Top 10 Honeymoon Hotels & Resorts, 2026

The single most requested honeymoon villa in the world, for good reason: vast overwater villas whose roofs retract at the touch of a button so you fall asleep under the stars, many with slides from the deck into a lagoon the colour of glass. Add an over-water cinema, an observatory, and the barefoot 'no news, no shoes' ethos — romance without stiffness.

Crossing the teak bridge into Sayan's lotus-pond arrival remains one of travel's great entrances — and below, villas step down into the Ayung River valley amid rice terraces and jungle birdsong. Twice named the world's #1 hotel by Travel + Leisure, it is the romantic heart of Bali: private plunge pools, river-valley views and the Sacred River Spa.

For couples whose taste runs to fashion-house polish rather than barefoot rusticity, LVMH's Maison in the Maldives is the answer — around 45 vast contemporary villas, each with its own pool, a Guerlain Spa, and service tuned to near-invisible perfection. The four-bedroom Private Island, reached by its own jetty, is the ultimate honeymoon flex.

A 14th-century convent on a Taormina clifftop, with Mount Etna on the horizon, the Greek theatre up the lane and an infinity pool suspended over the Ionian Sea. The White Lotus made it famous; the cloistered gardens, frescoed salons and Michelin dining make it genuinely romantic. Sicily's golden light does the rest.

The Riviera's Belle Époque grande dame, on seventeen pine-shaded acres at the tip of the most exclusive peninsula in France. Days revolve around Club Dauphin, the legendary cliffside saltwater pool above the Mediterranean; evenings around champagne on the lawn. A century of lovers and film stars can't be wrong.

The original Aman, on a private coconut-palm headland above the Andaman Sea — Thai pavilions, a crescent of private beach, and a stillness that has drawn honeymooners since 1988. The wellness centre is among Asia's best, and the resort's yachts make a private sunset sail effortless.

Two 16th-century manor houses in Mallorca's most romantic village, on terraces of olive and citrus beneath the Tramuntana mountains. Art everywhere (Miró included), donkeys to walk you into the hills, and the village of Deià — long a refuge for poets and painters — at the door. Mediterranean romance in its most creative key.

Hilltop pool villas gazing straight at the limestone karsts of Phang Nga Bay — arguably the most romantic view in Southeast Asia. Breakfast arrives by your pool, sunset drinks happen at a treetop bar, and the island of Yao Noi itself remains sleepy and rural. Barefoot romance, big scenery.

On a hillside above the Lombok Strait in quiet East Bali, Amankila's three-tiered infinity pool — the most photographed in the Aman world — cascades toward the sea like the rice terraces it echoes. Thatched suites on stilts, a near-private beach club below the cliff, and Bali's sacred east on the doorstep.

Hidden in a secret moss garden at the foot of Kyoto's northern hills, invisible from any road, Aman Kyoto is the most quietly romantic hotel in Japan — minimalist pavilions in a forest, an open-air onsen among mossy boulders, and the temples of the old capital minutes away. Winter steam, spring blossom, autumn fire: every season is a different honeymoon.