Stayed for two nights in September. Great hotel, service was perfect. The rooms are located in the midst of the hill, we had a very quiet room on top of one building, giving free views of the mediteranean. The restaurant is spectacular - given my shellfish allergy, they did everything to provide still a top expereince and they succeeded. A place to definitely come back!

Beautiful resort located on a cliff overlooking the sea. We spent two wonderful days relaxing by the pool, enjoying the excellent, though expensive food. Located approx. 1 1/2 hrs. northwest of Rome, it is the perfect place to rest between Rome and Florence. The spa was excellent. Wonderful staff. Very special place.

this is a very special place, located on a cliff, no kids and just frankly amazing food and service. would highly recommend to anyone who wants to go somewhere very special for a few days or more. Almost the best lunch ever.

Driving the Tuscan coast we pass the Parco Ucellina, a vast coastal park with miles of sand duney beaches, backed by deep umbrella pine forests providing cool shade from the intense summer sun. But it is the first week in October and summer is still here. As we cross the isthmus to the mountainous Argentario where like Napoleon, we could take a ferry to the island of Elba. Instead we head for Porto Ercole, a very crowded oval yacht harbor with floating marina ahchorages protected by a breakwater, and a huge Spanish fort which looms on a promontory above the town. A little further on we drive over a ridge and along a high road with a very distracting panoramic view of the deep blue Tyrhennian Sea. Sometimes getting there is half the adventure.
Soon Il Pellicano appears tumbling down a rocky cliff to the sparling water's edge, all cascading terraces dripping with bougainvilla, rosemary, lavendar and plumbago. The airy sun-filled rooms and baths are elegant and comfortable, decorated in subtle shades of whites and tans, with intermittent splashes of tropical colors. Reminiscent of the sophisticated resort hotels of the Costa Smeralda (Sardinia), inventive fresh fish dinners on the terrace with its many bird cages, has a dreamlike quality at the end of the day. The details are well thought out, remote without isolation, a speed boat will take you to a strand-side dinner of pasta with a vibrant lemon garlic sauce is remarkable in its simplicity.
While there we drove up into the hills dotted with flocks of sheep to visit the Etruscan villages of Saturnia, Sovana, Sorano and intriguing Pittigliano which perches on a bluff like a 'drip castle' in the sky.
Everyone should be so lucky to while away a few days in the pampered luxury of Il Pellicano.