My partner and I had a lovely relaxing break, the location and the room were perfect. Chiara and her team are delightful and I would have happily stayed longer than our week.

Was our first but certainly not our last visit to Pive Degli Artitisti. The room, house, swimmingpool where fantastic. But we are going to miss the most are the breakfast and the warm welcome we had from the staff they where outstanding!

Everything

The meal was 7

The location is on a side road a few miles from Pietrasanta city center. You can walk to a nearby church, where a steep hiking trail goes up a mountain past hillside olive groves and small houses. Pietrasanta is a beautiful town with many restaurants, historic sites and upscale shops, plus the beaches are only a few miles farther. The B&B is a converted house and the conversion was done tastefully; believe there are three guest rooms. Our room was large and beautiful, with a window overlooking the pool. The bathroom was spacious as well. The pool and back yard are small but very nice, with plantings and a wall forming the border. In one direction, you can see a small town on a mountaintop in the distance. I swam multiple times during our three-night stay. The breakfast hostess was very nice, and they kindly let me keep a few items in the refrigerator during our visit. Breakfast was served outside in a lovely sitting area during our stay (late October). It's a very informal place, which I like.

The breakfast was below average for such a nice establishment, and on the last day (a Monday) there was no yogurt, bread, eggs, etc. (The town with stores is only two or three miles away so this could be rectified with a little effort). Due to its quaintness you can hear noise at times from other quests, visitors and whoever else lives in the house (the owner and others, perhaps). No maps or printed information were available of the area, which would have been helpful to explore the surroundings in a more efficient manner. You are on your own for parking (no on-site parking). It's a narrow but not busy dead-end road so you should be able to find a spot, perhaps around the corner in a small field (which is where we parked). In general, the staff could be more communicative.

Nice location. The pool was nice, the bedroom fantastic. From here we visited Pisa, Lucca and Pietrasanta. Also the trip to Cinque Terre was nice, although the best way to travel to the 5 villages is with the train starting from La Spezia. Owner Chiara bakes delicious cakes!

Chiara, the owner, smokes al lot. We are non smokers, and did not like the smell in the living room and the porch. It is almost impossible to use internet, no reach from the provider, wifi did not work. In the week we were there most quests wanted to start breakfast a 8.00 am. The buffet was almost complete, but Chiara arrived every day at 8.20 with the normal bread.

Pieve is a beautiful villa in a quiet location, with clean, tasteful rooms, lovely views of the hills, king size bed, generous breakfast, cute pool and gardens, very friendly staff (Giulia was so amazing). it would have been idyllic except….

on the second night there for her friends (not staying at the villa), with loud music, shouting, singing, people jumping in the pool… it was insane. Felt like i was back in Hard Rock ibiza than a quiet tuscan b&b! guests were not warned or invited. it was so loud it felt like they were partying in our room! my partner went down at midnight to say enough was enough. No apology the next day to us or anyone else. (the other couples and families were all very upset). Chiara was also out on the terrace every afternoon smoking (despite seeing i was pregnant). i found the enjoy the terrace at all and we had to stay in our room or go into town we felt like we were encroaching in her house, rather than paying guests. We feel absolutely cheated out of £600. When we asked her about it. she said she could do what she wanted as it was her house. we have recordings of the noise and have contacted booking.com.

Everything is like on the pictures. Really sweet and clean room. Nice, but small bathroom. AC was working perfectly. Pool is small, but big enough and has clean, cristal clear water. Most of the time, we had it completely to our selves. Breakfast was good for Italian standards. Personal is really friendly.

We got served scrambled eggs with bacon only on the first day. After that eggs were either completely out or only boiled eggs were available. Shower curtain was moldy at the bottom. Doors are not soundproof at all, so you can hear everything what is going on downstairs and vice versa.

love this spot

beautiful