Fourteen rooms above the harbour at Cala Morvi, since 1911. Open the shutters; the rest is arranged.
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Hotel Verrane · since 1962
Every key still hangs on a numbered hook behind the bar. Nobody has ever lost one; several have gone home by accident.
A harbour-master’s house from 1911, fourteen rooms with the shutters still on their first hinges, a kitchen that cooks what the boats bring in, and thirty-eight steps down to the sea.
Breakfast
Until 11:30, cooked to order at your table
Check-in
From 14:00, or leave your bags from 09:00
The sea
38 steps from the garden gate to the jetty
Getting here
55 minutes from Genova by car, or the ferry
The rooms · Fourteen in all
Five ways to wake up at Verrane.
Every room has shutters, a window that opens properly and a bed made with linen dried on the roof. Scroll to open them one by one.
01 / 05
Harbour Room
22 m² · Harbour view · Queen bed · Second floor
From €240 a night · breakfast included
Room 01 · Harbour Room
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Balcony Room
24 m² · South balcony · King bed · Third floor
From €290 a night · breakfast included
Room 02 · Balcony Room
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Stone Room
26 m² · Garden side · Twin or king · Ground floor
From €210 a night · breakfast included
Room 03 · Stone Room
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Terracotta Room
20 m² · Courtyard · Double bed · First floor
From €180 a night · breakfast included
Room 04 · Terracotta Room
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Garden Suite
42 m² · Private garden · King bed · Freestanding bath
From €420 a night · breakfast included
Room 05 · Garden Suite
Breakfast until 11:30
Late checkout until 14:00, just ask
Sea 19°C this morning
38 steps to the jetty
No lift: we carry the bags
Dogs welcome in the Garden Suite
Bicycles to borrow
Aperitivo on the roof at 18:30
Sala Verrane · The restaurant
Dinner is whatever the boats brought in.
Seven tables on the terrace, a menu written at five in the afternoon and a wine list from the hills behind the town. Open to guests and to anyone who books.
Tonight, Thursday
From 19:30
Raw red prawns, lemon, bitter leaves
€18
Trofie with basil from the terrace
€16
Whole bream baked in salt, for two
€58
Fennel, orange and black olive
€9
Lemon cake, 1962 recipe
€8
Things to do · Six favourites
Days that start at the jetty and end on the roof.
Every morning
As long as you like
Swim from the jetty
Thirty-eight steps down from the garden gate to the hotel's own stone jetty, towels and a ladder waiting. The water is clear to the bottom by eight.
Included
Half day
4 hours
Boat to the sea caves
Out with Tullio in his wooden gozzo to the caves under Punta Sera, swimming stops on the way and lunch packed by the kitchen.
€85 a person
Morning
2 hours
Olive grove walk
A gentle walk up through the terraces to the Bellandi family's grove, a tasting of this year's oil and a slow walk back for lunch.
€30 a person
Afternoon
3 hours
Cliff path to the lighthouse
Eleven kilometres there and back along the old coastguard path, with a map drawn by our concierge and a swim at the halfway cove.
Included
Saturday
3 hours
Market morning with the chef
Shop the Saturday market with Chef Aurelio, then cook what you bought together in the hotel kitchen and eat it on the terrace.
€60 a person
Evening
90 minutes
Stone sauna and cold plunge
Our wood-fired sauna in the old boat store, a cold plunge in the sea straight after, and a glass of something warm by the fire.
€40 for two
1911
Year the harbour-master’s house was built
Every room still faces the water it was built to watch.
14
Rooms and suites
No two the same size, all with their original shutters.
38
Steps from the garden to the sea
Our own stone jetty, towels and coffee waiting.
4.9
Guest rating, out of five
From 612 stays, written in the book by the door.
The house · 1911 to today
Built to watch the harbour. Kept to look after you.
Eighty-four pairs of shutters, each numbered and rehung in its own window when we restored the house stone by stone.
1911
Built as the harbour-master’s office and customs house.
1962
The Verrane family opens eight rooms and a dining room.
2019
Restored stone by stone; every original shutter kept.
Today
Fourteen rooms, one kitchen, the same view.
Rates · per room, per night
Honest prices, breakfast always included.
Low · Nov to Mar
Mid · Apr, May, Oct
High · Jun to Sep
€140
€180
€230
€160
€210
€270
€180
€240
€310
€220
€290
€380
€320
€420
€560
Tourist tax of €3 per person per night, paid at the hotel. Free cancellation up to 7 days before arrival. Children under 4 stay free.
Guests · 4.9 from 612 stays
What people write in the book by the door.
“We opened the shutters on the first morning and didn’t close them again for a week.”
Balcony Room · June 2026
“Breakfast at eleven, a swim at twelve, lunch at two. Nobody hurried us once.”
Garden Suite · August 2026
“The kind of place you stop recommending to friends because you want the room.”
Harbour Room · May 2026
Journal · Notes from the front desk
Stories from Cala Morvi, written by the people who work here.
Cala Morvi
The harbour at six
What you see from the Harbour Room if you are up before the boats: a short guide to the morning, and who is who on the quay.
Planning
What to pack for a September week
The sea is at its warmest, the evenings turn cool and the hill paths are dry. A short, honest list from the front desk.
Makers
Ceramics from the lane behind the hotel
Every plate at breakfast comes from Studio Ferro, forty metres up Vico dei Pescatori. We asked Sara Ferro how she glazes them.
Getting here · Via del Porto 4, Cala Morvi
Fifty-five minutes from the airport, or twenty by boat.
By air
Genova airport, 55 minutes by car. We send a driver for €90 each way.
By train
Cala Morvi station is a 12-minute walk. Tell us your train and we collect the bags.
By sea
The ferry from Porto Alto takes 20 minutes, April to October, every hour.
By car
Park at Garage Molo, 300 m away, €18 a day. The old town is closed to cars.
Hotel Verrane
Via del Porto 4, 16039 Cala Morvi · +39 0185 204 911 · stay@verrane.example
Open April to November · 14 rooms
Your shutters are waiting.
Book directly with us for the best rate, a bottle of the house white on arrival and late checkout when the room is free.