Burgh Island

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Pack your dinner jacket or flapper frock: at gorgeous, glamorous art-deco Burgh Island, guests definitely dress for dinner. The gleaming-white palace sits gracefully on its own tidal island, and the guest list includes Agatha Christie (who penned And Then There Were None here), Noel Coward, 'Fruity' Metcalfe and Josephine Baker. Period-style rooms are frankly fabulous and have sublime views.

Expect 1930s-style sofas and fabrics, plus geometric rugs, slipper baths and retro radios. It's perfect for cocktails and croquet, and feeling delightfully marooned.

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