ROMANTIC GETAWAYS · FOR TWO
Just the two of you, and the last of the light.
Private sunset sails off Santorini and the Amalfi Coast, catamarans over Mauritian lagoons, champagne on the Tagus. Reviews of the most romantic experiences for couples, in the places made for a honeymoon.
Worth the trip for the sunset alone
Three places made for two.
Some honeymoons are about the resort. The Greek islands, the Amalfi Coast and the Indian Ocean are about the evening on the water: the anchor dropped in a quiet cove, the wine poured as the sky turns, just your boat and the last of the light. These are the ones couples come home talking about.
The Greek Islands
Greece
Nowhere does the sundowner quite like the Aegean. A private boat carries the two of you out from Halkidiki or below the temple at Cape Sounion, drops anchor in a cove for a swim, then pours the wine as the islands turn rose and gold. By the time the lights come on along the shore, it is just your boat, the water and the last of the colour. This is the evening most couples come to Greece for.
- 1 Kassandra: Private Sunset Cruise with Drinks & Swimming
- 2 Athens: Semi Private Sunset Sailing and Gastronomy Cruise
- 3 Cape Sounion Semi- Private Sunset tour
The Amalfi Coast
Italy
The Amalfi Coast was made to be seen from the water. A private sunset cruise pushes off from Sorrento or Positano and tracks the cliffs as the pastel towns light up above you, a bottle of something cold open on deck. You drift past Li Galli and the hidden grottoes the day boats have long since left, with only the sound of the hull and the two of you. A honeymoon postcard that happens to be real.
- 1 Amalfi Coast Private Sunset Cruise
- 2 Etna Private Sunset Tour with Prosecco
- 3 Sorrento: Private Sunset Boat Tour with Music and Aperitif
The Indian Ocean
Mauritius
Some places the colour of the water does the romancing for you. Off Mauritius a private catamaran glides over lagoons so clear the reef shows through, anchoring near Ile aux Aigrettes for a swim before the sky turns. Dinner comes aboard as the sun melts into the ocean and the stars take over. For a couple, it is about as close to having the sea to yourselves as a honeymoon gets.
- 1 Ile aux Aigrettes: Private Sunset Cruise Tour
- 2 Mauritius: Sunset photoshoot (Honeymoon/family shoots)
If you book one thing for two
The one couples rave about more than any other.
Of every romantic experience on the site, this is the one newlyweds come home telling their friends to book.
The ones everyone loves
The Most Popular Romantic Escapes Right Now
Aegean sunset cruises, Amalfi Coast sails, Lisbon champagne evenings, Mauritian lagoon catamarans. The bookings couples are happiest they made.
Start with a country
The most romantic escapes, country by country.
Greece for the island sunsets, Italy for the Amalfi Coast, Croatia for the Adriatic at dusk. Pick where you are honeymooning and we will show you the experiences worth booking there.
Where to begin
Three ways to honeymoon on the water.
Start with the kind of evening you are picturing. Each of these is a region the site covers deeply, and a different shade of golden-hour waiting at the end of it.
Barcelona
The city, the sea and a bottle of cava.
There is a better way to see Barcelona than from the Ramblas: from the deck of a private yacht as the skyline turns gold and the lights flick on along the waterfront. You slip out past the marina with a skipper and a chilled bottle, the two of you and an open horizon, and watch the city you walked all day soften into evening from the water.
See the best Barcelona sunset cruises →Halkidiki
Three green fingers of the Aegean.
Halkidiki reaches into the sea on three long peninsulas, all pine-covered headlands and quiet swimming coves the day-trippers never reach. A private boat from Kassandra carries the two of you out to drop anchor for a swim, then settles in with drinks and meze as the water goes from turquoise to rose. By dark it is just your boat and a sky full of stars.
See the best Halkidiki sunset cruises →Lisbon
Sail the Tagus as the city turns to gold.
Lisbon was built to be seen from its river. A private sailing boat slips out onto the Tagus in the late afternoon, a glass of something sparkling in hand, and tracks the waterfront as the light turns the tiled facades amber and the 25 de Abril bridge lights up overhead. The two of you, the sails up, the whole pink-and-gold city drifting by.
See the best Lisbon sunset sails →Croatia at dusk
The Adriatic, the old walls and the last of the sun.
Croatia’s coast is a string of walled towns and pine-clad islands, and the loveliest hour to see it is the one before dark. A private boat carries the two of you out from Dubrovnik or Split as the stone turns honey-coloured, anchors off a quiet cove for a swim, and pours the wine while the sun drops behind the islands.
- 1 From Fazana: Private sunset dolphin tour
- 2 Dubrovnik: Private Sunset on the Sea Cruise with Wine
- 3 From Split: Private Sunset Boat Tour
By pace
How long do you want to stay out on the water?
An hour under the Dubrovnik walls with a glass in hand. A whole Halkidiki afternoon that drifts into evening. A Mauritian sail from golden hour to a sky full of stars. Pick the one that sounds like your kind of evening.
A short sundowner
Dubrovnik, an hour on the Adriatic.A small private boat slips out under the old-town walls as they turn gold, a glass of wine in hand and the city lighting up behind you. Back on land in time for dinner. The easiest, loveliest way to end a day in port.
A half-day sail
Halkidiki, an afternoon into evening.Out from the harbour to swim off the back of the boat in a quiet cove, then settle in with drinks and meze as the three peninsulas soften to pink. A few unhurried hours that feel like the whole point of the trip.
Golden hour to stars
Mauritius, the long evening on the lagoon.A catamaran across glassy turquoise water, a swim while the light goes amber, dinner aboard as the sun sinks, and the sail home under a sky full of stars. The kind of evening you plan a honeymoon around.
The signature evening
A private boat and a sky that catches fire.
If there is one experience couples come back to time after time, it is the private sunset cruise. Just the two of you and a skipper, out on the water as the colour comes up, a glass poured and the engine off. From a Nile felucca at Luxor to a catamaran off Lanzarote, these are the highest-rated sails on the site, the ones honeymooners book first.
See all 55 romantic experiences →By destination
Pick where you are honeymooning.
Barcelona for the city-and-sea evening. Halkidiki for the quiet Aegean coves. Lisbon for the Tagus at sunset. Mauritius for the turquoise lagoons. Madeira for the Atlantic cliffs. Mallorca for the hidden calas.
More destinations
More corners of the map made for two.
Cape Sounion under the temple at dusk, a Bodrum gulet, the Dubrovnik walls from the Adriatic, the Amalfi cliffs off Positano, a Lanzarote catamaran, the Riviera off Nice. The rest of the map, ready when you are.
Three ways to spend the evening
Pick the sunset, build the night around it.
Sundown under the temple at Cape Sounion, drinks along the Dubrovnik walls, a catamaran into the dark off Mauritius. Three destinations, three very different ways to watch the day end.
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