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Monaco has launched six new walking routes, which is encouraging because Monaco is the sort of place where one assumes walking is mainly done by impeccably dressed people crossing from a Bentley to a yacht.
Rwanda has always had the sort of scenery that makes a person reconsider every holiday previously spent beside a hotel pool reading a novel about people having better holidays. Now The Lux Collective has arrived, opening LUX* Lake Kivu and SALT of Akagera, the first two properties in an ambitious five-resort tourism circuit across the country.
Books to take to the beach, the bush, the balcony, or that one relative’s house you escape into the bathroom to survive.
Slovenia, sitting pretty at number 12 on Abercrombie & Kent’s Top Places to Visit in 2026, is the travel equivalent of that impossibly stylish friend who never has lipstick on her teeth, even at midnight. While Italy is busy crowd-managing gondoliers and Austria is running out of Sound of Music hills to twirl on, Slovenia has been quietly perfecting the art of being fabulous without fuss.
Privacy in Fiji isn’t just about slapping a “Do Not Disturb” sign on your bure door and hoping the housekeeping team respects it. Oh no, this is Fiji. Here, privacy is more of an art form, a delicate brushstroke painted across turquoise lagoons and coconut palms.
I thought I knew what I was walking into with Likuliku Lagoon Resort. You know the drill. There’s turquoise water so glossy it could be a Dulux paint sample, and those famous overwater bungalows that pop up on every “dream honeymoon” Pinterest board. But then, well, then you actually arrive.
We’re barely on the wharf before we are claimed by Dolphin Island. Staff appear like a Broadway chorus, flowers around our necks, and cocktails in our hands. “Welcome home,” says Dawn, the manager.
There are few things more humbling than standing three feet from a 200-kilo silverback gorilla, who could tear your limbs off but instead chooses to yawn, scratch his belly, and give you a look that says, Honestly, Nicole, I’ve seen better rain ponchos.
Freshly fluffed, fabulously polished, and now officially re-opened, Likuliku Lagoon Resort has emerged from its three-month beauty sleep and is looking absolutely radiant. Not that it was ever shabby, mind you, it’s always been one of Fiji’s most iconic adult-only escapes, but thanks to a cool FJD$10 million facelift (that’s USD$4.2M, AUD$7M or 140,000 coconuts in island currency), this tropical gem is now shimmering at a whole new level of sustainable, spoiling loveliness.
There’s something about luxury travel that makes otherwise rational people, people who would normally think twice about paying for an extra checked bag, suddenly behave like aristocrats in a pre-revolution Versailles spending spree. One minute, you’re admiring an elegant, handcrafted thing (because at this stage, you don’t even know what it is, just that it’s expensive), and the next, you’re handing over your credit card and nodding along as a perfectly groomed sales assistant assures you that shipping a 200kg limestone Buddha to Australia is absolutely no trouble at all.
South Africa offers visitors an enchanting combination of untamed landscapes and modern cities.
Enter the era of the luxury staycation, where the goal is to do absolutely nothing except lounge by your pool but with all the glamour of a five-star resort. And, thanks to a tiny aquatic miracle called the iSkim Ultra, you won’t even have to skim the pool yourself. Yes, darling, we are outsourcing everything.
