Il Salviatino, a 15th-century villa in the hills above Florence, on the family summer of balloon rides over the Duomo, garden dining and a greenhouse spa.

Christopher Nolan shot The Odyssey across Rome, Malta and Marrakech. Three properties turn those Mediterranean coordinates into somewhere worth staying this summer.

Villa Barumbara Tal-Laring sleeps twelve adults and six children near Mdina, with a pool, cinema room, snooker table and outdoor sauna. A Maltese family summer.

Necker, Velaa, Amangiri, The Brando. One quietly run London company holds the keys to nearly every address on the private travel circuit, and almost nobody outside it knows the name.

On a coral island in the South Nilandhe Atoll, Athireege keeps Maldivian heritage as something lived, not performed, from hand-pressed coconut oil to the Malaafaih feast beneath the stars.

Silverlake, an award-winning lakeside estate in Dorset, on a family summer of paddleboarding, ponies and its new Firefly wilderness spa launching in August.

Roseate House London unveils The Roseate Residence, a 74 sqm suite set in three 1842 townhouses moments from Hyde Park, made for families and long London summers.

The Nest, a new nature retreat in the walled garden of Glenapp Castle, brings sauna-and-plunge wellness and a 110-acre estate to a Scottish family summer.

Wild Wakati is a new Serengeti tented camp built for multi-generational travel, set on a Great Migration corridor with a children’s programme and ten luxury tents.

A shipwreck dive, football camps with Premier League names, a mermaid programme and a floating water park the resort bills as the region's largest. Inside the Noonu Atoll resort rewriting the Maldives summer.

The Gulf carrier heads to Farnborough International Airshow 2026 with a FIFA World Cup livery Boeing 777-300ER, a Starlink cabin and the Qatar Executive Gulfstream G700.