Name: Affittacamere Monica
Address: Piazza Don Giovanni Minzoni, 5, 19016 Monterosso al Mare SP, Italy, Monterosso al Mare, Monterosso al Mare, Monterosso al Mare, 19016, Italy
Rating: 8

Smoke-free property

Heating

Private check-in/check-out

All Spaces Non-Smoking (public and private)

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Non-smoking rooms

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Free Wi-Fi

Internet

English

Italian

French

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No parking

Parking

Fax and copy machine

Business

Pets Not Allowed

Pets

Location

At the hotel

Monterosso Beach

Fegina Beach

Piazza Colombo

Palazzo della Prefettura

Piazza de Ferrari

Teatro Carlo Felice

Piazza Matteotti

Cattedrale di San Lorenzo

Palazzo Rosso

Palazzo Doria Tursi

Genoa City Hall

Rolls Palaces

Strada Nuova Museums

Grimaldi Palace

White Palace

Old Harbor

Aquarium of Genoa

The Bigo Lift

Galata Maritime Museum

Castello d'Albertis

Piazza Acquaverde

Affittacamere Monica

Monterosso al Mare

child-bed

child-bed-fee

external-private-bathroom

private-bathroom

shared-bathroom

10-beds

11-beds

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18-beds

19-beds

2-beds

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3-beds

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4-beds

40-beds

5-beds

6-beds

7-beds

8-beds

9-beds

king-bed

queen-bed

limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

sunrise-view

sunset-view

water-view

with-view

annex

basement

main-building

1-bedroom

2-bedrooms

3-bedrooms

4-bedrooms

5-bedrooms

6-bedrooms

not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

Once you have found this place, no thanks at all to google maps, put aside the steps to get up to the first floor and all is good. It's location opposite the main church in Monterosso is very very good. It is close to everything with great restaurants less than 50 metres from the front door.
Rooms are clean and beds comfortable.
The host is easy to get along with and language problems soon disappear.
Best of all and very rare in Italy there is a kettle with tea and coffee making facilities in your room as well as a fridge.

Good location, don't let the stairs put you off

Having read the very mixed reviews of Monica, I was a little worried about what we would find when we arrived, but I was very pleasantly surprised. Certainly, the steps are ridiculously steep, and I don't think I would have been able to get our suitcase up, but fortunately my husband could! We had the room at the front, which is large, with a settee/3rd bed as well as the double bed, and the most storage space I have ever encountered anywhere, in any hotel in the world! The shower room is small but perfectly adequate, the room is clean, there is a kettle and the windows keep out nearly all noise from the street below. For the price we paid, I couldn't fault the room.

Can't fault it!

I have intended to write this review for a long time and my son prompted me again yesterday as he still recalls it as the worst place we have ever stayed. It may have changed hands since though so just in case! It was an older lady that owned it when we stayed. I paid her cash for B&B for two night for one adult and two children. We were desperate as it was a Saturday when we arrived and we could not find any accommodation. We asked in a jewellery shop and the lady phoned Monica's and got us a room. It was one double bed for the three of us the first night and then we moved to her other room the following night which catered for 3. The arrangement was that as she did not do breakfast she said we could get breakfast at her friends shop which was a wine shop/cafe I paid her the agreed price to include this. On our second morning as we were about to leave to go get breakfast she appeared at our door and started to shout at me in a mix of Italian and English about the price she had been charged by her friend for our breakfast! She said we were not allowed to have milk, that it was very expensive and should have only had coffee and a croissant.  No one told us this or discussed what we were or were not allowed to have. We had a bowl of cereal each and a coffee for me and milk for the kids. She literally threw a plastic bag at my feet and said there's your breakfast, the bag contained 3 cartons of juice (the really cheap stuff) and three tiny packs of plain biscuits. I told her this was unacceptable and I was going to phone the police. She said she was going to get her husband. I felt so intimidated. It's a tiny space at the top of a deadly flight of the steepest concrete stairs and I was by then feeling quite scared. My kids were seven and nine and the youngest was crying. I packed our bags and left, forfeiting whatever I had paid her.

Very unpleasant experience

This room was very difficult to find and if it wasn't for a older lady who had a cell phone we would never have found the place even after asking shop owners in the area where "Monica" was? A 20 minute walk from the train station. Location was just across from the Beetlejuice striped type church. Nonetheless since the room was right in the midst of the square the noise level was high late into the night ( restaurant right below us) and then the noisy garbage collectors appeared at 4 am. Steep stairs to the apartment. Room was small with one large firm bed. No AC just a ceiling fan which was very dusty I asked it it could be cleaned because of my allergies to dust which Silvana did.The WiFi connection was excellent. Bathroom is dated and moldy, toilet just in front of the wall so not very much room. Shower was small. Remember those toilet chains you pull from the ceiling to flush??? Useless fridge, more noise than efficiency.Silvana offered us beach towels so that we could sit on the beach..nice gesture.

Location good if you can find the entrance...

This is a room only accommodation and therefore warrants its 3 stars. There are exceptionally steep stairs leading to a second floor where there are two rented out rooms. One at the back is smaller with a Juliet balcony with very little view as looks onto small internal area. One at the front is good size, comfortable bed, storage adequate and a Large window opening to the square and directly opposite the church (bells are not a problem and add to location). Room is clean and adequate. Bathroom is very very small. We were given a key on arrival and didn't see anyone until we left. Great location albeit nosey at the front but to be expected. Would use again. Monterossa was a great base for the cinque terre.

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