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Enjoy a boat tour of the beautiful Lake Maggiore and visit the stunning Isola Bella, one of the Borromean Islands. Enjoy traveling at your own pace with a hop-on hop-off boat tour from Stresa. Once on the island, you can explore the impressive Palace Museum and the well-tended gardens where you can expect to see white peacocks and the beautiful fountain dominating the garden.
Explore Isola Bella at leisure with a hop-on hop-off boat ticket from Stresa. Glide across Lake Maggiore to the most famous of the Borromean Islands to visit the Palace Museum and Italianate gardens.
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Specialized infant seats are available
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
The duration of transfers are approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and weather conditions
Palace museum and botanical garden on the islands are opened from March 19, 2022 to November 1 , 2022
Isola Bella
Get stunning views of Lake Maggiore and the small islands and islets of the Borromean Islands on an exclusive boat service between Stresa and Isola Bella. Travel at your own pace and according to your preferred schedule. Leave the boat at any of the islands and hop back on the next boat when you want to continue. Relax aboard the modern vessels as they ferry you between the most characteristic places on Lake Maggiore. Hop-off at the romantic island of Isola Bella to visit the Palace Museum and its Italianate gardens at your own expense. Go for a stroll around the fishing village on the other side of the tiny island. Cross back to Stresa, where you can journey up into the hills to visit the botanical gardens of the Giardino Botanico Alpinia at leisure.
private boat service exclusive use taxi boat
Enjoy a boat tour of the beautiful Lake Maggiore and visit the stunning Isola Bella, one of the Borromean Islands and Fisherman Islands. Enjoy travelling at your own pace with a hop-on hop-off ferry
Day Pass Boat Tour
Isola Bella daily Tour: Explore Lake Maggiore and the Borromean Islands at your own pace with a 1-day hop-on hop-off ferry tour from Stresa .
Multilingua Captains
Non-scheduled public service: shared transfer to Isola Bella
Hop-on hop-off boat ticket
Isola Bella Palace and Garden Entrance Ticket (euro 20,00 each person)
Food and drinks
Landing tax (euro 0,50)
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
24 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
aznajp,Sep 1, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
The charm of the 3 main islands: Bella, crazy and superior. Is to discover absolutely Especially with a quality boat with multiple stops .. small chip jumps of an average duration of 10 minutes Choose e.g. Summer boats
egallo2013,Jul 30, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
They disgues themselves as "the official" service, literally hooking you up when you are in the parking lot or in line to get the ticket from the official one. Instead they are nothing more than a private taxi company and, as usually happens in Italy for the taxies, it's a fraude. NO RECEIPT whatsoever, and when I asked to pay with credit card( I refused to pay off the books) the rate for the children ( she is 10 years old) that he offered me before, was suddenly only avalaible for infants only, so I had to pay the adult rate. SECURITY: The service, from a safety and security point of view it's an HAZARD and totally UNSAFE, as they don't secure themselves when getting at the hairbours with ANYTHING, they just mantain the boat in line with the engine on. Their attitude, when mentioning any of the above has been extremely arrogant, disgraceful and rude. DON'T TAKE IT, go for the OFFICIAL SERVICE instead
MattheaM,Aug 15, 2022
- Review from Tripadvisor
Convenient ticket to visit the islands. We only visited Isola Bella because there you are about 3/4 hours! You can then just sit on the boat, because Isola Bella is the last stop.

giuliolarovere,Jul 31, 2022
- Review from Tripadvisor
21/07/22, after booking tickets for the ferries tour MOTHER ISLAND and BEAUTIFUL ISLAND, with tours of visits to the aforementioned islands, we arrive at the boarding and there was no one. The other people at work for other companies told us, "Now someone's coming, wait here." After more than 20 minutes of waiting, the attendant arrives and tells us to head a hundred meters from the cage "under the white flag". We run and meet a guy who tells us that the boat had just left!!! . We point out that that inefficiency would have cost us another wait that would have forced us to visit MOTHER ISLAND in just 45 minutes not to miss the last ferry to BEAUTIFUL ISLAND. . We managed to do the whole excursion, the first one running, the second one more relaxed. We found the same attendant who, very nicely, asked us if we had made it... we answered affirmatively but we still complained about the disservice not dependent on our will... we were in time... it would have been enough to point IMMEDIATELY to the small pier and the white flag and we would not have lost 45 precious minutes for our visit. . I also add... what is the use of booking online, printing tickets and arriving on time if you then have to go with tickets online in a locker to get them "converted" into white tickets filled out by hand on a notebook??? . Imagine the difficulty for foreign tourists (even though the operators spoke most of the European languages) who decide to book online. . 3 stars just because the places are breathtaking... otherwise I would have put 2.
marcogM245SE,Apr 11, 2022
- Review from Tripadvisor
impeccable times , Perfect Service, to recommend it is very easy to use this Navigation Service
marco77 CN,Aug 29, 2021
- Review from Tripadvisor
Everything perfect My family was very happy.we visited isola dei Pescatori and the Isola Bella where we had Lunch. Nice
C1603,Aug 14, 2021
- Review from Tripadvisor
Very bad experience we spend our time waiting for the boats for half an hour or even three quarters of an hour because they do not all stop at the same places not to mention the fact that you have to pay 6€ more to have the right to go down to the Borromean Islands where there is not much to visit except the merchants and if you want to visit the palaces the rates are very high. Please allow for water as it is very difficult to find water at all stages of the tour.

pushtheprice1,Jun 23, 2021
- Review from Tripadvisor
Like three years ago, ineptitude and insolence. We wanted the ticket with which you can reach all stations, because we already knew the islands, especially to the other side of the lake. However, they have simply divided the stations into 3 areas so that you can not drive e.g. from Baveno to Luino. When we wanted to book the ferry to Bella at the counter he just went to the approaching ship and helped the other two inspectors stamp the 15 people
Alex9597,May 28, 2021
- Review from Tripadvisor
The lake is the boromees islands are beautiful The villages around the lake are splendid and the people so kind. Do not hesitate to visit the islands and villas with garden.
R3711TVguidoc,Sep 20, 2020
- Review from Tripadvisor
We took advantage of this convenient and timely Service with low costs that allowed us to tour the islands safely and without problems
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