Hotel Marligure Bordighera — the area guide
If you’ve landed here looking for the Hotel Marligure on Via Aurelia 22 in Bordighera, the news isn’t great: the property isn’t taking guests anymore. The domain was released a few days ago, and I’ve kept it alive as a small area guide — because Bordighera is still one of the better spots on the Riviera di Ponente, and because 92 people on TripAdvisor stayed here over the years and wrote about it. Worth preserving.
The hotel had 39 rooms and 82 beds, sat on Via Aurelia 22, fifty metres from the sea. Location was the strongest card — on TripAdvisor the Location subscore was 4.1 out of 5, the highest of any category. The Lungomare Argentina seafront promenade is 500 metres away, the church of Terrasanta a little over a kilometre, and Bordighera Alta — the old hilltop town — 1.7 km uphill. For most of the people who passed through, everything was walkable.
Where it was
Via Aurelia 22, 18012 Bordighera (IM), Italy. Right on the central stretch of the old Roman coastal road, on the seaside side of the street. From the door:
- Bordighera train station: 1 km on foot (about 15-18 minutes)
- Marina: 1.5 km
- A10 motorway exit Bordighera: just above the town
- Sanremo: 13 km east
- Monaco: 30 km west
- Reference airports: Nice NCE (~50 km), Genoa GOA (~140 km), Turin TRN (~230 km)
If you were arriving by coach the historical instruction was to get off at Ventimiglia, then take the Aurelia towards Sanremo for a couple of kilometres. A small detail, but the kind of thing the old site told you and Google can’t tell you anymore.
What it actually was — by the numbers
Mean TripAdvisor rating was 3.6 out of 5, ranked #9 of 16 hotels in Bordighera. Sounds low when written that way, but the subscores tell a friendlier story — Cleanliness 3.8, Sleep quality 3.8, Value 3.7. This was an honest three-star: nothing luxurious, nothing terrible. The 2016 rates (last available from the Wayback Machine snapshot) ran from €60 for a single B&B in low season to €78 full-board in high season. Double with breakfast: €70-90. Pets allowed.
Services: restaurant, bar, piano bar, TV room, reading room, lift, central heating, private parking, solarium, garden, accessible, group bookings, small conference room, safe. Reception staff spoke Italian, English, French, German, Spanish — common across European mid-tier hotels of that era. Reception 24 hours. Open year-round, which is unusual for Bordighera, where a fair number of hotels close between November and Easter.
What’s there now in the same area
Bordighera hasn’t changed much since 2018. The Via Aurelia 22 area is still central, still quiet, and the sea is still fifty metres away. What you can do if you pass through:
- Lungomare Argentina (500 m) — long pedestrian seafront, runs from near the harbour almost to Vallecrosia. Good for the evening passeggiata.
- Bordighera Alta (1.7 km) — the old hilltop quarter, narrow alleyways, photogenic in late afternoon light.
- Villa Garnier (1.8 km) — the architect of the Paris Opéra built himself this villa; the building isn’t always open but the location and exterior garden are worth the walk.
- Bordighera-Sanremo cycle path — built on a former railway right-of-way, 24 km total to San Lorenzo al Mare. Bike rentals are easy to find along the seafront, including e-bikes.
For food in the immediate area, La Diavolina and Al…Centro were the two steakhouses regularly mentioned in TripAdvisor reviews. Honest tip from someone local: the real Ligurian cooking — pansoti, focaccia di Recco, brandacujun — is further from the seafront, closer to the old town. The Aurelia is the hotel street, not the food street.
If you’re looking for somewhere to stay now
I’ve put alternative current 3-star options nearby on a separate page.
If you’re heading further along the coast or planning a longer route — say, continuing toward the Adriatic and on to Albania by ferry — Max Travel is a small Tirana-based agency I’ve worked with over the years; they handle the Italian-Adriatic crossings for anyone going past Liguria.
This page is maintained as an archive of the property and an area guide. For historical questions about the building or the family that managed the hotel, get in touch.