We went for a 10 day holiday in Alassio and booked ourselves into the Diana grand.
The hotel feels nice when you walk in but the room we were given was small, dark and unwelcoming. The beds were like boards and the bathroom was very small and not well equipped. Water ran through the the toilet cystern all night and the toilet would not flush. When we told them about this, the staff offered to move us to another room but said that we could have the other room for 1 night only and would then have to move back to the first room. There was no offer to do the move for us - we were just handed the keys of the second room
The room was clean but the lampshades were so old that we thought they were covered in cobwebs and asked the cleaner to clean them. But she demonstrated that in fact they had gone like that with age and were perfectly clean. The only good thing about the room was the sea view.
There is a lovely terrace outside where you can sit and look out to sea.
The breakfast was OK.
The room was very expensive and poor value.
After one night we booked out and found a far nicer hotel. No-one asked us why we were leaving.
- Diana Grand Alassio
