Arena, the Roman amphitheatre in Verona.
Onda Spa and wellness
The 2,000m² spa and sauna world, the cryosauna, and the trips and towns around the resort.
The Onda Spa is the heart of the resort's 2,000m² wellness area, open 9am to 7pm daily, and it's split into an adults-only area where the saunas are used nude and a family area where you stay clothed. Its name is the Italian for wave, and each treatment is themed around the four stages of one.
The adults-only sauna world has a Finnish event sauna with four choreographed infusion sessions a day, a milder bio sauna, a steam sauna, a plunge pool, a tea corner and indoor and outdoor relaxation areas. The family area, used clothed, has its own Finnish sauna, a steam bath and relaxation space. Sauna hours run from 2pm to 7:30pm in summer and good weather, and from noon in winter or poor weather.
There's also a cryosauna, a cold-therapy cabin cooled to as low as -110°C for two to three minutes, aimed mainly at adults for recovery and wellbeing. The booking form does offer a child option and there's a children's day-spa package, but no minimum age or child protocol is published, so treat it as an adult treatment and confirm any age guidance with the resort before booking a child in. After a session you wait at least two hours before using the saunas.
The treatment menu is long: signature facials, body treatments and massages, a men's spa, care for eyes, hair, hands and feet, plus aesthetic medicine, using the resort's own Q-Touch line alongside VITALIS Dr Joseph and Valmont. There's a hair salon within the spa and a private spa suite for couples or premium treatments.
Beyond the resortThe area and days out
Lazise itself is a medieval walled village with a harbour, restaurants and ferry connections, about a 30-minute walk or a short free shuttle from the resort. The area is thick with theme parks. Gardaland, Italy's largest theme park, is 6km away, open daily from 10am from the end of March to the end of September, with the day running until 11pm in summer; alongside its roller coasters it has a water playground for toddlers. Sea Life Aquarium sits right next to it, also 6km away and open the same end-March to end-September season, daily from 10am to 6pm, with more than 40 tanks across 13 themed areas, an ocean tunnel and shark feeding sessions. The Caneva World water park is 2km away and open from late May to mid-September, and Movieland, its film-themed park, is 2.5km away on the same site.
Further out, Verona is about 25km and 20 to 25 minutes away, with its Roman Arena and the Romeo and Juliet sights, and the resort can arrange Arena tickets. Venice is around an hour and a half by car, or you can reach it by ferry from Lazise or by train from nearby Peschiera del Garda, and the resort can fold it into a shuttle package. Closer to home there are boat trips out on the lake, guided wine tours through the Lake Garda wine country and signposted walking trails from the resort. La Casa degli Spiriti, the family's own restaurant at Costermano about 30 minutes away, makes an optional evening out.
Loves and gripes
What guests rate and what frustrates them, how it compares nearby, the journey in and the weather by month.
The resort's own site shows 96% from more than 4,895 reviews, and the family-resort site familysparesorts.com shows 95% from 588, with its highest marks for wellness and service. Both skew positive and one of them is the resort's own, so read them as a rough steer rather than an independent verdict.
What guests rate
- The staff, warm and attentive, named individually and a big reason people return.
- The pool and wellness complex and the views over the lake.
- The food and the breakfast variety.
- The design and the cleanliness.
- The private boat tours on the lake.
Common gripes
- A high price, among the highest at Lake Garda.
- The minimum age of four, which rules out families with a baby or toddler.
- No kids' club or supervised childcare.
- Managing a young child in smart clothes through a six-course dinner.
- No guaranteed room number or floor at booking.
- The Lazise Pool Villas being 1.2km off-site, and the Residence understood to be linked to the hotel only across the grounds.
How it compares
The nearest points of comparison are different kinds of resort. Camping Bella Italia, at Peschiera on the southern shore, is a large holiday village with waterslide parks, entertainment and a mini-club, takes children of any age including babies, and costs far less; it suits families who want an action-packed week rather than quiet luxury. Sisan Family Resort at Cisano di Bardolino, about 15km north, is a mid-market resort with a lagoon pool and waterpark and a Mini Club for children aged four to twelve, at a much lower price and a lower star rating; Quellenhof is ahead on food, spa and rooms, while Sisan offers the structured children's programme that Quellenhof doesn't. The family's own Quellenhof in Passeier, in the South Tyrol, is the original, with a longer-established children's and animation programme and an Alpine rather than a lakeside setting; it's the same family and standard, and you can split a stay across the two using the resort shuttle.
From the airport, and the seasonGetting there and when to go
Verona Valerio Catullo is the nearest airport, about 20 minutes away by car. Venice Marco Polo is around an hour and a half, and the three Milan airports about two hours. From the UK, Verona has some seasonal routes while Venice is better connected year-round, so check the current flights when you book. No major UK tour operator packages this resort, as it's an independent property marketed mainly to German, Austrian and Italian guests, so UK families book directly with the resort.
The resort runs a paid shuttle, booked ahead, from the Verona, Venice and Milan airports, from Verona Porta Nuova and Peschiera stations and from Bardolino, and a free on-call shuttle into Lazise town; a further shuttle connects it to the Quellenhof in Passeier if you're staying across both. By car it's off the A22 Brenner motorway at the Affi and Lago di Garda Sud exit, then about 7km on the SP5, with a free underground car park and electric-car charging at cost. By train the nearest station is Peschiera del Garda, about 8km away, with a resort shuttle pickup you pre-book. There's also a helipad behind the building.
The resort is open year-round. For families the warm, full-facility window is late June, July and early September, hot but manageable with the children's pool open, while mid-April to mid-June is a good choice if you're heat-sensitive. Summer afternoon and evening thunderstorms are common across Lake Garda, usually short but sometimes heavy.
Month by monthWeather
Lake Garda has a mild climate, warm in summer and cool but rarely severe in winter, with around 2,030 hours of sunshine a year. The resort is open all year, so the table covers every month; the children's pool is the seasonal part, open mid-April to October, while the rooftop and sports pools and the saunas run year-round. The lake itself reaches around 20°C in high summer and warmer in a hot year.
| Month | Daytime high | Overnight low | Rain | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7° | -0.5° | 44 mm | 6 |
| February | 10° | 0° | 38 mm | 5 |
| March | 15° | 3.5° | 42 mm | 5 |
| April | 19° | 7.5° | 67 mm | 8 |
| May | 24° | 13° | 70 mm | 8 |
| June | 28.5° | 17° | 62 mm | 7 |
| July | 30.5° | 19° | 67 mm | 5 |
| August | 30.5° | 18.5° | 75 mm | 6 |
| September | 25.5° | 14.5° | 75 mm | 6 |
| October | 19.5° | 10° | 65 mm | 7 |
| November | 13° | 4.5° | 87 mm | 8 |
| December | 8° | 0.5° | 64 mm | 8 |
Typical monthly averages from weather-station records.
Practical notes
Check-in, the tourist tax, parking, dogs, deposits and the New Year gala.
Check-in is from 3pm and check-out by 11am. You can keep the room until 6pm for half the room rate, or hold on to the spa alone from noon for a small fee. A local tourist tax of €3.50 per person aged 14 and over per night is added to your bill.
Parking is free in the underground car park, with electric-car charging at cost, and WiFi is free throughout. You can pay by debit card, Visa or Mastercard, or by bank transfer if it arrives at least three days before you leave. Dogs are welcome for €25 a day, not including food, but not in the wellness areas, the sunbathing lawns, the Panorama Restaurant or the Bella Bianca suites, and the resort offers dog-sitting at €20 an hour.
The deposit is 40% of the total at booking, refunded only as a voucher rather than cash, so read the cancellation terms before you pay. For the suites, cancelling four or more weeks out costs a €50 handling fee, 11 days out costs 40% of the stay, 10 to 1 days out costs 70%, and a no-show or early departure costs the full 100%. The villas are stricter again, with charges starting four months before arrival and rising in stages to the same 100% for a no-show. The resort doesn't publish accessibility detail, so contact it directly if step-free access or wheelchair provision matters. At New Year the resort runs a gala with a surcharge per adult, reduced for children aged 5 to 13 and waived for under-fives, covering an aperitif, a gala dinner, fireworks, a midnight snack, live music and a New Year's Day brunch.
Passports, healthcare and adviceEntry and safety
Italy is in the EU and the Schengen area, so a UK passport holder can visit for up to 90 days in any 180 without a visa, and a GHIC or EHIC card covers state healthcare. The UK Foreign Office has no advisory against travel to Italy, so normal travel insurance and the usual checks apply. Check the latest entry rules on GOV.UK before you book.
Questions
The things families ask most, the official pages worth a bookmark and when this guide was last refreshed.
Can we book if our child is under four?
No. Four is the minimum guest age and it's set across the resort's own pages, so a family with a younger child can't complete a booking here at all. If your children aren't all four yet, look at a Lake Garda resort that takes younger ones, such as Sisan Family Resort near Bardolino or the Camping Bella Italia village at Peschiera.
Is there a kids’ club or any childcare?
No supervised club or crèche. The facilities are physical and unsupervised, so plan on looking after your children yourselves, including at the pools.
Will a young child manage the six-course dinner?
It's a long, fairly formal meal, so email the resort before you book to ask whether a simpler plate or an earlier sitting is possible for a young child.
What’s different about the Lazise Pool Villas?
They're two large villas, 130 and 150m² with a private pool each, but they sit in Lazise town rather than on the resort, so you shuttle in to use the pools and spa. Half-board still applies, though your dinner is at La Piazza rather than the Panorama Restaurant. They suit families who want the space and their own pool over being a short walk from everything.
Can we get an evening to ourselves?
The resort offers dog-sitting but doesn't list a babysitting service, so if you want to dine as a couple ask in advance whether childcare can be arranged rather than assuming it's available.
Is there a dress code for dinner, and does it apply to children?
For dinner the resort asks for elegant attire. Nothing in that wording singles out children, and it's phrased as a request rather than a rule, so pack something a bit smarter for the evenings and don't worry about a child being turned away.
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- Quellenhof Luxury Resort Lazise: the resort's own site for rooms, what's included and the age policy. The address is Via del Terminon 19, 37017 Lazise (Verona), Italy, and the phone number is +39 045 8531000.
- GOV.UK Italy travel advice: entry rules and safety updates before you travel.
- Booking a family holiday: our guide to weighing up a family resort before you pay.
Last updated 17 July 2026. Opening seasons, activities and prices change, so check the current position before you book.
