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Garden Hotel offers 17 simple, bright, modern rooms, all with balconies (but most lack views due to the elevated street), a block from the beach on busy Corso Italia (Db-€120, newer fifth-floor room with sea views and terrace-Db-€150, 5 percent discount with cash and this book, closed mid-Nov-mid-March, air-con, elevator for fifth floor only, Wi-Fi

Sestri Levante, on a narrow peninsula flanked by two beaches, is for sun-seekers.

quiet, comfortable, impersonal, and modern. It has 10 big, sunny, air-conditioned rooms and a cool garden oasis complete with lemon trees. If you don’t mind stairs, try requesting one of their top-floor rooms, with great views from their terraces (Sb-€85, Db-€140, breakfast-€7, Wi-Fi,

$$$ Alla Marina is Riomaggiore’s most worthwhile splurge, with three rooms and an apartment (all but one with sea views) at the top of one of the very tall, steep, skinny buildings that rise up from the harbor. The furnishings are a stylish combination of modern and nautical, and friendly brothers Sandro and Andrea take pride in running a tight shi