Five stylish hotel suites

From an exclusive villa in the Seychelles to a luxury pad in New York. Chris Carter reports

Villa North Island, Seychelles © 
Villa North Island
(Image credit: Villa North Island, Seychelles © )

The Bugatti of villas

Villas No 1 to No 10 on North Island, in the Seychelles, “are gold standard-plus and you will have a jolly nice time staying in one”, says Susan d’Arcy in The Times. But then there’s Villa North Island – which will make you feel like you’ve parked your “£10m Rolls-Royce Sweptail only to have a £15m Bugatti La Voiture Noire pull up alongside”. Dramatically perched on giant boulders, Villa North Island offers Robinson Crusoe-like isolation, but in classy surroundings spread over 8,000 sq ft. That compares with around 800 sq ft for the average British home, and it’s just for two. “Think lashed-together driftwood furniture, petrified tree stumps and seashell curtains, as well as a show-stopping waterfall of wooden decks with cabanas, hot tubs and fire pits that segue down to a golden beach.” From £10,000, all-inclusive; north-island.com/villa-north-island.

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Chris Carter
Wealth Editor, MoneyWeek

Chris Carter spent three glorious years reading English literature on the beautiful Welsh coast at Aberystwyth University. Graduating in 2005, he left for the University of York to specialise in Renaissance literature for his MA, before returning to his native Twickenham, in southwest London. He joined a Richmond-based recruitment company, where he worked with several clients, including the Queen’s bank, Coutts, as well as the super luxury, Dorchester-owned Coworth Park country house hotel, near Ascot in Berkshire.

Then, in 2011, Chris joined MoneyWeek. Initially working as part of the website production team, Chris soon rose to the lofty heights of wealth editor, overseeing MoneyWeek’s Spending It lifestyle section. Chris travels the globe in pursuit of his work, soaking up the local culture and sampling the very finest in cuisine, hotels and resorts for the magazine’s discerning readership. He also enjoys writing his fortnightly page on collectables, delving into the fascinating world of auctions and art, classic cars, coins, watches, wine and whisky investing.

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