The Lovere hotel is a nice place to stay, and to Italian hotel standards certainly above expectations. The service of the hotel was good, the breakfast was OK and the rooms were well equiped with most comforts you would expect in a hotel of this class present.
Lovere however is not a place we would recommend. Although the town has two excelent restaurants, there is basically nothing to do. You cannot swim, unless you want to walk for 3km, you can rent a boat albeit at a rate of 220 euro for 6 hours, you could rent a canoo somewhere although we were never able to find the rental place. The city center is quite nice, but everything is closed and there is nothing to do even in the evening there seems to be no life here.
The receptionist at the hotel summarised it all when I asked here why there were no shops open in the evening like in the rest of Italies tourist locations: 'Sorry, but we are not such a tourist town yet'
I think that summarizes it all...