Savi Coliving

18/10/2026

✨✨✨ WE WON!!! ✨✨✨

Best Destination Coliving 2026. That's us!!

Thank you to everyone who's lived at Savi, cooked a Monday brunch, walked the dogs or stayed up late on the terrace. This one belongs to the house.

Mega thanks to everyone at Coliving Conference and Coliving Awards for everything you did! It was super well organised and I can't wait for next year, and thanks to the one and only Devinn Parak for helping represent Villa Savi | Coliving in Valencia ⛰️
I couldn't have done it without you!

I also spoke on the Adaptive Reuse panel with Bart Sasim, Justin Shee and Joe Morris. I was so so nervous 😅🙈

And my dear Marina Simó Mascarell this would never have happened without you!

If you've stayed with us, what's the moment you'd have put on the shortlist?

08/10/2026

Bill Hicks had this bit about a guy on acid:

"𝘛𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘢 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩, 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴. 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳."

I run a sober coliving house in the Spanish mountains. No acid. No w**e. Not even a b**r at dinner.

And people have that realisation here anyway. Most weeks, if I'm honest.
No substance involved. Just a long table, a slow dinner, and three days with the phone face down.

You don't need acid to feel like we're all one consciousness. You need a room where nobody's performing and nobody's holding a drink. The acid was just a longer way to the same table.

When I opened a place with no bar, people said I was mad. Take the booze out and a room goes quiet, right? Opposite happened. People talk more. By day three they know each other better than colleagues of ten years.

Here's Tom with the weather. It's sunny. It's always sunny. We're in Valencia.

I wrote the whole thing down, full story in the comments.

𝗦𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁. 𝗟𝗲𝘁'𝘀 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 "𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀."

Then tell me in the comments: the most profound thing you ever worked out stone cold sober.

Most people aren't lonely because they're alone. They're lonely in rooms full of people, because everyone's performing. Take the performance away, and the loneliness goes with it.

03/10/2026

One room left in 2026
Next year filling fast.

Nominated best destination coliving 2026

06/09/2026

The best days here were never on the schedule.

Sunday breakfast on a blanket by the pool because somebody suggested it at ten. Coffee at the round table that runs longer than anyone planned. A walk you mention and three people join. Two men fishing in the pool with the pool net, and nobody stopping them.

And on the days you want none of it, nobody minds. You don't have to be social, or productive, or on.

The villa is lovely. It has never been the reason anyone remembers the stay.

What's the bit you remember from where you last stayed?

05/09/2026

I need 45 people to do something mildly annoying for me.

Savi is a finalist at the Coliving Awards. Destination Coliving category. Us, an Italian social enterprise, and Outsite, who have about 50 locations and a marketing department.

We have a villa, some chickens and a WhatsApp group.

Right now the vote looks like this: 🇮🇹 Ca'Co 49% 🏠 Savi 38% 🌍 Outsite 13%

There are 408 votes in. The gap is roughly 45 people. I know at least 45 people. I've cooked for most of you.

Here's the annoying bit. The vote is on LinkedIn. Yes, LinkedIn. The website where people announce they're "humbled" to have been promoted. You'll need to log in. It takes 12 seconds and you can log straight back out and pretend it never happened.

👉 https://lnkd.in/p/e_EkiSQq Tap "Savi Coliving", done.

Closes Wednesday 9th. Five days.

If we win, there'll be a party at the villa. If we lose to a company with 50 locations, there'll also be a party at the villa, but I'll be quieter at it.

Share it if you've ever eaten at the long table, walked one of the dogs, or just enjoyed watching me try to run a business where nobody drinks.

Gracias 🙏

02/09/2026

We might be the least demanding coliving in Europe.

No one is expected at dinner.

No one has to join the Sunday hike.

No one has to come to the pool party or the barbecue.

No one has to do yoga, or lie down for a sound bath.

No one has to turn up to the rooftop alcohol-free cocktail party.

And no one has to take one of the last two rooms in October.

Here's the odd part: almost everyone comes to almost everything.

Turns out when you take the pressure off, people stop performing community and just have some. You show up to dinner because you want to see people, not because there's a rota with your name on it. You skip the hike because your knee hurts, and nobody says a word about it.

Sober coliving, 25 minutes from Valencia. Two rooms left in October.

Nobody's making you. Just mentioning it.

31/08/2026

Hey everyone, me again....

We need 50 more votes to actually win this thing, not just be shortlisted, and I know that's a big ask when everyone's inbox is already full of stuff like this. But it would mean a lot.

Savi's been a year of turning an empty house into somewhere people actually want to be, and getting this far already feels like a small miracle. Winning would help more than you'd think, this kind of thing genuinely moves the needle for something small and independent like this.

So if you've got ten seconds and a LinkedIn login, I'd be properly grateful. No sign up, no email, just a click. Easiest with the app or even easier with a laptop ...

https://lnkd.in/p/e_EkiSQq

I'll remember this one. Thank you.

Steve

29/08/2026

I opened a sober coliving in the Spanish mountains.

Everyone told me it would fail.

"Nobody will pay to not drink, Steve." "Digital nomads want beach clubs, not silence." "A monastery with WiFi? Good luck."

Two years later, the long table in our courtyard is full most nights. Founders, writers, developers, people rebuilding after burnout, nobody holding a drink, everybody holding a conversation.

Turns out the thing everyone said was the flaw, no alcohol, was the entire point. Take drinking out of the room and something strange happens: people actually talk. By day three, guests know each other better than colleagues they've worked with for years.

I finally wrote the whole origin story down. The near-bankruptcy bits too.

If it resonates, I'd love to hear the thing you built that everyone said would fail.



https://savicoliving.com/story Read it here!

Twenty years in hospitality, one unreasonable bet, and a house that's been nearly full since the day it opened.