Lonely Planet and the Cinque Terre – Reader Feedback

Hi, thanks for a great web site, it is helping us plan our holiday there. One thing I’m hoping you could help us with (because I have no idea where to start) is how could we find out if we could get (legally) married there? We are simply after a celebrant, just the two of…

My wife and I visited CT in early May. Frankly, we were a bit disappointed in all the villages, except Vernazza, which is attractive and quaint. The others have little to offer in that regard. As another individual commented, the trains are too few and too far between, not to mention how hard it can…

The trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore is still closed. Don’t listen to the Information worker in Monterosso about the availability of hotel rooms in Vernazza. She told us not to worry – yet, after we hiked there (that trail is open and quite rigorous!) we had to search for a room – finally ending up…

We just got back to Holland (we are American’s living overseas for 3-5 years) from a wonderful Italian visit where we got to visit Cinque Terra. You CAN drink red wine there, as the web page mentions, but it’s not made locally. The wine that is local is white wine, and we enjoyed it very…

Thank you for compiling the information in this web site. We found it while searching for Cinque Terre, and found it very helpful. In fact we printed out numerous pages and took them with us for our visit last week. We stayed at the Bed and Bed il Girasole. We tried corresponding with several B&B…

We just returned from Riomaggiore. We spent a week. It was great. Yes, it does get crowded in the daytime with tour groups, but there were few tourists at night. We saw a few young backpackers bit most had already returned to school. Thank you for the website, it was most helpful. We booked through…