Hotel Windsor

Hotel Windsor

Piazza XXV Aprile lies at the front door, and beyond it the beach chairs, striped parasols and inflatable doughnuts of Bagni Windsor, the hotel's own private stretch of shore in Laigueglia, on Liguria's western Riviera. Hotel Windsor reopened in 2022 after a restoration that kept the building's period bones and Riviera colour while resetting the twenty-five rooms into seven distinct types, from village-facing doubles that look straight onto the piazzetta's daily chatter to the top-floor Junior Suite, where a double balcony spans the whole gulf from Alassio to Gallinara and Capo Mele, and the desk was designed by Ico Parisi. Downstairs, SAVŌ restaurant sets every table, inside and on the terrace, to face the sea, building its seasonal menu around small Ligurian producers, with a wine list curated to match; the adjoining bar runs from morning coffee to late cocktails. This suits a traveller who wants a walkable, human-scaled base with a real village on one side and the water on the other, who reads a fitness room and a concierge desk as sufficient rather than sparse. It suits less well anyone who wants a large resort's spread of facilities under one roof, since this is a compact, twenty-five-room house where a fitness room, a conference hall and the restaurant make up the indoor recreation, and parking is offsite and charged separately. What Windsor has that its Riviera neighbours mostly do not is rooms that face directly into the ordinary life of the piazza rather than away from it, so the view is never staged. Ask at booking about gala dinner surcharges, which some Italian hotels apply without much notice. Twenty-five rooms sit above Laigueglia's piazza, steps from Windsor's own private beach, with a top-floor suite whose desk was designed by Ico Parisi. It suits those who want village life at the window rather than a resort's spread of facilities.