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Escape to beautiful Iki Island for a relaxing break! A stay at the okcs Retreat Iki Kairi, overlooking Yunomoto Bay, introduces you to a world of relaxation and wellbeing. Designed with its stunning seaside setting in mind, the hotel features floor-to-ceiling windows, a sleek interior scheme and a natural colour palette. There are just 12 rooms, each of which celebrates traditional elements such as Japanese-style dining tables and sliding-screen window shades.

Located in the Hakone district of Sengokuhara, with easy access to local landmarks and historic as well as natural wonders, okcs Retreat Hakone före & villa 1/f offers guests a sense of utter privacy and seclusion.

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Six Senses instantly became a pioneer for a new kind of responsible travel when it was founded in 1995. Imagine what responsible travel represents and the priorities become clear: respect for the environment and sensitivity to the local community. At the same time, guests have a chance to reconnect with nature and discover a renewed sense of calm and well-being. For Six Senses, however, these values are not only influences – they are a mission statement. As the company’s very name implies, Six Senses has an especially high reputation for wellness, catering to the mind, body and spirit of its guests. This goes much deeper than routine massages and other therapies to revitalize tired limbs.

At Six Senses, guests can expect in-depth consultations and therapies from renowned guest practitioners as well as the hotel or resort’s own professional therapists. Since the company has an Asian heritage, it is appropriate that Six Senses now starts and finishes each of these wellness therapies with a signature Singing Bowl ritual, claiming to create a “soothing humming vibration” to promote balance and relaxation. This is a satisfyingly idiosyncratic, but calming step that fits the brand and should, quite literally, ring true with guests.

A villa-only resort on an unheard-of beach, where every guest has a private pool and personal butler service, can’t possibly be ethically responsible, right? Not so fast. Look beyond the lauded restaurant and secluded spa, and you’ll find a commitment to local communities and ecosystems, from providing clean drinking water for school children, to protecting the endangered dugong native to the shores of Con Dao. Even the driving range’s golf balls dissolve after being submerged for 48 hours, revealing a nugget of fish food.

For those constantly searching for their next favorite vintage, Six Senses Douro Valley might just have the answer. The very first resort that Six Senses has opened in Europe is set in a handsome 19th-century manor but features clean, cool, 21st-century interiors. The property is also surrounded by the oldest demarcated wine region in the world. Much of the food is grown in the eight hectares of organic gardens on the property, while the spa offers locally inspired, grape-based treatments. The resort’s interactive wine academy even allows its guests to dive into the winemaking process with some of Portugal’s leading winemakers, from grape-harvesting and stomping through to learning how to blend their own wine.

From the villas decorated with traditionally produced homeware to the sunset fire-lighting ritual, the chance to surf one of the world’s most challenging spots or the cultural nights, everything at the recently opened Six Senses Fiji enhances guests’ interaction with the local environment, both above and below water. But the resort – which is located in the stunning Mamanuca Islands archipelago – goes beyond this, putting care for the wider environment centre stage thanks to its sustainability activities. For example, the property is 100 per cent solar powered and the first microgrid in the world to use Tesla batteries; there is also tree reforestation on site to offset wood used in construction and coral reforestation to promote sea life. Furthermore, the resort’s cuisine features ingredients from local farmers, markets and fishermen as well as those grown in the resort’s own gardens – which also provide medicinal plants for the impressive on-site spa, a key part of the Six Senses wellness offering.

It may be in the kind of olive and cypress tree-clad setting that graced antiquity and located between two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but Six Senses Kaplankaya is certainly not looking towards the past. Since coming under the wellbeing-focused operator’s umbrella, the resort has undergone a transformation, updating its interior style and exterior landscaping. Staying true to Six Senses’ integrated approach to wellness, the resort not only features a 100,000 sq ft Spa, Fitness and Health + Healing Center – where nutritionists, exercise physiologists and certified fitness instructors are on hand – but also serves up fresh, locally sourced and nutritionally balanced cuisine with Turkish flavors at its three restaurants. If the available activities, or even the spa treatments, require too much energy, guests can simply gaze out onto the eternal Aegean Sea from all rooms and suites.

Most Maldivian resorts are located on their own private island, but Six Senses Laamu goes one better: it’s got an entire atoll to itself, a mere five degrees north of the Equator. This means guests inherit a vast house reef for snorkeling and diving, as well as several deserted islands to explore – not to mention the country’s most famous surfing wave, Yin Yang, that breaks just offshore of the resort. Meanwhile for adventurous palates, there’s the alfresco ice cream parlor peddling more than 40 weird and wonderful flavors like wasabi and sour cream, or black pepper strawberry.

Perhaps the swankiest of the Thai islands, Koh Samui is awash with superlatives. But any seasoned visitor knows that for top-notch cuisine with top-level views, it has to be Dining on the Rocks. Six Senses Samui’s acclaimed restaurant serves up fresh fare – much of it sourced from the resort’s organic gardens – to guests seated on ten terraced decks overlooking the sea. It’s hard to tell who’s upstaging who: the 270-degree views or the chef’s gourmet fusion creations.

It may be close to Nha Trang, one of Vietnam’s most popular beach towns, but Six Senses Ninh Van Bay is a world unto itself. Surreal rock formations preside over a bay very much deserted, if not for a scattering of teak and bamboo structures that house the resort’s spa, restaurants and luxury villas. For the most otherworldly experience in the privacy of your accommodations, go for a Water Pool Villa. These are nestled among imposing boulders on the edge of the bay, such that you can either take a dip in your personal pool or shimmy down your ladder straight into the East Vietnam Sea.