Stayed on ship; however heard from others that it was well worth the trip to see how their grape vines are grown, so different than everywhere else. ...
Such a pretty place! Low rise buildings and all white. Shame it was Sunday and most were closed, but the main street was open with some good bargains. Would like to return some day. ...
The "local" beach, about 10 mins away, was not as calm and safe as I thought it would be. Would probably have been better to have taken a taxi to the next beach. ...
Was not impressed with the look of the port so we did not get off the ship. There wasn't even any market stalls close to the ship that we could have looked at. I would never want to visit here again. ...
We actually went to La Spezia rather than Livorno. We toured on our own by taking a ferry to Portovenere and Cinque Terre. Wonderful and easy. We weren't in port long enough to get off at all of the Cinque Terre towns. ...
If you do nothing else walk along to the Gran Hotel (grand hotel) and take the lift up to the 17th floor. There a public bar / cafe. Take in the views through the huge glass panel windows - all of Arrecife. They charged only 2.50 euros for bottles of chilled Coke with ice n lemon. ...
