We really enjoyed our stay at casa de la pigna. Luca is a great host who met us in a convenient place to then take us to the house as we arrived quite late at night. That really makes a difference as it takes away the stress of finding a new place. He also left us some food for breakfast which was very helpful. The house is lovely, it's old fashioned but charming and the gardens/view of the sea are really special. Balestrate is quite a nice town, we loved eating in the square, it's very typical of the area and not particularly touristy so a good place to stay if you want something quite low key. The best bit about our stay was visiting some of the beaches close by near Scopello village. Casa de la Pigna is a lovely place we would go back. You definitely need a car even though technically you could walk to Balestrate I don't think you would want to as the road doesn't have pavements.