Pelican Hill Opens Online Store, As Holiday Season Approaches

Pelican Hill® the nation’s leading luxury Resort located along the coast of Newport Beach, today announced the opening of its new online store, ShopPelicanHill.com. Just as the holiday shopping season arrives, the Resort’s newest retail outlet offers guests the opportunity to bring a little of the Pelican Hill experience home.

“Our online store invites guests to enjoy at home many of the tangible sensory items that they touch, smell, see and experience at Pelican Hill,” said Giuseppe Lama, Managing Director of Pelican Hill. “Popular items, including logo golf apparel, private label spa products, hand-painted ceramic mementos and Italian linens, are now just a few clicks away atShopPelicanHill.com.”

As an extension of the Resort’s four on-site retail boutiques, the new online store enables guests to shop Pelican Hill’s exclusive product collection anywhere, anytime. Featured items include home accessories such as signature Italian ceramics, bath and body products such as Pelican Hill Bath Caviar, and logo apparel such as luxe spa robes and golf polo shirts. Shoppers may also purchase Pelican Hill’s custom-designed bed set, complete with the same plush Euro pillow-top mattress found in the Resort’s Bungalow guest rooms and Villas.

About Pelican Hill®
Set on 504 acres by the Pacific Ocean in Newport Beach, Pelican Hill features: 128 two-, three- and four-bedroom villas with magnificent coastal views and an unparalleled array of appointments, immersing guests in the absolute finest of everything; 204 luxuriously appointed bungalow guest rooms and suites with private terraces; a rejuvenating Five-Star spa with a menu of the world’s most celebrated therapies; world-class restaurants, including Andrea serving authentic Northern Italian cuisine; an iconic “Coliseum Pool,” one of the largest circular pools anywhere with tiered decks and luxurious cabanas; and Pelican Hill Golf Club with 36 dramatic holes by Tom Fazio, nearly all with ocean panoramas. A Five-Diamond destination, Pelican Hill has earned acclaim as "an exceptional resort of great individuality and distinction" according to Andrew Harper’s Hideaway Report, as Condé Nast Traveler’s #1 U.S. Resort and #1 California Golf Resort (2011 Readers’ Choice Awards), in Travel + Leisure’s "Top 100" World's Best Hotels (2011 Readers’ Poll), and with two courses ranked among Golf Digest's America's 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses (2011).

The Irvine Company Resort Properties owns and manages the finest resort and leisure destinations in Newport Coast and the City of Irvine. In addition to Pelican Hill, the portfolio includes the Island Hotel Newport Beach, the city’s landmark property and only AAA Five Diamond hotel; Hyatt Regency Irvine, the city’s only Four Diamond hotel; Oak Creek Golf Club in Irvine, featuring a challenging, Tom Fazio-designed public golf course; and several of the finest marinas in Newport Harbor and Northern California.

About the Irvine Company
The Irvine Company is an internationally renowned real estate development company known for its award-winning master-planned communities, its vast portfolio of high-quality investment properties and its leadership in conservation and natural resource management. The growing real estate portfolio encompasses office, apartment, retail and resort holdings located throughout California’s premier markets, including assets in San Diego, Orange and Los Angeles Counties, and holdings in Northern California. As a steward of some of America’s most beautiful and scientifically important open space and parklands, the company has donated more than half of the historic 93,000-acre Irvine Ranch in Orange County — 50,000 acres — to permanently preserve these lands. The U.S. Department of Interior and the State of California have designated these parklands as “Natural Landmarks,” one of the most prestigious land preservation designations. The privately held, diversified company traces its roots to the 1860s with the formation of The Irvine Ranch® from Mexican and Spanish land grants.