Shutters on the Beach, California

Sand and sea are calling. Come home to beachfront living in Santa Monica, California. Shutters on the Beach is a luxury hotel offering the ideal vacation setting. This beachfront hotel features spacious guest rooms and suites, a spa, two on-site restaurants, an outdoor pool, wedding receptions, and meeting and event venues. Each guest room and suite at the lovely Shutters on the Beach is just like a private beach cottage, boasting all the comforts of home during your stay.

Shutters now offer for sale a collection of hand-selected items that reflect "beach style" living at its best. Items from the hotel store include imported Italian pewter clock and bath accessories, luxurious seersucker robes, bedding by Fili D'oro of Italy, Italian stemware from One Pico restaurant, and exclusive Shutters on the Beach SKYbLUE bath & body products.

Live the life in Spain!

Characterised by its unique futuristic seagull design and quality craftsmanship this stunning villa enjoys magnificent sea views. The accommodation comprises large living and dining areas, 2 large bedroom suites, an en suite double room as well as a self contained guest suite (with kitchen), all rooms lead to terraces. The unique design captures the essence of indoor and outdoor living as the attention to detail in both these areas is second to none. Split level terraces with BBQ area wrap around the infinity pool. Needless to say the property boasts a designer kitchen, sauna, ample secure parking spaces, sound system, surveillance cameras and state of the art climate control technology.

This villa is on the market for just over $17,000,000...better start saving!

"At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun."- Anonymous

Mexican Holiday Rental: La Casa Palapa, San Pancho

This spectacular new home is perched on the edge of the cliff right over the Pacific Ocean with the most incredible view in the area. Your days can be filled with activities such as swimming, fishing, surfing, kayaking, snorkeling, whale watching, horseback riding, bike riding, and hiking, or you can just lounge by the pool or on the white sand beach and wait for the colorful sunset as the sun drops into the beautiful, blue Pacific.

La Casa Palapa is a 3 bedroom, 4 bathroom home and it can be yours for about $3000 a week...wow!

For Sale - Unique resort style beachfront living

A unique opportunity in a premier beachfront setting, this architecturally designed home provides a relaxed resort quality upon nearly an acre of private grounds. With direct beach access, it presents an exceptional lifestyle in an exclusive location. Features include manicured lush gardens featuring rolling level lawns, a swimming pool, spa, tennis court including a putting green and flowing, light filled interiors that offer easy in/outdoor living.

This home is located in Casuarina, New South Wales and is listed with McGrath Real Estate, Broadbeach at $6,000,000!

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Escape to..... Vatulele Island Resort, Fiji

Fiji’s Vatulele Island Resort has won accolades around the world since its opening day. Noted for its attention to detail and extraordinary Santé Fe design, the unique boutique island is often hailed as one of the top ten barefoot chic hideaways in the world.

Since opening in 1990, Vatulele has developed an enviable reputation in every corner of the globe. Set on a magnificent lagoon, the beauty of the site is coupled with a unique architectural style. Priding itself on offering the utmost in luxurious and opulent service, Vatulele will cater to your every whim. An island paradise whose beauty will remain with you. Indulge yourself in the barefoot elegance.

Princess Mariana

Luxury Motor Yacht Princess Mariana was built in 2003 in the Danyard Aalborg in Denmark. She is a 258 ft superyacht which has six decks. This modern and stylish yacht is full of modern innovative features, has an impressive six decks, and can accommodate 12 permanent guests on board.

One of the most impressive features on board Princess Mariana is the Beach Club. This is a dry dock for the custom built tender which can be “flooded” when the tender is outside and forms a 12 metre swimming pool with underwater lighting and steps. In addition to this, the entire length of the starboard hull wall lowers to just above sea level, creating a large teak private sun terrace for the owner’s suite.

There is also a helipad on board - and when the helicopter has left, it becomes a golf driving range with a massive screen showing a host of well-known courses.

Princess Mariana is currently listed for sale with Engel & Volkers Worldwide. You can snap it up for a lousy $100,000,000.....but dreaming about it is free!

Alila Villas Soori bali

Alila Villas Soori is a blissful paradise setting for beachfront living at its most relaxing, most stylish and luxurious. Located along the southwest coast of Bali, not far from the island's famous Tanah Lot Temple, it lies on a gentle slope between verdant rice terraces and beautiful black-sand beaches overlooking the azure Indian Ocean.

The luxurious villas are perfectly positioned to enjoy panoramic ocean views and breezes. Multiple levels of interconnected space flow from the arrival courtyard right onto the beach. The interplay of fire and water in distinct architectural features reflects the vibrant mix of moods and experiences that await. Embrace the balance of tranquility and vitality that is so characteristic of Bali, and so refreshingly redefined at Alila Villas Soori.

Shangri-La's Tanjung Aru Resort and Spa, Kota Kinabalu

Tanjung Aru Resort and Spa, Kota Kinabalu was named one of the 2010 Top 20 Best Hotels in Asia and the Indian Subcontinent by the readers of Condé Nast Traveller, and one of the 2010 Top 25 Spa Hotels and Resorts and Top 25 Leisure Hotels and Resorts by Smarttravelasia.com.

Ala Moana, Hamilton Island, Queensland

Voted amongst one of Australia's top 10 best beach houses Ala Moana on Hamilton Island in Queensland is simply stunning. Push open this home's solid timber wooden door, slip on a kaftan and revel in uninterrupted views over the sublime turquoise waters of the Whitsunday Islands. $5500 a night (house only) or $6250 a night including host and all meals.

Ala Moana is Hawaiian for "ocean pathways".

W Retreat & Spa - The Maldives

Cast away yet connected. Natural yet designed. Secluded yet welcoming. W Retreat & Spa – Maldives is a private island and luxury playground, where style flirts with soul in a wonderland of white-sand beaches, turquoise lagoons and breathtaking reefs.