On Turkey’s southwest coast, this village-like hillside resort, complete with an underground spa and a pool, is a staggered arranegement of interlocking villas.

Its hub and heart are the giant decked pontoons that float on the warm Aegean waters. Here, holidaymakers kick back on loungers and order bountiful plates of seafood pasta from adjacent Italian restaurant Paper Moon. If you’re after local bites such as lahmacun, summon a buggy up the hill to Loft Elia for lunch amid boungainvillea and olive trees. As the sun sets, the 360 cocktail bar comes to life, and your dream holiday villa with its vast bed beckons. Expect spacious, minimalist, terrazzo-tiled rooms and an expansive, stone-paved outdoor kitchen, dining and lounge area with far-reaching sea views (because you’ve not to come to Turkey to sit indoors). Describing somewhere on the fertile crescent of the cradle of civilisation as having a ‘bit of a moment’ may sound ludicrous. And yet, Bodrum does seem to be enjoying just that.