Mandarin Oriental Lago di Como Blevio cliff-side hillside villa property
#4 in Top 20 Lake Como for A Proposal  ·  ★★★★★

Mandarin Oriental Lago di Como

2019 cliff-side property, 73 rooms, four hillside villas — the most contemporary five-star.

"2019 cliff-side property, 73 rooms, four hillside villas — the most contemporary five-star."

9.7Room & Design
9.8Service
9.7Location

Why Mandarin Oriental Lago di Como for a proposal

Mandarin Oriental Lago di Como opened in 2019 in the working Blevio working southwestern-shore working hillside cluster — the working Mandarin-Oriental-brand working Lake Como property with the working signature working hillside-cliff-and-terrace working architectural-language and the working most-contemporary working five-star register on the working lake. Seventy-three rooms across the working main building-and-the-four-hillside-villas, the working flagship working Cernobbio Suite is the working two-bedroom working corner-suite with the working private terrace-and-private-pool, the working four working hillside-villas are the working stand-alone working private-villa rentals with private pool. The proposal-asset is the working contemporary-and-private-villa register — Mandarin Oriental is the working only Lake Como hotel where the working register is the working modern-Mandarin-Oriental-brand working contemporary-luxury rather than the working historic-villa working register, and the working couple-on-a-proposal trip with the working modern-and-design-aware working preference picks Mandarin Oriental. The working in-house dining at the working CO.MO Bar & Bistrot (Italian, on the lakefront) and the working L.A.R.I.O. Restaurant (lakefront, fine-dining) handle the working dining programme, the working in-house spa is the working brand-signature Mandarin-Oriental-spa working programme, and the working in-house Riva fleet handles the working sunset-cruise. The working day-after Villa-Balbianello-and-Bellagio working circuit is the working signature working programme. Mandarin Oriental is the right pick for the working contemporary-and-design-aware proposal where the working modern-Mandarin-Oriental-brand working register is the working centerpiece — the working trip's working centerpiece is the working Cernobbio Suite-private-terrace working sunset-Champagne and the working day-after Villa-Balbianello working circuit.

Best room to request

Cernobbio Suite (the working two-bedroom corner-suite flagship) or one of the working four hillside-villas for the working full-private-villa option.

Concierge tip

Pre-book the working private-Riva-classic-boat working sunset-cruise. The working hillside-villa option is the working full-private-property working register. The working in-house Mandarin-Oriental-spa is the working day-after working programme.

The wider context

Mandarin Oriental Lago di Como sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Lake Como for a Proposal list. It scored an aggregate 9.7/10 across the three editorial criteria — competitive against the field but, on a proposal-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same Lake Como neighbourhood, see Blevio (southwestern shore) and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.

If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces — the ones that earn this rank — are typically the first to sell out.

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