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MOROCCO’S DREAMIEST SPOT

Overlooking a lagoon on a nature reserve, La Sultana Oualidia is Morocco’s dreamiest seaside retreat. It is super-private, tucked away on its own beach outside the obscure fishing village of Oualidia. Suites built from natural materials all have private terraces and jacuzzis, so you don’t even have to leave your room – though there’s a great spa, surfing, horse riding and birdwatching on offer, and two restaurants, with seafood a speciality.

Four-night breaks cost £1,400 per person, B&B in a panorama room, including flights to Casablanca and private transfers, with Wix Squared (020 3808 6383; wixsquared.com)

BE INDOLENT IN OMAN

Swashbuckling types will tell you Oman is a land of adventure, of dune bashing and Bedouin camping. What they might not mention are its spangly five-star resorts encouraging slothful indulgence – the best so inaccessible that you couldn’t leave even if you wanted to. Set on a blindingly white beach, Six Senses Zighy Bay is coddled by mountains; to reach it, guests can paraglide in or arrive by speedboat. Days are spent mainly horizontal – lounging by pools, being rubbed in the spa, snorkelling in the Gulf of Oman – while kids’ and teens’ clubs keep children entertained. Dinner, whether on hilltop or shore, is worth sitting up for.

A six-day trip costs from £3,435 per person, including flights transfers and accommodation with Audley Travel (01993 460901; audleytravel.com/oman) iYour own bubble: La Sultana Oualidia suites have private terraces and jacuzzis

PINING FOR CORSICA

France’s Ile de Beauté is tricky to navigate, with its prickly natives and few (exquisite but expensive) hotels – but the reward for the few who make the effort is one of the Mediterranean’s most beautiful, unspoiled coastlines, with beaches of fine white sand and luminous turquoise water, backed with fragrant maquis. Try, in the little explored north, U Palazzu Serenu; in the south, U Capu Biancu or La Plage Casadelmar, or most exclusive of all, Domaine de Murtoli, a vast estate where Europe’s high-profile people come for low-profile holidays in its rustic-chic bergeries.

SJ Villas can arrange stays at

Domaine de Murtoli; one-bedroom cottages cost from £439 a night in spring (020 7351 6384; sjvillas.co.uk)

MAROONED IN TURKEY

On Turkey’s undeveloped Datça Peninsula, stretching out into the turquoise Aegean, is D Maris Bay, a hard-to-reach bolthole of five-star luxury between sea and forested hills. It has five beaches of champagne-coloured sand, ranging from adults-only Silence Beach to the family-friendly, and lively, La Guérite with its beach club and parties. You can charter a yacht; otherwise, you’re pretty much marooned, in the best possible way.

A week’s holiday at D Maris Bay costs from £1,349 per person in May, B&B, including flights from Gatwick with British Airways (0344 493 0787; britishairways.com)