Rina Rooms

When looking for places to stay in Cinque Terre during our honeymoon, Rina Rooms came up as one of the few places that was both a reasonable and nice looking.
Check in is in a small window from 2−5pm, and one of our connecting trains was sold out so we were a bit delayed, but the owners were kind enough to stay around a bit longer to wait for us. It’s a very short walk from the train station, although in the directions they send you they’ll mention that it’s just around the corner from an unnamed pizzeria, but the the street you’ll see first is called Via E. Vernazza and not Ettore. You’ll find that when you walk up E. Vernazza until you hit a fork and then go left, and you’ll be there. Google maps has it placed incorrectly on the right side of the fork.
We lucked out and got the largest room, which had a bedroom, small dining area and a bathroom of course. The kicker was the balcony and access to the rooftop patio, which has a couple cabana chairs and a table. When it was too hot to walk around sightseeing in the towns, that was a great place to catch some sun and have some wine, focaccia and limoncello. It was a lot to get for the price we paid, and how little real estate there was in Vernazza.
There was a lot of new furnishings in our room and the bathroom, which was nice. We were warned that the owners would come during in the afternoon to do laundry and re-​stock breakfast but we were rarely there at that time and they will also do your laundry for 5 euro per wash (air dried on racks and lines on the terrace).
Our bed was comfier than some we’d had on our trip in Italy. There was no air conditioning, which was unfortunate given the heatwave, but a couple fans helped make it tolerable.
Wifi quality was good.
Breakfast was fairly simple — pre-​packaged cornetti, cereal and toasts, as well as yogurt, milk and juice in the mini-​fridge in the bedroom. It was here that we were introduced to pear juice. Thick and very pear-​like, it was so good!
Payment is in cash only, but there are a few ATMs in town.
Rina Rooms has really friendly owners, and made for a great base of operations in a wonderful little town.