Bagno Venere - PISA

Excellent dishes, delicious seafood, first dishes cooked very well as spaghetti with the slag or fish sauce dishes. sweets also deserve a goto. I recommend it for pizza too.

Excellent marine dishes, delicious desserts, excellent value for money, to try because the place is very hospitable and excellent cuisine. the staff is very attentive to the different needs, very kind . I will definitely return to dinner à la carte, but also at lunch the buffet is rich and goose, I tried after a bath and I was impressed positively. from the demanding palates.

Excellent cuisine with Sardinian specialties... yuri and his wife are exquisite... good price quality ratio.. very polite

We spent few hours in Tirrenia beach on our way from a car trip from Florence to Pisa. It took us additional 30m from Pisa to the free parkplace relatively close to the sea. We have rented an umbrella and a pair of beach chairs. Price was 13eur or so. Beach and water were clean, anyway few of us reported some sensations similar to being touched by tiny jellyfish.

Visited here a few times at the end of August with the kids initially just to get access to the beach. Our rep advised us to go to Tirrenia as it was better value than Livorno which, whilst apparently a bit more upmarket, came at a premium. Both are about 15 minutes drive from Pisa. I was quite surprised at the apparently lack of public access to the beach. Instead the road along the coast from the port is lined with an array of resorts, some of which have large hotels and water slides. The bagno or ‘bath’ itself is quite a simple affair with a cafe serving coffee, pastries, ice cream, slushes etc. There is also a restaurant which has a pizza oven although I didn’t see the latter in action so I assume it’s either an evening thing or not in use. In any matter, we had a good pizza just across the road. We also took a packed lunch on the other days and no one seemed bothered by this. Beach wise, you can either rent a parasol and chairs or get a lockable cabin to change in and leave your stuff and includes a parasol and chairs. I’d recommend the latter at a cost of under €30, again slightly more at weekends. It wasn’t entirely clear if you could just use the beach and not pay anything. Regardless, I’d consider this a bit cheap given that the upkeep of the beach area and lifeguards must come from somewhere. There are also showers on the beach and then in the paved seating area behind the cabins to wash off the sand. It was disappointing that we weren’t allowed to rent a parasol near the beach but we were told these were reserved for guests, even though they remained unoccupied for he entire time we were there. This does mean that you won’t be able to watch the kids in the water from under the shade of the umbrella. Speaking of the kids, mine also spent a decent amount of time on the slides and swings they provide and became addicted to the sour slushies from the cafe. The beach was a fairly standard Mediterranean affair. Most of the space is taken up by the clubs’ parasols and chairs so the actual beach area is quite small. The water itself was clean and warm. Most days the sea was calm but it did rough up a bit on one day when the wind got up. The car park didn’t seem that busy when we went. It’s €2 on a weekday and €3 at the weekends. You pay separately to the actual club and they will stick a ticket under your wiper. One of the benefits of this particular club is that it’s quite close to the centre of Tirrenia so if you fancy going into town for something to eat you can easily leave the car. Then again, parking along the coast road or anywhere did not appear to be a massive issue in late August. The staff don’t speak much English and were extremely amused when I called a granita a ‘gratina’. This won’t stop you from renting chairs etc. as they have a little picture card which clearly sets out what everything costs. We didn’t see another English tourist while we were there and the suggestion was that this place tended to be frequented more by Italians and Germans. I can’t say that impacted on what were a few, very enjoyable trips to the beach.