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The Best Part of Waking Up

August 27, 2026

The Best Part of Waking Up

At Pellicano Hotels, breakfast isn't simply the first meal of the day. It's where holidays properly begin.

There are two kinds of breakfasts. The one you squeeze in before work, coffee in one hand and your phone in the other. And then there’s breakfast on holiday: the one that starts without a set time and ends whenever you feel like it, where a second cappuccino feels entirely reasonable and the only urgent plan is not to have one.

At Pellicano Hotels, mornings definitely belong to the second kind.

At Hotel Il Pellicano, it’s worth waking up early at least once.

The first light falls over Argentario, the sea is already there below, and bougainvillea frames terraces that seem made for forgetting what time it is. For a few minutes, before the hotel fully wakes up, there’s only the sound of the water and that particular feeling the Pellicano does so well: knowing you don’t need to be anywhere else.

Then the coffee arrives.

Freshly brewed coffee, a selection of teas, organic eggs prepared just as you like them, seasonal fruit and whatever has just come out of the oven that morning.

Someone on the team already knows how you take your coffee. Someone else has an idea about where you should go for a swim later. It’s the kind of attention that doesn’t need announcing at the Pellicano. It simply happens. Perhaps this is the morning version of sprezzatura: everything feels effortless precisely because someone behind the scenes knows exactly how to make it feel that way.

And the second cappuccino? Here, it’s almost inevitable.

At La Posta Vecchia, mornings have a different rhythm.

Just forty minutes from Rome, you wake up in what still feels like a grand Italian home overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea. Outside, gardens and sea. Inside, tapestries, antiques, traces of ancient Rome and centuries of stories that coexist quietly with the present.

It’s difficult to be in a hurry in a place like this.

La Posta Vecchia

Breakfast brings freshly brewed coffee and a selection of teas to the table. Then there are eggs Benedict, buckwheat crêpes with smoked salmon, and pancakes with vanilla cream and berries.

Here, the luxury of the morning feels almost domestic: choosing your table, recognising the person who welcomed you the day before, asking what’s worth seeing nearby and allowing yourself to be persuaded to put off Rome for a few more hours.

Because when you’re having breakfast in a villa that was a home before it became a hotel, feeling at home comes rather naturally.

At Mezzatorre, meanwhile, you wake up on an island.

The tower looks out over its private bay, the park tumbles down towards the sea and the air carries pine trees, Mediterranean scrub and that unmistakable southern light that somehow makes the blue look even bluer. Here, Ischia isn’t simply the backdrop to breakfast. It comes through the windows, crosses the garden and makes its way right to the table.

And onto the plate.

Aromatic coffee, freshly squeezed citrus juices, local organic produce and, naturally, the cornetto ischitano: part flaky pastry, part brioche, filled with custard and sour cherries.

The morning might continue in the thermal waters, along a green trail, with a tennis match or a walk down to the bay.

But not necessarily straight away.

Someone on the team might suggest a corner of the island you hadn’t considered. Or simply bring you another coffee, which sometimes is exactly the right advice.

At Mezzatorre, the island sets the pace. And in the morning, it sets it very slowly.

Mezzatorre Hotel & Thermal Spa

Three hotels. Three completely different mornings.

At Il Pellicano, the effortless spirit of Argentario and the sea below the terrace. At La Posta Vecchia, the feeling of waking up in a grand Italian home filled with stories. At Mezzatorre, an island that finds its way into your day before you’ve even left the breakfast table.

But some things never change.

There are the faces that become familiar morning after morning. The person who remembers how you take your coffee. The one who picks up a conversation exactly where you left it. The one who always has a suggestion you didn’t ask for but will probably end up following.

And on the table, there’s The Daily: part newspaper, part insider’s guide, filled with ideas for the day ahead, a treatment to try, a dish not to miss and a cocktail to remember for later.

The rest can wait.

Maybe you’ve already done yoga. Maybe you’re heading to The BenISSIMO Club afterwards. Perhaps there’s a tennis match, a walk, a boat ride or a swim on the agenda.

Or perhaps nothing at all.
Lunch will have its plans. Dinner, perhaps, a reservation.
Breakfast asks almost nothing of you.
And while each of our three hotels wakes up in its own way, they all share the same pleasure: that delicious stretch of time when the whole day is still ahead of you, the sea is within earshot and nobody is asking you to hurry.
Order another cappuccino. Finish The Daily. Ask the team what they’d do today.
Or simply stay right where you are.
Holiday mornings are made for slow starts.

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