Get a room: 40 secret hotels

Remote hideaways, urban hotspots, eco retreats – Lisa Grainger lists the places the package tours cannot reach
25. Areias do Seixo, Lisbon
25. Areias do Seixo, Lisbon

1 Tusitiri
This floating hotel – a traditional dhow, with a crew of ten to attend to ten guests – plies relatively unexplored East African waters from Mozambique to Tanzania. During the day, guests can fish for tuna, snorkel and waterski; at night, after a seafood feast, mattresses are laid on deck so everyone can fall asleep while watching meteors shoot across the Milky Way.
From £2,750 a night for 6, full board (enasoit.com)

2 Little Chem Chem
French conservationist Nicolas Negre and his Swiss partner, Fabia Bausch, went to Tanzania to try to conserve wildlife while creating memorable experiences for guests. Five years later they own two tented safari camps, with stylish interiors, delicious food and good game-spotting. Little Chem Chem is