Hotel Arc En Ciel Diano Marina

Welcome to a unique place where the Hotel and the the Western Ligurian Sea blend into an embrace that pampers its guests with nature’s sounds and scents.

Staying with us is to plunge into an experience where the private beach, the solarium terrace, and the sea view restaurant together compose a microcosm of total relaxation. The Greco Family is delighted to welcome you to the Hotel Arc en Ciel, for two generations.

BEACH SEA FRONT ROOM
At night you’ll be rocked by the lapping of waves…Visualizing the Arc en Ciel as if it was a three-story attic composed by a private beach, terrace, and hotel, the guests in these rooms are a step from the beach, that extends under the balcony with a sea-level view.

COMFORT SEA FRONT VIEW ROOM
Conceived for those who think of a holiday as a long embrace, it’s our most spacious room. Early morning guests can admire spectacular sunrises from the seafront balcony over the Gulf of Diano Marina and Cervo.

STANDARD FRONT SEA VIEW ROOM
How beautiful are the Gulf of Diano Marina and Cervo admired from your balcony! You could spend hours on the balcony admiring Diano Marina’s Gulf and Cervo forgetting that this room is slightly smaller than the Comfort Sea Front View Rooms.

RESTAURANT AND BAR
On the Riviera of Flowers: a voyage among experience and flavors of Imperia and the surrounding area.  The sheer panoramic sea terrace, this is where you’ll have breakfast and dinner (in good weather), while dinner is served inside the restaurant.

Massimo, our chef, and Daniele, our headwaiter, will propose a selection of dishes from land and sea, prepared with ingredients mostly from farms around Diano’s gulf and Imperia’s hinterland.

The seasonal flavors, enhanced by Taggiasca extra virgin olive oil, are intensified by the aromas of local and national wines. We offer special dishes, that are just as tasty, to vegetarians and those with food intolerances.

During the preparation of gluten-free dishes, we follow AIC (Italian Celiac Association) instructions. Choose your favorite treatment: BB (bed and breakfast), half board, or full board, customize your stay in a sea-front Hotel in Diano Marina!

At any time you wish to satisfy your appetite, you can approach the bar, opened from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Marco, our barman, will express all his creativity preparing cocktails and aperitifs, with or without alcohol, and suggest the right combination with snacks or the à la carte Menù, available at lunchtime.

THE BREAKFAST
The best way to start the day on the Ligurian Riviera. We offer local cheeses from nearby valleys: Alta Valle Argentina, Alta Valle Arroscia and Alta Valle Nervia. Cakes are prepared by our pastry chef and jams are made only with organic fruit.

Our hot buffet proposes a choice of bacon, scrambled or hard-boiled eggs. We offer three different kinds of fresh bread, together with cereals, dried fruit and juices made with fresh, seasonal fruit.

SPA & WELLNESS
Add wellness to your experience on the Riviera of Flowers. Mondays and Thursdays, from June to mid-September, we offer the opportunity to practice yoga for free or to receive a massage on our solarium terrace between sea and sky.

MASSAGES
Valeria, our professional shiatsu practitioner, can help you to achieve a better awareness of your psycho-physical condition thanks to her shiatsu treatments and stress-relief massages. In the background, of the gazebo turned into a massage room, the sounds of nature: the lapping of waves and the chirp of seagulls.

Choose one of the shiatsu treatments, that thanks to the acupressure that characterizes this discipline, acts upon the body meridians, rebalancing psychophysical energies. If instead, you prefer to relax with holistic treatment, we suggest an oil massage, and Valeria will know which one is more suitable to better hydrate and moisturize your skin.

THE BEACH
What kind of holiday is it if you don’t relax? Our beach is a natural offshoot of the Hotel with beach loungers lined on the platform reaching for the sea. Crystal clear water and shallow shore make it a perfect starting point for canoe and stand up paddle trips.

PRACTICE YOGA BY THE SEA
Those who practice yoga are aware of how much the environmental context influences our wellbeing. A yoga lesson on our terrace is the best way to get in touch with oneself and the surrounding environment. For those who have never tried it before, it could be an opportunity to get to know a millennial practice together with our teachers Deborah and Raquel.

There is a multitude of Yoga versions, we offer hatha yoga and we have chosen it for its beneficial effects on lengthening the spine and improving flexibility of muscles and tendons. Care dedicated to breathing helps to reinvigorate each part of the body and to better inhale the scent of the sea and the surrounding vegetation.

STAND UP PADDLE
Stand up paddling is increasingly appreciated by our guests as it allows you to admire the seabed and the surrounding landscape from an unusual point of view, as well as exercise and tone your muscles thanks to the continuous effort to keep your balance on the board.

For those who are not practical but are curious to experience the “Sup”, we provide, upon request, qualified instructors for a number of lessons sufficient to ride the board safely and with the greatest benefit for the musculoskeletal system.

VISIT DIANO MARINA &  ITS SURROUNDINGS
Diano Marina is a small town with five thousand inhabitants, six kilometers from Imperia, the biggest town in the area and we recommend you reach it via the cycling and pedestrian path which starts three kilometers from the Arc en Ciel.

Diano Marina’s economy is based on tourism and typical Ligurian cultivations – basil, olive groves, and vineyards – from where excellent local products are obtained: pesto, Taggiasche olives and Vermentino wine.

To our guests who wish to stay for a few days and to visit some of the characteristic villages we suggest to visit the very close Cervo, a fisherman’s hamlet perched on the sea and known for its Chiesa dei corallini (church of coral fishermen), built with the income of coral fishing.

Art lovers can venture to Dolceacqua, close to the French border, to admire the bridge captured, together with the castle, by Monet while sipping a glass of Rossese, the local wine.

Remaining in the artistic sphere, close to San Remo, it is possible to admire Bussana Vecchia, a village partly destroyed by the 1887 earthquake and repopulated, at the end of the ‘50s by a group of artists from all over Europe, that restored it, making it unique.

Finally, if on your way back home you are passing by Savona, we recommend you make a stop a few kilometers before, at Finalborgo, where the structure, stone houses and medieval walls of the ancient “Burgum Finarii” are still preserved.

Rooms: 20

Price: from 115 EUR per night

Source: www.hotelarcenciel.it