Travelling over for a wedding I stayed at the Albergo Piccolo Paradiso for 4 days, the hotel is located just next to the beach (woke up to the sound of waves each day) and the room was clean and comfortable, but there were a few downsides with the stay which is why I marked it at an overall 3. First of all as we arrived the employees at the hotel were all unable to speak any other language than Italian, being located so close to the French border I would have expected at least some basic French. So communicating was very difficult. . . When arriving in our room we discovered that the safe was locked and after several minutes of sign language and a mixture of English, French and a tiny bit of Italian a handyman came up to have a look. Only problem was that once he left we realised that instead of unlocking it, he locked it to the code of 1234 and we were unable to change it... hardly the most "safe" combinations.. So in the end we didn't use it. For parking there was a note about how the parking was somewhat limited in availability, but what wasn't mentioned was that this was also used for the restaurant located in the same building, so unless you were parking before it opened up for dinner it was impossible to get a space. So again, overall a good stay in a nice location but a few small downsides.

We really liked the view!

Everything is nice and prices are good. Great italian breakfast. Cosy restaurant at the hotel. 50 m from the sea. P.s. if you will order cheaper room so you will get view to railway and its noisy when train passes. order more expensive room so you will get sea view and quiet night. Good trip!

Appalling - tries hard lacks ability comes to mind. On our arrival they could not find our booking and it took forever to clarify that we had a room booked. Area to get to the hotel is busy, run down and dirty. Once on the beachfront its okay but directly behind the hotel wall is the train line. Room was spotlessly clean and bathroom looks new HOWEVER plumbing is disgraceful, toilet flushing noisy and water does not drain in shower therefore you are left standing in dirty shower water and shower cubicle also leaks so there is water all over bathroom floor. You can hear other guests in their rooms and also unfortunately the night we had booked they had a large party of young school children and parents in the restaurant below - the noise was undescribable and then it took until 1am for them to clear and obviously rearrange all the furniture due to all the scrapping sounds we could hear so we didn't get much sleep. The hotel should never have accepted our booking knowing this party was going to happen. Breakfast - well I wouldn't even give it 1 star and will only comment that we should have gone to a cafe. The lady serving breakfast was lovely and that was the only good thing at this so called hotel.

Appalling - tries hard lacks ability comes to mind. On our arrival they could not find our booking and it took forever to clarify that we had a room booked. Area to get to the hotel is busy, run down and dirty. Once on the beachfront its okay but directly behind the hotel wall is the train line. Room was spotlessly clean and bathroom looks new HOWEVER plumbing is disgraceful, toilet flushing noisy and water does not drain in shower therefore you are left standing in dirty shower water and shower cubicle also leaks so there is water all over bathroom floor. You can hear other guests in their rooms and also unfortunately the night we had booked they had a large party of young school children and parents in the restaurant below - the noise was undescribable and then it took until 1am for them to clear and obviously rearrange all the furniture due to all the scrapping sounds we could hear so we didnt get much sleep. The hotel should never have accepted our booking knowing this party was going to happen. Breakfast - well I wouldnt even give it 1 star and will only comment that we should have gone to a cafe. The lady serving breakfast was lovely and that was the only good thing at this so called hotel.

extremely friendly hotel staff-all spoke english. great location, good breakfast.

Initial appearance was a little off putting but soon discovered this to be a lovely hotel run by friendly people, restaurant serves superb pizzas, room modern and clean, overlooking the beach. Owner and staff went out of their way to be helpful and we couldn't have felt more welcome. Great alternative to the costly cote d'azure. Highly recommended.

Initial appearance was a little off putting but soon discovered this to be a lovely hotel run by friendly people, restaurant serves superb pizzas, room modern and clean, overlooking the beach. Owner and staff went out of their way to be helpful and we couldnt have felt more welcome. Great alternative to the costly cote dazure. Highly recommended.

Great hotel good service fantastic location if there was a downside train line runs close to hotel but you get used to it!

We really enjoyed our stay here even though it was only for one night on the way from France to Lake Como. The young lady on reception was delightful. We ate in their restaurant at night - my husband is still talking about his excellent meal of calamari! Breakfast was very good too. Everything was spotless.

Great location , great sea view , clean pleasant room and very friendly staff