A flight to Santo via Port Vila reaches Vanuatu’s largest island, where this adults-only resort hosts just nine couples at a time on its own private island and a beachfront site on the east coast. Meals are chef-prepared and included, and a welcome drink is poured the moment you arrive.

Santo’s blue holes are freshwater springs filtered through limestone to an almost luminous blue, with Nanda and Riri among the best known, rope swings included. Champagne Beach, named either for the bubbles that rise from the sand underwater or a French couple’s dropped bottle depending who’s telling it, rounds out the day.

A traditional kava ceremony, the root-based drink central to Vanuatu’s culture and hospitality, is paired with a visit to the local market with the resort’s own chef, who explains what’s in season and what’s going into that evening’s dinner.