TROPICAL VILLA IN MAURITIUS

Mauritius is a great family destination with a good choice of villas, but you need to be careful with timing. February is the wettest month of the year, though the rain tends to fall in afternoon downpours. By the Easter holidays (which are late this year) it’s starting to look much drier.

£8,330 rental-only at Villa Mia, a stylish house sleeping up to 10, plus once child, in the private grounds of Trou d’Eau Douce, near the ShangriLa and Touessrok beaches. The price, for Easter, includes a housekeeper to help with cooking. SJ Villas (sjvillas.co.uk).

How hot? 84F (29C) a trip up Table Mountain, combined with a wine-tasting tour from a comfortable hotel in South Africa’s gourmet capital, Franschhoek.

From £1,800 including car hire. Audley Travel (audleytravel.com). How hot? 77F (25C) new ship Celebrity Edge has more than a dozen restaurants overseen by Michelin-starred chef Cornelius Gallagher. A seven-night Caribbean Cruise, departing from Fort Lauderdale in Florida, calls into the Puerto Rican port of San Juan, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, and Philipsburg in St Maarten.

From £810, full-board (a supplement is payable in some restaurants), excluding flights and

DIVINEThailand’s Wat Rong Khun temple, main; Villa Mia, Mauritius, below