Going to travel, first of all you need to make a clear route and schedule (well, at least approximate). It is clear that the plan and the route is all the theory, but in practice, when you find yourself in a foreign city and someone else's country, all the more, it is very different. Nevertheless, if you just go, without a plan, the trip turns chaos, but the route makes some clarity in this chaos.
Moving and transport can also be part of chaos, and to fix it first of all it is worth determining how exactly you will get and wherever. It's one thing if you drive to Milan, Rome or Venice, everything is simple there - the city is big, the airport is close, it is not difficult to get to the hotel. But Lake Garda is a completely different business, the lake is one and large (surface area of 370 km2, and the length of the coastline is 158 kilometers), on the coast there is a dozen small towns, so you have to choose where to go, railway stations are in three cities. On the other hand, it is quite irrational to stay all the time in one town, because all the coast there is a lot of interesting things, it is literally everything, but if you are going to swim and sunbathe, it doesn't make sense to move from place to place, it is better to choose one town , good hotel with a beach and enjoy the rest on a pebble or sandy beach.
So, Lake Garda is located in the territory of the three provinces - Lombardy, Veneto and Trentino, so if you fly by plane, you can choose Milan Airport, Verona or Bergamo. For example, the direct flight Kiev-Milan costs 280 euros in both directions for one adult. If you decide to fly to Verona, you will have to make a transplant in Munich, and the ticket costs will be about 380 euros. From Verona, it will be easier to get to the coast, from the port station of Nova, every hour walks the train to Desavenzano Sirmione - the town on the coast, the cost of the ticket is only 3.5 euros, and the time in the way will take less than an hour.
If you fly to Milan, then the train station has been walking from the Central Station to the train station every half hour, the time in the way is a little more than an hour, and the cost of a ticket is about 20 euros for one adult.
Also, both from Milan and from Verona can not go to Sirmione, but to the city of Pescier Del Garda. From Milan, the train can be reached in an hour and a half, the ticket costs 25 euros for one adult one way, and from Verona can be reached even faster in just 20 minutes and the ticket will stand about 10 euros.
Another option to go by bus. For example, from Verona to the towns on the coast go there are several flights. By the way, if there is no possibility to take the car, the bus remains the only way to travel around the coast. Naturally, the bus journey will take longer than the train. From Verona from 6-30 am to 8 pm every hour, buses route №163 Verona-Bussollengo-Sandra-Sandra Cola Laziez Garda are departed, from which the last three are just on the lake. For example, you will reach Lazie for 4 hours, the cost of the ticket is only 4 euros. Another route from Verona - №162 Verona-Garda Malkhesine Riva del Garda. This route is more suitable for tourists, because from Verona, the bus goes straight to the predicker, and then travels throughout the eastern coast of the lake, passing such cities: Lazi-Bardolino Garda Torri del Benaco-Brentzone-Malcein-Torrel Nagu-Riva Del Garda. At the bus station you can take the exact route schedule.
Thus, you will reach the coast of the lake and there are already complete freedom of action, although no, then it will not quite be convenient to travel around the neighborhood. If you have the opportunity at Milan or Verona airport, you should take a car for rental, the Voltswagent Polo for a week will cost 180 euros approximately, you can additionally buy insurance, which if that it covers broken glasses and mirrors and even the lost key. Thus, you can easily examine everything, if you don't like one city, you can go on any time without losing time.
The option with the car is the most optimal, you can also go straight from the house on your car, truth will have to go long, time on the way only behind the wheel will take more than 23 hours. It will most conveniently go through Hungary and Slovenia. The border between Italy and Slovenia is better to cross in Ceseno and further throughout Italy it is worth going along the E70 highway along the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea. On the way, you can visit such cities like Padova, Vicenza and Verona. On the way, you will also use a paper card (they are sometimes more reliable than technical innovations), well, it is still worth taking GPS, even if with them there are problems, especially in small towns. Once we drove into such a wilderness that I wanted to quit everything, leave the car and go back on foot, because I trusting this miracle of the technicians drove into the brief some old street, at the end of which was a dead end with a deaf wall, but this toy showed, That there was passage and even turn in 20 meters.
These are the streets in Sirmione, for example.
So how and where to go to decide to you, in any case the trip will be remembered as a wonderful time on the coast of one of the most picturesque lakes of Northern Italy.