THE BEST ADDRESSES

  • Everyone has the overnight train fantasy. The window steaming up as the countryside darkens, a glass of something decent on a small table, the particular quality of sleep that only motion seems to produce, waking somewhere new to pale morning light and the sensation that travel has actually happened rather than merely been endured. It is a good fantasy. The question is whether it survives contact with the booking process, the actual rolling stock, and the man in the corridor who wants to discuss his journey at eleven-thirty at night.

  • Ibiza has been quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) reinventing itself for years now. The clubs are still there, obviously, and the sunsets remain as aggressively beautiful as ever. But the hotel scene? It’s undergone something of a revolution. A new wave of architects, hoteliers and wellness visionaries have descended on the White Isle and the result is a luxury hotel offering that rivals anywhere in the Mediterranean, from clifftop Six Senses retreats in the wild north to razor-sharp design hotels overlooking the marina.

  • The island’s only Michelin-starred restaurant sits inside The Club Hotel & Spa in St Helier, and is run by Head Chef Tom Earnshaw, who was named the Michelin Guide’s 2026 Young Chef of the Year earlier this year. That last detail is worth dwelling on. Young Chef of the Year isn’t a consolation prize or a career achievement award; it goes to someone doing something genuinely interesting at this specific moment. Not someone coasting on a reputation. Someone cooking, right now, better than almost anyone else their age in the country.