renting room-CT
 

Has anybody just shown up without reservations in the CT and easily found a room? (Specifically Vernazza on a weekday in May). Do you have to drag your suitcases up and down hills while finding a place? Are there mobs of room-hawkers at the train station waiting to swoop down on each arriving train? It seems like many of the small pensiones dont have websites or accept advance reservations.

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We showed up in Santa Margherite in October without reservations and a husband/wife came up to us as we got off the train and offered us their extra apartment.(Ironically, the woman was American from New York who had married an Italian hairdresser.) I was a little leery but then my son who was studying in Torino at the time said that we should check it out. It was wonderful-two bedroomws,kitchen and close to everything. They had bought a condo in the next building and had kept this place to rent it out.
My son had gone to Vernazza a few weeks earlier and had gotten a room by a bell tower there for a cheap price-once again the man had been from New York originally and they just walked around till they found a vacancy.Because Vernazza is so much smaller and May is starting to be a higher season, I think that I would be tempted to get the room beforehand as its a very popular place.Vernazza is beautiful but getting overrun with everyone with their Rick Steves books!

Rick himself says that if it isn't July, August, or a weekend or holiday, you can just arrive and easily find a room. I prefer to know ahead of time where I'm staying, but if this doesn't bother you, it sounds like a reasonable thing to do.

ciao Vivi
i live in Vernazza!in May .june and july are a lot tourists in the 5terre.and the best months,
i reccomend rent room now !Some hotel or rent room help your bags !there are some mobs of room -hawkers at the train station waiting to swoop down on each arriving train:-)) but you continue for your idea.!
if you want any question you write to www.roomartina.com
ciao