Lee Belcher

Nov 2, 2024 | thetimes.com | Lisa Grainger |Helen Lawson |Georgina Roberts |Lee Belcher

Sometimes you don’t feel like staying in a hotel. All that dressing up. Checking in — and being checked out by other guests. Having to change for dinner. What you really want is a gorgeous home, with all the perks of a hotel but none of the hindrances. Here we pick five of the finest seaside villas to check into with a bunch of friends or (very lucky) family, from an Ibizan farmhouse and a castle on a private island off Cannes to a Cornish cliff retreat.