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We started the list for our own holidays, and it grew until friends asked for it.

Every house here is one we would book ourselves. We read each property's own rules before it gets a page, and we write about it the way we would tell a friend.

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Upper gallery of Riad Tizou in Marrakesh, wrought-iron balustrades and carved screens around the patio, green-tiled roofline open to the sky
21 August 2026 · 3 min read

An adults only riad in Marrakech: behind the plain door of Riad Tizou

Six rooms around one patio in the Dar El Bacha quarter. What Riad Tizou is like, why it takes adults only,...

 The evening lounge at Pleta de Mar under its reed pergola, with olive trees and a dry-stone wall beyond
12 August 2026 · 6 min read

A pine wood, a dry-stone wall, and the sea at the end of the garden

Pleta de Mar is an adults-only hotel above Canyamel on Mallorca's quiet east coast: suites in a pine wood,...

 The reed-thatched houses of Strandhotel Dünenmeer from above, with the Baltic Sea and the dune forest running north
12 August 2026 · 6 min read

Thatched houses in the dunes: an adults-only hotel on the German Baltic

Strandhotel Dünenmeer is an adults-only hotel on the Fischland-Darss spit: reed-thatched houses in the...

New places, once in a while

When we add a house worth the trip, we write one short note. Nothing else.