Located on the top of a hill, in the Santa Teresa neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, between the city’s center and the sandy beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema, Chez Georges is a modernist villa designed by architect Wladimir Alves de Souza.

Casa Cat Ba is a private beachfront hideaway on Isla Holbox, Yucatan, Mexico.

It is a 5 rooms-only villa, dedicated to offer the highest level of personal services to its guests.

Casa Cat Ba is an exclusive and authentic intimate Mayan-style villa, redesigned with local materials, natural colors in a Wabi-Sabi style. The design mood of the hotel is exotic, stylish, minimalist and Bohemian Chic. Vintage furniture, local handcrafts and worldwide artwork give the place a personal and unique touch.

A few minutes walk from the beach, within the streets of Sayulita, you will find Hotel Don Bonito, a white building peeking out among the tropical vegetation. Don Bonito is the perfect combination of comfort and sophistication

The hotel sits on a historic townhouse in ruins and was renovated into 7 studio apartments and a pool in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, offering a discrete, slow travel style retreat for independent travelers versus the island massive holiday resorts.

If there is such a thing as the epitome of cool then the Slow would be it. The hotel has clearly drawn inspiration from the Bali surf world but has reimagined and updated it to feature trendy, cutting-edge, minimalist design.

Stay at one of Bali’s most beautiful best-kept secrets: Villa Merci, a four bedroom luxury villa located in Umalas between Seminyak and Canggu.

Casa la Distancia is nestled on the hill overlooking Playa Mermejita and Punta Cometa, the southernmost point in the state of Oaxaca. The home is also a short walk from Playa Rinconcito in Mazunte. While the house is just a short walk to these three beaches, once on the home’s expansive wooden deck, overlooking the tree canopy and the coastline, you truly feel alone in nature. In late July, butterflies abound, fluttering above the canopy. Dozens of different birds fly past each day, singing their respective songs, and the ocean waves are not far in the distance.

With jet lag setting in after a four hour drive from Colombo airport, our early morning arrival at PALM was a little blurry but I do remember feeling at home straight away - perhaps it was the juice laced with vodka (recommend this to anyone struggling with timezone trickery), or maybe it was owner the Miriam, her smile and the fact that she let us snooze uninterrupted on cushions whilst she quietly fast-tracked our cabana.

Trancoso, in Brazil’s coastal state of Bahia, is unspoiled, unassuming, and effortlessly charming. The dirt roads from Porto Seguro airport will lead you to this natural paradise that for years has been inhabited only by fisherman and hippies. Its appeal, which has been kept very much under wraps, has drawn in the in-the-know jetsetters and celebrities that seek a break from the spoiled beaches of Tulum and Ibiza. But Trancoso’s best kept secret? Tropical oasis, Casa de Perainda