Global destinations
Twelve places
the office knows by heart.
Where members fly, charter, stay, and are looked after. Mediterranean summers, Caribbean Christmases, alpine winters, two cities on warm winter air. Each page is a quiet briefing — the right airport, the working anchorage, the hotel that opens its allocations in March.
01Mediterranean
7 destinations
Monaco
The principality that hosts the F1 weekend and the Yacht Show.
Monaco fits two square kilometres along the Ligurian coast and operates on two annual rhythms — the Grand Prix in late May, when Port Hercule fills with raft-moored superyachts and apartments on Avenue Princesse Grace clear €40k a night, and the Monaco Yacht Show in the last week of September, when the same harbour becomes the largest broker's gallery on water
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Saint-Tropez
Côte d'Azur village, week-long anchorages, lunch at Club 55.
Saint-Tropez is a village of six thousand permanent residents that absorbs another sixty thousand each August
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Cannes
The Croisette in May — Film Festival, Lions, MIPIM, Yachting.
Cannes is a Côte d'Azur working city that, four times a year, fills with the global creative-industry machine: MIPIM in March (commercial real estate), the Film Festival in May, Cannes Lions in June (advertising), and the Cannes Yachting Festival in September
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Mykonos
Cycladic anchorages, beach-club afternoons, Old Port at midnight.
Mykonos is a small Cycladic island — 105 square kilometres — that runs on a six-week season from mid-June to early September
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Santorini
Caldera anchorages, Oia sundown, the crossing from Mykonos.
Santorini is the lip of a collapsed volcano — a six-kilometre crescent of black-and-red cliff that drops three hundred metres into a flooded caldera
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Capri
Marina Grande, the Faraglioni, dinner at La Fontelina.
Capri is six square kilometres of limestone island in the Bay of Naples, a thirty-minute ferry from Sorrento, an hour from Naples
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Amalfi Coast
Positano cliffs, Belmond Caruso terrace, Le Sirenuse afternoon.
The Amalfi Coast runs forty kilometres along the south side of the Sorrentine Peninsula — a UNESCO World Heritage stretch of vertiginous limestone cliff, terraced lemon groves, and a single coast road (the SS163, Strada Statale Amalfitana) that takes three hours to drive from end to end in summer traffic
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03Middle East
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04Indian Ocean
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05Alps
2 destinations
Gstaad
Quiet Swiss winter, chalet weeks, the Palace bar at six.
Gstaad is a German-speaking village of three thousand permanent residents in the Bernese Oberland — a deliberately small, quiet alpine resort that has been the discreet end of the European winter scene since the 1950s
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St. Moritz
Engadin valley, Badrutt's Palace at noon, Snow Polo on the lake.
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