Destination Guides

Egypt’s mainland Red Sea coast is the cheapest place on Earth to fall in love with a coral reef — a strip of desert where 28°C summer water, a 365-day…

Kerala is the part of India that converts the sceptics — the travellers who found the north too loud, too fast, too much, and assumed all of India ran at…

Costa Rica packs cloud forests, an active-looking volcano, two completely different coastlines and more biodiversity than the entire United States into a…

The Dalmatian Coast is the bit of the Mediterranean everyone else found out about too — a 350-kilometre run of Roman stone towns, pine-cloaked islands…

Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast is the bargain that splits the room: on one stretch you get Sunny Beach and Golden Sands — vast, cheap, neon mega-resorts…

The Riviera Maya is really five or six completely different holidays sharing one airport, and the single most common mistake is booking the wrong one.…

Punta Cana isn’t a city — it’s a 50-kilometre coastline of all-inclusive resorts at the eastern edge of the Dominican Republic, sold to you by the week…

The Turkish Riviera is two holidays sold under one name. There’s the eastern stretch — Belek, Side, Alanya, Lara — a wall of 5-star all-inclusive resorts…

Mauritius is two islands wearing the same name: the glossy one in the resort brochures, all infinity pools and butler service, and the real one a…

The Gambia is a 48-km-wide ribbon of country that exists almost entirely because of one river, and for most visitors it shrinks to a six-kilometre run of…

Portugal’s sun-baked southern coast is 150 kilometres of ochre cliffs, hidden coves and some of the cheapest flights in Europe — but “the Algarve” is…