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Romance, for two

Honeymoons

The most romantic stays we know: water villas in the Maldives, honeymoon tents in the Maasai Mara, a hot spring pool below Arenal and a suite that looks onto the Duomo.

The idea

Honeymoons

A honeymoon asks for something an ordinary holiday does not: privacy without isolation, service that anticipates rather than intrudes, and a setting you will still describe to each other years from now. This collection gathers the stays that do this best, from villas over the lagoon and island cays to tented camps, rainforest hot springs and a rooftop above Florence.

Many of the honeymoons we plan pair two places, a safari camp before the sea or Florence before the Tuscan hills, so the journey has a beginning and an arrival. We hold the villa, the transfers and the private dinners as one plan, and confirm every detail with each house for your dates.

Season decides much of the choice. The Maldives and Cayo Espanto are at their clearest from December to April, while Fiji’s drier months run from May to October, which makes the Pacific a natural answer to a northern summer wedding.

If the celebration itself is still ahead, our Weddings & Celebrations collection gathers the houses that host weddings, vow renewals and milestone parties. For villas built over the water, continue to Overwater & Lagoon.

The chapters

Where the two of you go

Six ways into the collection, each with a room, a pool or a table made for two.

Aerial view of Bawah Reserve overwater bungalows at sunset above a turquoise lagoon, Anambas Islands
Photo courtesy of Bawah Reserve

01 Maldives · Anambas · Belize · Vietnam

Over the water

Villas above the lagoon, with the sea beneath the floor and nobody on the horizon.

  • Cheval Blanc Randheli

    Water, Lagoon and Horizon villas on stilts in Noonu Atoll, with Guerlain treatments and five cuisines without a resort plaza.

  • Bawah Reserve

    Overwater bungalows among three marine reserve lagoons, for couples who want somewhere quieter and more natural, proposals and anniversaries included.

  • Cayo Espanto

    Casa Ventanas, a one-bedroom overwater bungalow with a glass floor on the main dock, and a houseman for the two of you.

  • Six Senses Ninh Van Bay

    A Water Pool Villa at the water’s edge, a sunset cruise on a wooden boat and dinner on the sand at Bae Beach.

The covered deck of a Mapou villa with a dining table for four, open to the sea and distant islands
Photo courtesy of Secret Bay

02 Fiji · Dominica

An island for two

Islands where the beach, the pool and the evening are yours alone.

  • Kokomo Private Island

    For couples who want the sea to themselves: beachfront pool villas in walled gardens at the edge of the Great Astrolabe Reef.

  • LAUCALA Island

    One-bedroom Plateau, Plantation, Seagrass or Udu villas, each with its own pool, on a private island of 3,015 acres.

  • Secret Bay

    Honeymoon Villas made for romancing the island, dinner on the Vetiver Sunset Deck and a private table on the decks of Gwiyavye’ Heights.

Cottar’s 1920s Camp, Maasai Mara: Kiboko honeymoon tent with wood-burning stove
Photo: Cottar's Safaris / Teagan Cunniffe

03 Maasai Mara · Kalahari · Rajasthan

Safari for two

Camps and private homes where the wild is close and the evening belongs to two.

  • Cottar’s 1920s Camp

    Two honeymoon tents: Kiboko, with a wood-fired hot tub, and Molo, with an outdoor bathtub on a private deck.

  • Tswalu Kalahari

    A Loapi home with its own chef and plunge pool, and a night at Malori on a raised deck above the dunes, beneath the stars.

  • Dera Amer

    Honeymooners share the camp with one other couple at most, with dinner by lantern light in the Aravalli foothills near Amer.

A canvas tent at Nayara Tented Camp lit from within at dusk, its bedroom glowing through glass walls among the rainforest
Photo: Nayara Resorts

04 Arenal · Phuket

Rainforest and hot springs

Hot spring pools, rainforest canopy and dinner brought to the villa, each with a pool of your own.

  • Nayara Tented Camp

    A tent of your own above the forest, a hot spring pool on the terrace and Bésame Mucho, a candlelit dinner for adults only.

  • Amor Arenal

    A King casita, the plunge pool at dusk, a spa ritual for two and six courses in the wine cellar. Guests aged thirteen and over.

  • Keemala

    Every villa a one-bedroom hideaway with its own pool and terrace, and dinner brought to the villa at any time of day.

Two guests on a snowy island beneath a sweeping arc of aurora, Blachford Lake
Photo: Chase Theron

05 New Zealand · Canada

Under the stars

Dark skies, high country and the northern lights, with nobody else in sight.

  • The Lindis

    A Pod in the tussock, a bath beneath the stars and an evening of stargazing with nobody else in sight. Guests aged twelve and over.

  • Mt Isthmus Villa

    The whole house for two, with dinner by the fire and the hot tub under the stars, reserved for one party at a time above Lake Hāwea.

  • Blachford Lodge

    Honeymoons on the lake beneath some of the most frequent and vivid aurora on earth, with a team watching the sky all night.

Piazza Santa Maria Novella at dusk, with the dome of Florence Cathedral and Giotto's bell tower beyond the rooftops
Photo: Hotel L'Orologio Florence

06 Florence · Chianti · Volterra

Italy, slowly

A city suite before the hills: the Duomo from a rooftop, then vineyards and long lunches.

  • Hotel L’Orologio Florence

    The Honeymoon Suite, over two floors, its bedroom windows framing the Duomo above a private rooftop terrace for breakfast or a candlelit dinner.

  • Villa Gran Sogno

    For adults only: a king room, the pool and the vineyard light outside Castellina in Chianti, with hosts close at hand.

  • Borgo Pignano

    Two-bedroom villas in woodland, beside a lake or on a hilltop, for a slow week of long lunches, rides and quiet pools near Volterra.

Featured

Leading stays

The collection

Further stays

Anambas Islands · Resort

Bawah Reserve

Six islands in Indonesia’s remote Anambas archipelago: thirty-six suites and villas among three marine reserve lagoons and a hundred hectares of primary forest, reached by seaplane from Batam…

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Cayo Espanto · Resort

Cayo Espanto

Belize’s private-island resort of a handful of villas: butler service, chef-tailored meals, and reef mornings, arranged privately by Exclusive Villa Collection on an inquire-only basis.

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LAUCALA Island · Resort

LAUCALA Island

Fiji’s private-island address of twenty-four pool villas (farm-to-table dining, spa stillness, and a David McLay Kidd championship course) personally curated by Exclusive Villa Collection as inquire-only.

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Dominica · Resort, Villa

Secret Bay

An all-villa resort on a rainforest promontory above the Caribbean Sea in Dominica, the Nature Island: twenty-seven freestanding villas with private plunge pools and dedicated villa hosts, two…

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Phuket · Resort

Keemala

Thirty eight private pool villas on a rainforest hillside above Kamala, on Phuket's west coast, each inspired by the mythical clans of the island's first inhabitants: cottages of…

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Central Otago · Resort

The Lindis

A lodge of eight rooms on the 6,500-acre Ben Avon Station in the Ahuriri Valley, its timber roof following the contours of the land, with braided rivers, tussock…

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Traveler questions

Before you choose

  • How long should a honeymoon be? Ten nights to two weeks lets two places breathe without a day lost to travel. With a week, we suggest one house rather than two.
  • Can we pair safari and the sea? Yes. A tented camp in the Maasai Mara or a home at Tswalu, followed by water villas or an island, gives the journey two registers: the wild first, then the sea.
  • Which of these stays are for adults only? Villa Gran Sogno is for adults only. Amor Arenal welcomes guests aged thirteen and over and The Lindis twelve and over, and at Nayara Tented Camp the adults only Nayara Springs and Nayara Gardens share the reserve.
  • When should we travel? The Maldives and Cayo Espanto are clearest from December to April, and Fiji’s drier months run from May to October. Tell us your wedding date and we will match the house to the season.

Photo courtesy of Las Alamandas

Journeys

Written conversation-first

Every week begins with a conversation: seasons, transfers, and houses are shaped with our team rather than taken from a catalogue. Browse our journeys, or begin here.

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The places

Explore by destination

The destinations behind the houses above, for when you want the map before the week.

Maldives

Randheli Island

Randheli Island: Cheval Blanc’s Noonu Atoll Maison of overwater, beach, and Private Island villas, curated by Exclusive Villa Collection.

Indonesia

Anambas Islands

The Anambas Islands: six islands, three marine reserve lagoons, and thirteen beaches in Indonesia’s Riau Islands, home to Bawah Reserve and curated by Exclusive Villa Collection.

Belize

Cayo Espanto

Belize’s private cay off Ambergris Caye: a handful of villas, butler service, and barrier-reef mornings held for Exclusive Villa Collection inquiries.

Kenya

Maasai Mara

Kenya’s Maasai Mara: Olderkesi Conservancy wildlife and Cottar's Safaris stays, curated by Exclusive Villa Collection.

Destination

South Africa

Two private reserves, Tswalu in the red dunes of the Kalahari and Samara in the mountains of the Great Karoo, both malaria free.

Costa Rica

Arenal

The rainforest foothills of Arenal Volcano above La Fortuna, where Amor Arenal keeps thirty-one casitas on the edge of a forest canyon.

New Zealand

Central Otago

Otago’s high country of lakes, schist ranges and mountain passes, and beyond the Lindis Pass the Ahuriri Valley, home of The Lindis.

Tuscany

Florence

The Renaissance city on foot, from Piazza Santa Maria Novella to the Ponte Vecchio, with Hotel L’Orologio Florence on the piazza and the Tuscan hills an hour away.

Tuscany

Chianti

The Chianti Classico hills between Florence and Siena, where Villa Gran Sogno keeps five king rooms among the vines outside Castellina in Chianti.

Destination

Iceland

Iceland with Exclusive Villa Collection: the Golden Circle of waterfalls, geysers and rift valleys, opened through Torfhús Retreat, turf-roofed houses with geothermal hot pools beneath the northern lights.

Destination

Costalegre

The Costalegre with Exclusive Villa Collection: Mexico’s quietest stretch of the Pacific, between Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo, opened through Las Alamandas, a private reserve of four beaches.

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