Hotel Due Mari

Very nice hotel and friendly staff. Old charm in an old building. Good services - excellent breakfast, lovely adult pool with fresh sea water, indoor pool (excellent when the weather is bad outside), well enough equipped gym, a bar and a restaurant if you prefer top stay in and eat. I had a nice hotel room last time I stayed and this time a two room apartment together with my husband - well equiped. Still with all services available from the hotel. The extra room came handy for all our hiking stuff. The hotel is nicely situated close to the sea and Baia dei Silezio. About 15 min walk from the train station, but it is a nice walk, mostly along the main street in the old city. I can really recommend this hotel.

The hotel is lovely, ideally situated between the two bays and in very easy walking distance to them both. The room was on the side of the hotel and it was ideal and from the top left hand corner of the window you got a sea view, an added bonus. The room was comfortable and was cleaned each day. The staff were superb and very friendly. The meals were gorgeous, so tasty and with a decent variety of choices.

We can't speak highly enough about our 6 night stay, excellent staff in particular all the front of house receptionists who couldn't be more helpful. The breakfasts were exceptional with so many choices, too many to name, cooked, pastries, fruit etc with all servers wearing white jackets. Really top class. The hotel has a labyrinth of gardens and stairs leading to yet another level of loungers and tables, even a fountain with turtles and two salt water pools (one heated indoor)- we used both. The front door of the hotel is approximately 50 steps to the sandy Bay of Silence beach. Yes the water was chilly but great. Our room was in what would be called the attic, but with a small balcony looking over the bay where we spent an hour each evening drinking chilled Prosecco from our fridge, having been purchased earlier in the day, prior to going out for dinner. The towels, sheets and toiletries seemed to be changed every day. Highly recommend this hotel.

Great old style charm hotel with attentive staff and solve it attitude. Meals were good and not so good but purely taste. Plentiful sbd breakfast was good. Best position between the two bays of Silence and Fairytales and an easy walk either through the old town or shore front to the station, 15 mins.

Hotel Due Mari is a 'classic' hotel from the timeless age of great service, great food, helpful and professional staff (front desk, restaurant, pool). It's the type of place you leave your key at reception when you go out, and the staff know who you are. They speak perfect English and reliably can organize cars and so forth. I told my daughters who were with us, "Enjoy this classic hotel as it's a rarity these days". We were a party with three rooms for four nights and I stayed in a fourth floor sea view room which had an excellent view. (A/C perfect, rooms always made up promptly, mini bar, internet easy). Rooms and bathrooms are small, which is of 'the age' when people were smaller. The shower was challenging! Breakfast was excellent with fresh eggs/bacon plus the full Euro spread. We had lunch once at the hotel and it was also top tier. The swimming pool area is an oasis surrounded by the town. Drink service at the pool is available late afternoon. The pool area was quiet and we spent hours there each day after our outings. The pool attendant was excellent, as was the server. Thank you for being so helpful. Also, free bikes to borrow which I did use. There is a nice bike path along the beach front. The location of the hotel is amazing. A public beach is literally 100 meters from the front door of the hotel. The area is surrounded by good restaurants/bars on the water and on the tourist street. There is ITALIAN CHARM EVERYWHERE. SECRET TIP. On the 5th floor of the main building (above reception) is a terrace with 360 views of Sestri Levante waterfront. Take the elevator to the fourth floor and use the 'secret' staircase to the terrace. It is great and we had 'happy hour' up there a few times including a take out pizza night. Hardly anyone used the terrace when we were there so let's keep it a secret okay? check out my pictures. Sestri Levanti location: the town is outside the Cinque Terre (five clifftop villages connected by hiking trails) dedicated trainline/ferry service so you must take a connecting train to Monterossa to visit Cinque Terre (20 mins train). That's the disadvantage. The advantage is Sestri Levanti is not over-run with too many tourists. In comparison Cinque Terre villages had an INSANE amount of tourists. In fact, in Sestri Levante over five days I never saw an American at the hotel or in town. Mostly Italian tourists and a splattering of Brits which explains why Hotel Due Marie got about two reviews a year on Tripadvisor over the last few years. Punchline: Sestri Levante is a great location and the hotel is in a great location in the Sestri Levante. I've been fortunate to have travelled and living abroad a fair bit from a very young age. I've stayed in crappy youth hostels and stayed at fancy hotels such as the Carleton in Cannes France and Fairmont Miramar Santa Monica for work. I have to say, in my experience, Hotel Due Mari was a real gem and a place of many fond memories. I'd go back in a heartbeat. Stay several

A wonderful Ligurian hotel, next to a special, one of the most beautiful free beaches in Italy, near the church, authentic interior, helpful staff, great view of the bay from the balcony, the room is not big but cozy, selection of toiletries ir bathroom. There is a heated seawater pool, perfect for relaxing after hiking.