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VICEROY, BALIBr Nagi, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, 0062-361-971-777, viceroybali.com What:This is the perfect lovers' escape as you get a villa for two with your own private pool, your own tropical garden, or a bathroom with a bath big enough for two as well as a pool in the same room.
Other villas have pavilions on stilts sitting out over infinity pools, and there are lessons in the spa for couples on how to massage each other with essential oils. The hotel also hosts weddings.
Viceroy Bali is near the artistic town of Ubud with its crafts market, shops and galleries. The hotel is set in a highland area of paddy fields, forests and rivers in south-central Bali, away from the main tourist areas to the south.
Rooms: There is a choice of villas for two including garden oness with combined indoor/outdoor living spaces including private gardens with a daybed, and bathrooms with a private pool within. Terrace villas and deluxe terrace villas come with pavilions perched over private swimming pools. A five-night Valentine's break with transfers, roses, candle-lit dinner and petal-strewn bath costs €465 a night (if you stay for all five), otherwise from €488 a night.
ARGOS IN CAPPADOCIA HOTEL,TURKEY
Argos Turizm ve Yatirim Tic, Uçhisar 50240 Nevehir, 0090-384-219-3130, argosincappadocia.com
What: This is a host of restored ancient rooms nestled into an extraplanetary terrain created over millions of years by lava and ashes leaping from nearby volcanoes. Many have had a hand in sculpting the landscape, from wind and water to monks and master stonecutters.
There are panoramic views of the Cappadocia plateau and beyond. The hotel is on the site of an ancient monastery in old Uçhisar village and is made up of ancient buildings, caves and tunnels spread over a slope. The building’s restoration has employed much of the rock and stone to bring a natural, earthy but not roughing-it feel.
You can come here for the sheer romance of it all: the ancient land, the earthy luxury, the sunrises and sunsets, rock doves, nightingales, gardens, vineyards, valleys, but you can also get married at the hotel. Think of the wedding pics.
Rooms: Each is in an individual style although a rocky medieval air permeates many. Room styles include standard rooms, deluxe, suites and splendid suites which have two bedrooms (arguing so soon?) and living spaces with a heart-shaped pool. These rooms are half carved into the rock offering a stone-age experience for primeval lovers. Doubles from €140.
AUBERGE DES ADRETS, FRANCE
Massif de l’Esterel, Frejus, 0033-49-4821182, auberge-adrets.com
What: In the 1700s, this hotel was the secret meeting place for Gaspard de Besse – a sort of French Robin Hood – and his paramour Dame Rose and, while it can't be the only French hotel that has hosted such liaisons, the fact that the hotel mentions it in its literature shows a certain belief in its powers d'amour. The four-star hotel began life as a staging post and for the past 22 years has held weddings that reach from the country house and its terraces out to the lawns around it.
If you wish to leave this love nest on the French Riviera, then a creek-lined coast is 10 minutes away, and Cannes and Nice are within an hour. You are right beside Fréjus and its Roman ruins and Grasse, the city of perfumes, is nearby, as are plenty of pretty hilltop villages.
Even at the hotel you are encouraged to get in touch with the elements, whether that be breakfast on a terrace overlooking the gardens or by an open fire (or in your room).
Rooms: There are 10 rooms decorated with a flourish – curtains swagger and brush against the floor, there are champagne and limestone colours slashed by dark gothic wood elements, such as on mirror surrounds and four-poster beds. Doubles from €166 to €266.