The 30-acre beachfront resort is based around the Great House, an atmospheric mansion which now serves as the restaurant.
Just a cocktail stick's throw from Ipanema's beachfront, and reached by its own private lift, this three-bedroom penthouse mixes cool Italian marble floors, long white sofas and cowhide rugs with local artwork and 70s furniture.
A week at the beachfront Tamarindo Diria resort costs from £949pp B&B, including flights and transfers (thomson.co.uk).
He woke up one morning and decided to go for a run along the beachfront in Durban.
Catch a film The now-ruined beachfront Palacio de la Chanca was built in the 15th century by the dukes of Medina-Sidonia, who profited hugely from the tuna fishing industry, the almadraba.
Most accommodation is in village cottages and townhouses, so this beachfront villa in the hamlet of La Noue, with its parquet floors, pine-panelled walls and antique furnishings, is quite a find.
Meal for two from £16.20, +91 982 248 4051, facebook.com/SublimeMorjim Elevar, Ashvem Beach A sister venture to Sublime, Elevar is a cool beachfront bar and restaurant run by Sai, also a chef.
In Mauritius, more than $24m has gone to a developer whose portfolio includes a 170-hectare "aspirational ocean lifestyle village", with luxury beachfront homes from $500,000 and an elite boarding school managed by the Berkshire-based Wellington College. Berkshire-based Wellington College
Barbuda currently has three beachfront resorts – Coco Point Lodge, Lighthouse Bay Resort and North Beach – but they cost at least £320 a night, making the cottage a relative bargain.
Accommodation on land Rooms at Long Bay Beach Resort and Villas (www.longbay.com) start at $285 £1633) a night (April to December) for a double hillside room, while a beachfront cabana costs $350 £2000).
Doubles from £39 B&B, +27 21 788 3793, chartfield.co.za Owners Simric and Carey Yarrow created this unusual eco-house themselves – 200m from the beachfront – in surf-mad Muizenberg.
