Editorial Collections
Collections group destinations by the kind of trip you want rather than by map position — beaches worth flying for, adventures that need a permit booked months ahead, cities that reward a slow week, and places that suit travelling with children.
Each collection is hand-assembled and updated as guides are rewritten. Browse them below.
Popular guides
- 15 Most Beautiful Places in the World
- 15 Best Cities to Visit in Europe
- 10 Best Greek Islands
- 12 Best Beaches in the Caribbean
- 25 Best Family Vacation Destinations
- 10 Best Adventure Travel Destinations
What a collection is
A collection groups destinations by the reason you might go rather than by where they are on a map. That is a more useful axis than geography for most trips: someone deciding between a first long-haul trip with small children, and someone with ten days and a tolerance for effort, are not served by the same continent page even when the answer happens to be the same country.
Each collection is a shortlist with the reasoning attached, so you can see why something made the list and, just as usefully, which entries carry a trade-off — a destination that is perfect in one month and difficult in another, or excellent value but a long way to fly. Where an entry needs more than a paragraph, it links through to the full destination guide.
Using a shortlist well
Two habits get more out of a list like this than reading it end to end. First, check the season before the destination: most of the entries here have a window in which they are at their best and a window in which they are genuinely poor value, and the gap between the two is usually larger than the gap between any two destinations on the list. Second, compare two properly rather than ranking ten — the side-by-side comparison tool sets any pairing against each other on cost, best months and travel time, which resolves a shortlist far faster than more reading.
It is also worth treating the ordering as informative rather than authoritative. These are editorial shortlists, not rankings: the entry at the top is not better than the entry at the bottom, it is simply the one that suits the most people. The right destination for a specific trip is frequently further down.
