Private Island
Resorts
This is private island living.
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231 records · 49 countries · Edition 2026
194 open now · 9 forthcoming or in transformation
One island.One resort.
- No second hotel
- No town
- No day visitors
You book a villa.
You live on a private island.
The core collection begins where one resort controls the island. The register also records island societies, shared islands, historic operators and forthcoming openings — each of them labelled, none of them passed off as the formula above.
The Collections
Seven ways into the register- Entire Island40The island is taken whole, by one party. Nothing is shared, because there is no one to share it with.
- Little Paradises56Twenty-five keys or fewer. Small enough that the staff learn your name on the first evening.
- Island Resorts68A complete resort on an island of its own — restaurants, spa, dive centre, children's club.
- Island Worlds18A hundred keys or more on a single island, large enough that guests move by bicycle.
- Archipelagos & Atolls15One property holding several islands, a lagoon or a whole atoll. The water is part of the estate.
- Island Societies16A resort alongside private houses. You arrive as a guest and leave knowing the neighbours.
- Heritage & Singular18A fortress, a castle, a tidal island, an island in a river or a lake. Islands that are not tropical at all.
231 records on the registerEach entry is researched against the register standard
The Atlas
14 water regionsSee the island
before you go.
Original films and field notes from the islands we have visited. Not every island has a film yet, and the register says which do.
Watch the filmsThree ways in.
- TravellersTell us who is coming and when. We name the islands that fit — and the ones that don't.
- Agents & operatorsRates, availability and the full register, with the detail that isn't on a fact sheet.
- HotelsOne island, one resort, and nothing else on it. If that is your property, we would like to see it.