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Your Move

July 02, 2026

Your Move

A day at Pellicano Hotels, told through the simple pleasure of play

There are holidays you remember for the places you visited. Others, for the things you finally had time to do.

Read another chapter. Order another coffee. Stay in the sea until your fingers wrinkle.

Play.

Somewhere along the way, we seem to have forgotten that games aren't only for children. They slow us down, bring people together and ask us to be present in a way few other things can. There are no notifications to answer, nowhere else to be, no prize more valuable than a conversation that lasts a little longer than expected.

Perhaps that's why they feel so at home at Pellicano Hotels, not as entertainment, but as part of the day.

The morning might begin at Hotel Il Pellicano, where breakfast lingers on the terrace and the shutters are still half-closed against the Tuscan sun. A game of ISSIMO Monopoly appears on the bed or the coffee table, more as an invitation than a competition. Plans for the afternoon are abandoned almost as quickly as they're made. There will be time for all of it later.

After all, nobody ever remembers the holiday where they stuck to the schedule.

Monopoly ISSIMO

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By lunchtime, the scene shifts to La Posta Vecchia. A deck of cards waits beside the pool while lunch quietly stretches into the afternoon. Someone suggests "just one game." It becomes three. Nobody checks the time. The Tyrrhenian Sea is only a few steps away and, for once, there is nowhere more important to be.

This is perhaps the real luxury of a hotel: not simply beautiful surroundings, but permission to move at a different pace.

ISSIMO x Modiano Neapolitan Playing Cards

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As the afternoon slips into evening, the island takes over.

At Mezzatorre, the backgammon board arrives at Bar La Torre alongside an aperitivo. The pieces click softly across the board as the light begins to fade over Ischia. Moves become slower. Conversations longer. Another round appears almost unnoticed.

Winning feels wonderfully beside the point.

ISSIMO Travel Backgammon

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What matters is everything happening around the game: the stories exchanged between turns, the laughter after an unexpected move, the comfortable silence that only arrives when nobody feels the need to fill it.

It is easy to think of these objects as souvenirs or beautiful things to own. In reality, they are something else entirely: invitations to put the phone down, share another drink and challenge someone to "just one more round." The score will eventually be forgotten.

The afternoon probably won't.

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