Destinations designed with your wellbeing in mind

COUNTRY LIFE writers reveal the hotels that stood out to them in 2025

Its famous Medina is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and there is a fascinating labyrinth of souks to explore as well as luxurious riads to stay at, so we think Marrakech should be right up there on you

There are three big advantages to a twin-centre holiday. The first is that instead of one long, tiring flight, you get a midway break. Then there’s the fact that when you come to the end of your ‘firs

coast editor-in-chief Alex Fisher spends a few days at the Scarlet hotel, an adults-only eco-retreat perched above Mawgan Porth Beach on the north Cornish coast

Shoals of tropical fish swim past. From time to time, a blacktip reef shark comes into view, wriggling its tail at me. You might be thinking I’m at an aquarium or out snorkelling. But no, I’m having a