Affording an exclusive luxury resort.

You may have noticed that luxury resorts available on short cheaper flights, are quite often the most expensive. While long haul destinations offer much cheaper - and often, more luxurious holiday resorts. While four weeks in a 5* luxury resort in say Portugal may break the bank, the same, or better in somewhere like Thailand, is quite affordable. Its just down to the flight cost. And, there are often bargains to be had there, if you have a little patience.

So if your looking for a luxurious break away, by the beach in a five star resort, we have researched and reviewed the best of the best across the world, in equally luxurious destinations. Come browse our worlds most luxurious beach resorts and be amazed - and slightly envious.
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Why you should experience a Luxury Resort.
Luxury beach resorts have mastered the art of turning that particular kind of rebellion into an art form. You arrive frazzled, probably still checking work emails on the airport WiFi, and within about six hours you're barefoot, slightly sun-dazed, and genuinely wondering why you ever thought sorting through countless emails was important.
The transformation happens fast. One minute you're debating with a taxi driver about the fare and next, someone is handing you a cold drink with a name you can't pronounce and asking if you'd like your sun lounger positioned exactly for optimal afternoon shade. The answer is always yes, obviously.
What makes these places worth the eye-watering price tag isn't just the rooms or the infinity pool that appears to merge with the ocean. It's the complete removal of friction from daily life. Your coffee appears before you remember wanting it. The water is always the perfect temperature. Someone has already thought about where you might want to eat dinner, and they've reserved the table with the best view. It's not pampering so much as it is a temporary suspension of reality's rougher edges.

The Maldives sits at the top of most people's mental lists, and with good reason. Those overwater bungalows with glass floors looking down at reef sharks have become almost cliché, but clichés exist for a reason. The water genuinely is that blue. The sunset genuinely does look like someone spilled a cocktail across the sky.
French Polynesia offers something similar but with a slightly wilder, less manicured edge—Bora Bora's Mount Otemanu looming over the lagoon like a volcanic bouncer keeping watch.
The Caribbean has its heavy hitters too. Anguilla keeps a lower profile than some neighbours, which is precisely why people who know, go. The sand on Shoal Bay feels like someone sifted flour onto the shoreline.
Then there's the Amalfi Coast, which isn't technically a beach destination in the traditional sense, but try telling that to anyone sipping limoncello at a clifftop hotel in Positano while the Mediterranean glitters below. The beaches might be pebbly, but the glamour is undeniable.

Southeast Asia has entered the luxury conversation properly in recent years. Phang Nga Bay in Thailand, with those limestone karsts rising straight from the water, provides a backdrop that makes you feel like you've wandered into a film set. The resorts there have got the memo about not overdoing it—plenty of teak, plenty of green, plenty of space between you and the next guest.

There is a strange, quiet moment that tends to happen around day three of one of these holidays. You've slept properly for the first time in months. You've eaten something that made you close your eyes in sheer enjoyment. You've gone swimming in water so clear you could count the grains of sand on the bottom. And suddenly you're sitting somewhere—a private deck, an empty stretch of beach at dawn, a restaurant terrace with the lights of the villa stretching back into the tropical dark—and you realise how much noise you normally live with. The notifications, the deadlines, the low-grade anxiety of maintaining a life in a crowded, expensive world. It doesn't vanish entirely, but it gets pushed to arm's length for a while. You can see it clearly from here, and you can choose not to engage with it yet.

That perspective is the real luxury, more than the Egyptian cotton or the personal butler. It's the space to remember who you are when you're not performing competence for eight hours a day. The tan fades, the photos get buried in your Google photos album, but that particular feeling—that you briefly existed outside the machinery of your normal life—lingers longer than you'd expect.
Which is why, of course, you start saving up for the next one before the current one has even ended.

Exclusive Luxury 5 star Beach Resorts in the worlds top destinations

Looking for the ultimate exclusive luxury in a 5* beach resort? We explore and review the top 5* Luxury resorts in the best holiday locations. Come explore a true luxury resort experience around the world with Exclusive Travel

Affording an exclusive luxury resort.