Sometimes you don’t feel like staying in a hotel. All that dressing up. Checking in — and being checked out by other guests.
Having to change for dinner. What you really want is a gorgeous home, with all the perks of a hotel but none of the hindrances. Here we pick five of the finest seaside villas to check into with a bunch of friends or (very lucky) family, from an Ibizan farmhouse and a castle on a private island off Cannes to a Cornish cliff retreat.
Red Cove, Cornwall Mawgan Porth is a picturebook seaside village five miles north of Newquay. Home to an award-winning cove replete with magical caves and moss-covered boulders, it’s enveloped in beauty from every angle, from its highest clifftop down to the arcing Atlantic waves which meet the golden (dog-friendly) beach..
