Le Commandant Charcot
Ponant's Polar Class 2 icebreaker, which goes deep into the Weddell Sea ice with Alain Ducasse on the menu.
Places to stay we know well
76 hotels, camps, villas and ships, each described by the specialist who recommends it, including who it does not suit.
16 places to stay match your filters.
Sylvia Earle
Aurora Expeditions' 130-guest X-BOW ship, small enough for plenty of landings and set up for kayakers, divers and ski tourers.
Ultramarine
A 199-guest polar ship with two helicopters on board, built to take you beyond the landing sites every other ship shares.
&Beyond Chobe Under Canvas
Five canvas tents at a semi-permanent site in northern Chobe, with no electricity, bucket showers, and the elephant herds of the Chobe River close by.
Jack's Camp
A 1940s-style tented camp on the edge of the Makgadikgadi salt pans, for meerkats, zebra migration and nights out on the crust.
Zaborin
Fifteen villas in the forest near Hanazono, each with its own indoor and outdoor hot spring bath, and a northern take on kaiseki.
Karisia Walking Safaris
Camel-supported walking safaris through northern Laikipia, moving camp each day on foot, with Tumaren Camp as a comfortable base.
ol Donyo Lodge
A hillside lodge in the Chyulu Hills facing Kilimanjaro, with horseback safaris, rooftop star beds and a sunken hide at the waterhole.
Sasaab
Eleven Swahili and Moroccan-style tented suites above the Ewaso Nyiro River, each with a plunge pool and a view to Mount Kenya.
COMO Maalifushi
A calm, well-run island in the remote south with surf breaks, a strong COMO Shambhala spa and an all-inclusive plan that keeps the bill in check.
LUX* Le Morne
A breezy, good-humoured resort at the foot of Le Morne mountain, on one of the island's best beaches for sunsets.
Denis Private Island
A flat island on the edge of the Seychelles plateau: 23 beach cottages, a farm, an airstrip, and no mobile signal or in-room internet.