We had a wonderful time in Portoverde. It's a lovely quiet marina, close to the busy town of Cattolica. There are around a dozen cafes, restaurants, a mini supermarket, newsagent, gift shops in Portoverde itself, which - for us aiming for a relaxing holiday - was enough to chose from. We also took our 10 and 8 year old to the go karting and the mini kids evening play park in the town. We went to the beach and the sea is very safe - there are some blocks in the sea, presumably to protect against the quiet marina traffic - which work perfectly to keep the waves calm, the water depth is around 150cm, which meant it felt safe to let our kids play on their inflatables, without worrying about them going out to sea or out of their depth. We took day trips to Rimini, and spent a couple of nights in Bologna. Portoverde was very Italian, in as much as most other holiday makers were Italian, who perhaps owned apartments - with no other English speakers there at all in Augus. Made it all seem more holiday like for us. This was our first beach holiday with our kids, and we'd happily return. It was reasonably inexpensive, and more a sitting out at a restaurant/café of an evening kind of a place (although we did notice two 'gentleman's' clubs which seemed out of keeping with the place, and didn't cause any bother to us). Remember to budget for using private beaches - 2 sunloungers and parasol around 75 euros a week (daily rates available).