Excellent dive center offering PADI courses - including PADI TecRec courses for dives below 40m…read more Professional, customer oriented, friendly and helpful staff. Courses are taught in Italian, Spanish and English. In case you're interested in diving or snorkelling with a full face mask, here's your chance! The center also offers sun beds and umbrellas as well as showers, toilet and change rooms. Make sure to reserve your spot during the weekend! There's a bar/restaurant next door, well actually: 'above', offering food and drinks.

This was one of the coolest experiences I found while I was in Italy. They have a link on their…read morewebsite for accommodations. Click farm inn - Agriturismo Terre Rosse Portofino - where you can reserve the little farm to table Inn to spend the night. There is a waterfall next to the Inn. They provide breakfast and dinner each day. Once you're done diving you get dropped off at this little dock in the area the Christ of the Abyss is located and you have to hike up the mountain. Yes, I said hike. So pack light! Then they come pick you up the next morning for your day of diving. When we did this tour, we were fairly new divers (I mean like 10 dives) and the water was rough! Portofino Divers is a group of Tech Divers so they don't call dives for much. The swells were insane. I was underweighted and the water was freezing. But they helped us and they were super patient. One of the divers even took my GoPro and took videos and photos for me. Those were some of the deepest dives we've ever done (34-36 Meters!). We did get to see the Christ statue even with the visibility being terrible. We also did our first drift dives here. Great memories and I would highly recommend this operation. They have showers you can use back at the dive shop too.

Bruno and his team offer perfect Service, everything is in a good shape. Equipment is more or less…read morenew and in a perfect condition. The Boot is clean, fast and the captain knows what he is doing. Specially for technical diving this is the first adress around Portofino. Thanks! We will be back!

I love this place. It's as pretty as it is in pictures…read more Short story: Woke up at 6am to catch the 7am train to Cinque Terre and guess what?! The train conductors decided to go on strike that day. People at the station said all regional trains are canceled this morning. I was about to cry because the #1 thing I most looked forward to was visiting Cinque Terre on this trip. Everything happens for a reason, right? Somehow at 9am, a train decided to take off going to Pisa, which connects to Cinque Terre. We got to Cinque Terre around 11:30am. Late start to the day but I finally got there. I visited and walked all 5 towns. Each one is special in it's own way. The five towns are called Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore. Most people would say Manarola is the prettiest, not going to disagree with that but I actually love Corniglia the most. Maybe because you have to climb a few (a lot) steps to get there. It's small and charming once you get to the top and you can see Manarola. I had the best gelato there and I have eating a lot of gelato during my 2 week trip in Italy. Each town has their own special food too. A lot of street food which was awesome. When I do visit again, I would stay a night at least to do the full hike and enjoy all the towns a little more. I cant wait to get back.

Cinque Terre translated into English is roughy "5 Lands" but it is more like "5 Villages."…read more Daniele was a great tour guide! He is very knowledgeable and passionate about his village of Manarola... And the other 4 "Cinque Terre!" The villages are only accessible by local trains from La Spezia train station or Levanto. It takes about 15min to arrive to Manarola from la Spezia (but take an earlier train because Italian trains are often very late and crowded!) We did the morning tour, meeting Daniele close to the marina at 9:45am. There were 12 of us on the boat (all Americans so communication was easy). Daniele speaks almost perfect English so the tour went very smoothly. He drove us past the Cinque Terre giving a very nice history of how his forefathers turned a very steep/rock facade into a fertile farming area. Fighting off pirate attacks and later becoming fishermen. Cinque Terre has a very deep and amazing history that Daniele tells as you pass some of the most beautiful scenery! Daniele stopped the boat for two separate swims in the Mediterranean Sea! Daniele was very helpful as to where to swim and not to. How not to use your legs (avoiding kicking the rocks) and how to climb the rocks without slipping! We dove off rocks, took a refreshing shower in a natural waterfall and swam the clearest of blue water! I cannot say enough of Daniele and his 2.5hr tour! He provides beer, water, wine, sodas. He was considerate to the children on our tour who began feeling a little sea sick. Bring sun screen!!!! There is no room on his boat for your luggage; we left ours in a "Left Luggage" for $9 euro (3 bags) at La Spezia Train Station. Hotels are NOT easy to find in Cinque Terre so make reservations far in advance or stay outside in La Spezia.

The most amazing boat tour in the CT. This is a 4 hour ride where you get to see the entire coast…read moreand all 5 villages from the water. Unlimited prosecco, apps, and food. Our guide was really sweet and funny and they provide snorkel masks and swimming noodles. We got to stop to swim twice which was a lot of fun. This was worth the bit of extra money as we had a long, wonderful day on the water. Our boat also only had 5 people on it (me and my boyfriend and 3 older people) so we basically had the boat to ourselves and could sit wherever we liked.

Definitely the best tour of our vacation. Angelo is the best…read more My husband had read about Angelo's Boat Tours prior to leaving on vacation, but he was worried they would not be up and running because we were there early in the season. During our trip my husband wrote to Angelo, and imagine our pleasure when we found out the sea was going to be calm enough to go out on the boat. Angelo is a dear as is his wife Paula. We met the boat at the dock at Monterosso and were quickly greeted and helped onto the boat. Angelo took us on a leisurely evening trip to show us all the towns, while giving us an explanation of the local flavor of each town. Angelo is very charming and provided us with proseco to drink while on the boat. We then stopped at a marvelous restaurant with Angelo, Il Porticciolo in Manarola before heading to view the last town of Riomaggiore. A great time was had by all. Paula had made us dinner reservations in Vernazza, which was definitely the best dinner of the trip. Make sure when you are going to Cinqueterre that you plan to spend time on Angelo's boat. You will be delighted, as we were.

They cancelled on us late in the afternoon leaving us stranded with no other options the day before…read morewe left. They didn't even offer to help find another solution.

Great service and captain on a private boat tour. We stopped for a swim and I had the opportunity…read moreto see all the Cinque Terre villages from the boat with prosecco provided. Highly recommend Tiburon!

The two brothers who run the boat and narrate are fun and interesting. They provide the right…read moreamount of folklore and fact. Sunset makes the lighting spectacular on the mountainside. Highly recommend!

Going out on the boat with Daniele was probably one of the best things we did while in Cinque…read moreTerre. It was nice to see all five towns from this vantage point which also oriented us for our hike. Swimming and snorkeling in the secluded was also beautiful. Daniele is an experienced captain and a native of Manarola, he has a vast knowledge of Cinque Terre and its history. He is a charming person and his friendliness rubbed off on everyone aboard. I highly recommend this excursion!!