Overwater villas, reserved motus and barefoot luxury — the world's finest shorelines, kept private.
The best beaches are the ones you have to yourself. These journeys lead to overwater sanctuaries, private islands and reserved coves where the only footprints in the sand are your own.
The water decides this one. the Maldives for a house reef at your steps, Turks & Caicos for the calmest shallows in the Caribbean, and Bora Bora when the lagoon itself is the room.
Each of these is a starting point — not a package, not a fixed schedule. Your advisor reshapes it entirely around you.
Private overwater villas above a turquoise lagoon, reserved motus, and pearl farms reached only by launch.
An overwater villa with a private house reef, a marine biologist at dawn, and the tide as your only schedule.
St. Barths villas and a private yacht through the empty cays of the San Blas — barefoot luxury, entirely your own.
Five places to be alone with the sea — then arranged entirely around your idea of paradise.
A private-island buyout, a house reef, and a sandbank for two.
An overwater villa above water so clear it seems to disappear.
A staffed beachfront villa — or a whole island to yourselves.
A Careyes cliff villa or a Riviera Maya cenote, far from the crowds.
A Phuket headland villa and longtails to beaches only boats can reach.
A beach hotel is the easy part. What makes the water feel like yours is access — the island taken whole, the house reef no day-tripper finds, the sandbank set for two — opened through forty years of relationships, never searched or booked.
None of these were on any itinerary. Yours won't be either.
No quotes. No obligation. A conversation.
A private beach escape is about access and seclusion — the cove no day-boat reaches, the island reserved for you alone. Here is where to go by season, how the finest stays are arranged, and what they typically start from.
Read the guide →A private villa or island stay starts from around US$2,500 per night, and whole-island buy-outs cost considerably more. Season, the number of villas, the staff and the transfer, whether seaplane, helicopter or yacht tender, move the final figure, which your advisor gives once the island is matched to your dates and party. Forest Travel's planning fee is US$250 per itinerary.
The water decides it: the Maldives for a house reef at your steps, Turks & Caicos for the calmest shallows in the Caribbean, and Bora Bora when the lagoon itself is the room. Then match the region to the month: the Maldives and Seychelles from November to April, the Caribbean in winter and spring, the South Pacific from May to October. Thailand's Andaman coast and Careyes in Mexico add villas reached by boat or set on a cliff.
For Northern winter sun, we route clients to the Maldives and Seychelles in the Indian Ocean, or the Caribbean's leeward gems — Mustique, Canouan, Harbour Island. French Polynesia's Bora Bora stays warm year-round. We match destination to your dates, swell, and crowd tolerance, then secure the villa and timing before the season tightens.
We orchestrate the final mile so it disappears. That may mean a seaplane onto a Maldivian lagoon, a private catamaran through the Grenadines, or a helicopter from Malé or Papeete direct to your villa's pad. Transfers, customs clearance, and luggage are handled discreetly end to end, so arrival feels like part of the escape rather than a hurdle before it.
Yes — the pairing is often the point. We bridge the Seychelles or Zanzibar with a Kenyan or Tanzanian safari, or close a Maldives stay with days in Singapore or Dubai. The handoffs — private aviation, visas, a villa waiting warm — are sequenced so the contrast feels seamless rather than logistical, with one advisor holding the entire arc.
Tell a private advisor how you like to travel and they'll point you to the right starting point — or design something entirely new.
A real person answers: an in-house luxury travel advisor, in English or Spanish. The first conversation is complimentary.
