Name: Golfo dei Poeti Relais
Address: Lerici, IT
Price range: From $480

Golfo dei Poeti Relais, LericiGolfo dei Poeti Relais in Lerici, Italy has a corrected score of 3.7 ± 0.2 (fair evidence, 2 of 4 platforms), ranked 4 of 8 hotels we score in Lerici. Its platform ratings, normalised to 0-5, average 3.8 before correction: Booking.com 3.9, Tripadvisor 3.7. Rooms from about $480 a night (cached, not a live quote).Golfo dei Poeti Relais is a five-star hotel in Montemarcello, a hilltop village in Liguria near Ameglia, with Sarzana and Lerici a short drive away. Many rooms, the restaurant and the breakfast room look out over the Ligurian Sea and the Gulf of Poets. Guests get a full-service spa with two indoor pools, two outdoor pools, Jacuzzis, a bio sauna, Turkish bath and Finnish sauna, plus a rooftop terrace used for yoga. There is a restaurant, free breakfast, free WiFi and free parking, and children are welcome. Rooms are modern and smoke-free. Pisa airport is roughly a 52-minute drive. At from $480 a night it is a costly choice, and some guests report slow service.What stands out

Friendly, helpful staff

Excellent breakfast quality

Good dinner at the restaurant

Spacious, comfortable rooms

Watch out for

Service can be slow

Expensive, from $480 a night

Better-scored in Lerici

Doria Park Hotel, Lerici: 3.8 ± 0.2 (fair evidence, 2 of 4 platforms). Doria Park Hotel is a modern, smoke-free three-star hotel in the centre of Lerici, a seaside town on the Gulf of Poets.

Florida Lerici Golfo Dei Poeti, Lerici: 3.7 ± 0.4 (thin evidence, 1 of 4 platforms). Hotel Florida is a family-run three-star hotel on the seafront at Lungomare Biaggini 35 in Lerici, facing the Golfo dei Poeti.

Europa Grand Hotel, Lerici: 3.7 ± 0.2 (fair evidence, 2 of 4 platforms). The Europa Grand Hotel is a three-star hotel on the Maralunga hillside above Lerici, set among olive groves on the Ligurian coast.