Medusa - Finale Ligure, Italy 

My wife and I stayed at Hotel Medusa with our road bikes for eight days. The hotel is right on the water and we booked a "Star" room which overlooked the mediterranean. At night, we would open the patio doors and be put to sleep with the sounds of the waves coming onto the shore. The rooms was very clean and nice, and the staff was VERY helpful when we asked for any advice or guidance about the area. Each day, we'd either ride around from our hotel or hop on the train (400 meters from the hotel) and visit other areas on the Ligurian coast - sometimes even into France. The hotel has a large, neat storage room for our bikes on the ground floor that was equipped with some basic tools and a pump. The hotel restaurant has an outside terrace on the second floor where we took all of our meals. The view and atmosphere on this terrace were dreamy. We took the half-board option when reserving and found that the food was of very good quality. In addition to the friendly table service, the chef was very accomodating of our dietary needs and was always willing to prepare something off of the menu if we requested it from the day before. Final Ligure is small and charming. It would be perfect for anyone with young children because the town and beach clubs have many facilites and activities just for them. We passed through and stopped at many beach towns during our stay in Liguria but we never found a town as small, charming or as beautiful as Finale Ligure. Overall, I think we were very lucky to have chosen Hotel Medusa and Finale Ligure for our vacation.