Transfers from Milan Malpensa Airport to Lake Como

About this transfer

Malpensa sits to the north-west of Milan, on the plain between the city and the lakes, which puts it on the right side of Milan for Como. Give the driver the full name and street address of the hotel together with your flight number, a pickup time and how many of you are travelling with how much luggage. Lakeside hotels are spread across many separate villages and a hotel name on its own is not enough. The road leaves the airport across the Lombardy plain and reaches the lake at Como, where the water opens out between steep wooded hills. Beyond the town the lake roads are narrow and hug the shore, with villages strung along them, so the last part of the drive is slow going compared with the motorway. If your hotel is on the eastern shore or at the tip of the central promontory, expect the car to go around the lake rather than across it. Searching the return to Malpensa is a separate step with a separate pickup time, and the same shore road applies on the way back. The hotels around the lake are further down this page, and the sister page for transfers from Malpensa to Milan covers anyone splitting a stay between the city and the water.