The location. The porch. The view. The restaurants.

Benvenuto Beach House set the bar unfairly high for the rest of trip in Italy! The location was absolutely perfect—steps from the beach and right in Monterosso’s old town, with shopping, cafés, and restaurants practically at our doorstep. A very convenient setup for people whose vacation plans revolved around eating, a little hiking, lots of beach time, and discussing where to eat next. We left the house right at sunrise to hike to Vernazza, and the location made getting started so easy. Apparently, we’re sunrise-hike people when the scenery is this good and the logistics require almost no thought! Inside was comfortable, the beds were great, and closing all the shutters while we were out helped keep the house cool. The primary bathroom was fully committed to the bathtub lifestyle, so we used the stand-up shower in the second bathroom. A tiny commute. We survived beautifully. The patio was the perfect place to wind down and enjoy our excellent decision-making skills. People walking by occasionally looked but no big deal. This was one of the most perfect stays we had in all of Italy. We would return in a heartbeat. We also had the chance to sit and chat with Angelo (wonderful man) at the end of our stay, which was such a lovely way to wrap up our visit. We really didn’t want to leave—and may have been keeping the conversation going in hopes that checkout would somehow cancel itself!

The only downside was people walking past our patio looking like they were mentally canceling their accommodations and plotting how to politely evict us. We understood. We wouldn’t have blamed them.

Posizione fantastica. Un paradiso

Lovely location on the beach-very noisy every night with parties near by and the train so loud until 2am then starts again at 5am!!

We came to benvenuto beach house because our current accomodations air conditioning didn’t work only to arrive at benvenuto beach house where we were told the aircon works for it not to. We were travelling with a 7 month old and this wasn’t acceptable in such hot weather. The host did try to fix the aircon but it didn’t work. He also offered a discount because of the inconvenience however then said no he would give us one.