Condominio Ulivi

Condominio Ulivi sits in the hills above Cinque Terre, in the quiet locality of Caraschi — a position that keeps it well clear of the coastal crowds while remaining within reach of the five villages and their coastal trails. As a three-star hotel with a rating of 8.8 across 24 reviews, it occupies a particular niche in this part of Liguria: a place that trades the drama of clifftop views for space, calm, and a functioning outdoor pool, which is a genuine rarity in a region where most accommodation is stacked into narrow terraced lanes with no room to spare.

The surrounding landscape is olive groves and hillside scrub rather than harbor fronts and gelato queues, which suits a certain kind of traveler well — families especially, who benefit from the family rooms on offer and from the kind of breathing room that the Cinque Terre villages themselves simply cannot provide. Free parking here is not a trivial detail: the coastal towns are largely car-free, and driving into the area without a reliable place to leave a vehicle quickly becomes its own logistical problem. Guests who arrive by car and plan to use the regional train network to hop between Vernazza, Corniglia, and Riomaggiore will find the arrangement practical. Check-out at 09:30 is early enough to push guests onto the trails before the day-trippers arrive from La Spezia, while a noon check-in gives returning hikers time to recover before settling in.