Riomaggiore Hotels - Reviews and Rates

(Whitney)

We headed for Cinque Terre on Tuesday. We took the train from Florence, stopping briefly in Pisa to see the leaning tower and arrived in Riomaggiore, (the first of the five coastal towns that you can walk between) around dinner time. Our hostel had rooms all over the small town in thehigh rise buildings that are all squished in...

Aaaah...I made it!! When I came here and fell in love with the place 8 years ago, I swore I'd make it back...and I'm realising that dream now!! But it didn't come without a lot of stuffing around!! I got my bus from Barcelona to Milan...with only a few minor hiccups. The bus driver ran over two streetposts in Montpellier, it was hysterical!! And...

After a long and complicated train ride, we made it to Italy and the little town of Riomaggiore. This town is in an area of Italy called Cinque Terra which is in fact the most beautiful place in the world. We arrived without a place to stay, so we wandered up the one and only road in the town trying to find accommodations. Thankfully a random la...

A train today from one end of the Cinque Terre to the other - Monterosso - the largest and most commercialised of the five villages. It also boasts a beach although not a beach as we would consider it! The end with the smaller rocks and pebbles was roped off for the paying customers who were provided with deck chairs and umbrellas. Not that it w...

The Cinque Terre are 5 tiny fishing villages squeezed into a small area where the mountains meet the sea. It's amazingly beautiful, with hiking-walking trails between all the villages. While I was there I explored all the villages, walking random pathways through the hills, climbing to all the vantage points I could find. While you're there you ...