Sixty islands, fifty of them uninhabited, and a turquoise corridor called Sir Francis Drake Channel. The British Virgin Islands move at the pace of the tide. Liv&Travel curates BVI luxury holidays for those who want to wake on a different beach each morning. The Baths on Virgin Gorda, giant granite boulders forming grotto pools where sunlight filters through cracks in the stone. You climb down ladders and wade through seawater to find your own private alcove. For a BVI luxury sailing holiday, we charter a crewed catamaran with a captain and a chef. You decide the route.

Norman Island for pirate caves, Jost Van Dyke for Soggy Dollar’s Painkillers, Anegada for spiny lobster on a reef edge. The skipper knows which anchorages shelter from the wind. The chef knows your favourite dish by the second night. For a BVI luxury private island experience, Necker Island or Guana Island or Peter Island, your own stretch of sand with no footprints but yours. A BVI luxury wellness retreat at Oil Nut Bay on Virgin Gorda, where hilltop suites face the Atlantic and sunrise yoga begins before the heat. The best time is dry season, December to April, with steady trade winds and calm seas. Liv&Travel transforms the BVI into more than a sailing trip; it becomes a sense of freedom measured in knots and anchor drops.