With mesmerising views, luxurious surroundings and tantalising culinary experiences, why not try a new way to experience Morocco – by sea, at the luxury Mazagan Beach & Golf Resort?

With its Roman mosaics, grand stately homes and baroque city gates, this small Maltese city preserves traces of its ancient history

This infamously glittery stretch of the southern Spanish coast is not just about extravagant luxury. The lesser-known Costa del Sol is full of unexpected and memorable experiences guaranteed to appeal to the more intrepid wine and food lover

THE CARIBBEAN ISLAND OF PUERTO RICO IS A PLACE OF BOUNTY — WITH SEAS THAT GLOW IN THE DARK, BEACHES THAT HIDE PIRATE LOOT AND SACRED MOUNTAINS THAT BURST WITH FLORA

Even by the standards of an emirate that shows all the constructional restraint of a toddler with a trunk of Lego, Dubai is in turbocharge mode. Eminent hotel groups are flooding in as superhotels spring up on man-made islands. Yet for all Dubai’s veneration of the new, decades of innovation have left a legacy of eye-catching and, in some cases, surprisingly affordable sanctuaries in which to bed down, whether you’re based in Burj Khalifa-dominated Downtown, the buzzing Marina or amid the sugary sands of Jumeirah Beach and the Palm. Throughout it all, the hospitality ecosystem seems to hum with a customer-is-king efficiency.

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