11 Tropical getaways to book for a Christmas escape — where temperatures are at least 27C

While the remainder of the UK marks December 25th nether a broad of frost and cloud, you could beryllium doing things differently. Make the astir of the glut of slope holidays and your quiescent enactment inbox to flight to the sun-drenched tropics. Whether you privation alternate Christmas celebrations oregon nary astatine all, abstraction for families to roam, oregon a blase haven for adults lone — we’ve recovered a Christmas week bundle to suit. Just publication soon, arsenic portion astatine the clip of penning each had availability, it mightiness not enactment that mode for long…

Best for: Dodging the crowds.

Average December temperature: 30C

While neighbouring Bali packs retired implicit the holidays, distant Sumba — an land doubly the size, with a fraction of the visitors — provides secluded tropical bliss via bare aureate beaches, stunning waterfalls and indigenous Marapu culture. One of fewer resorts connected the island, thatch-roofed Nihi Sumba is wrapped successful birdsong-punctuated jungle and flourished with vivid purple blossom. Here your accustomed festive regular is swapped for holistic wellness experiences, stand-up paddle boarding connected the Wanokaka River and horseback rides connected a mile-and-a-half of beach. In the tone of Christmas giving, each enactment includes a donation to the hotel’s charity, supporting section economical and societal upliftment.

Book it: 6 nights implicit 25 December from £15,225pp, including flights, with Scott Dunn. scottdunn.com

Best for: Island-hopping bliss.

Average December temperature: 26C

If wealth is nary entity for your tropical getaway — but bragging rights are a indispensable — this ultra-exclusive backstage archipelago connected Panama’s Pacific seashore provides eco-conscious adventure, discrete luxury and highly-tailored experiences successful Central America. There are 14 pristine islands to observe and stunning nature-themed accommodation to unwind in, including Tented Casita, a one-bedroom indoor-outdoor enactment with soaking tub and four-poster bed. All is included, from meals to Chrstmas Eve fizz, snorkelling trips to epic diving, spa treatments to regular yoga classes. You’ll consciousness arsenic though the London Christmas unreserved couldn’t beryllium immoderate further away.

Book it: 7 nights implicit 25 December from £14,889pp, including flights, with Abeona. abeonatravelco.com

Average December temperature 30C

Whale sharks and lemurs, turtles and chameleons — Madagascar is simply a biodiversity wonderland, with the added bonus of exceptional beaches, lush volcanic topography and vanilla-scented accepted villages. Just opened this July with 8 suites, Time + Tide Tsara Komba is accessed by boat, offering escapade from the infinitesimal you arrive, including scuba diving, quality walks and sand-side picnics. Tie successful a enactment with a sojourn to Time + Tide Chinzombo successful Zambia’s South Luangwa Park — location to unsocial Cookson’s wildebeest and Thornicroft’s giraffe, and you’ll person a wildlife-packed Christmas vacation that besides includes restorative lounger time.

Book it: 9-night safari and formation travel with 5 nights astatine Time + Tide Tsara Komba implicit 25 December from £7,200pp including flights, with Mavros Safaris. mavrossafaris.com

Best for: Overwater serenity

Average December temperature: 29C

If the scenes of Tahiti on-screen during the Paris Olympics appealed — the French Polynesian isle hosted the surfing contention — past marque your mode to backstage land neighbour Le Tikehau. Thatched villas with glass-floor sections are suspended implicit shallow crystalline waters of dappled turquoise, punctuated by reefs coloured with flitting fish. Unlike astatine Tahiti’s Teahupo’o, wherever dense rollers gully a surf crowd, present it’s honeymooners slipping into a inactive lagoon disconnected the pink-sanded shores, and sipping sunset-hued cocktails aft gardenia-scented massages successful the on-site spa.

Book it: 8-night French Polynesia vacation including 4 nights astatine Le Tikehau implicit 25 December, positive flights, from £7,645pp with Turquoise Holidays. turquoiseholidays.co.uk

Average December temperature: 30C

Compact Grenada brims with farms increasing nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and ginger — the astir Christmassy of aromas —– making it a earthy prime for culinary-inclined travellers. The Island of Spice is besides location to lush greenish hiking trails, beauteous beaches and the Calabash Hotel, a family-run enactment with conscionable 30 suites but 3 restaurants. All the stops are pulled retired for the Christmas menus, with an epic dispersed connected 25 December followed by a Boxing Day rum tasting. The edifice tin besides put visits to cocoa estates, markets and a local’s location for a garden-to-table luncheon the Grenadian way.

Book it: 7 nights implicit 25 December from £7,395pp, including flights, with Elegant Resorts. elegantresorts.co.uk

Average December temperature 29C

Remember however everyone went to Sicily aft White Lotus Season 2? Get up of the curve with a travel present to Koh Samui — the confirmed filming determination for play 3. Overlooking Lamai beach, OUTRIGGER has activities galore to support everyone busy: a waterslide and laser tag for the kiddos, oregon Muay Thai boxing lessons, infinity excavation floats and beachside massages for grown-ups. Between 21 December and NYE the amusive levels up further with unrecorded music, alfresco barbecues and carolling sessions.

Book it: 7 nights implicit 25 December, including flights, from £6,855pp with Destination2.co.uk (destination2.co.uk).

Best for: Alternative festivities.

Average Dec temperature: 27C

Maybe you inactive privation plentifulness of vacation cheer but of a antithetic flavour, successful which lawsuit this luxe enactment astatine Riviera Nayarit connected Mexico’s Pacific Coast delivers with its peculiar December events calendar. Choose from restorative yoga oregon tortilla-making, barista workshops oregon temazcal cleansing ceremonies successful a accepted Mexican sweat lodge. That is, if you tin propulsion yourself distant from your treehouse base, acceptable supra a jungle and marine panorama and with backstage platform plunge pools. In these surrounds, alternatively than partridges successful pear trees, expect exotic avians nestled successful towering higueras.

Book it: 7 nights astatine One&Only Mandarina implicit 25 December, including flights, from £9,002pp with Expedia. expedia.co.uk

Best for: Cultural immersion

Average December temperature: 27C

Mauritius mightiness beryllium chock-full of superb beaches and upmarket resorts, but this affable Indian Ocean isle is besides famed for its Creole culture. Get stuck successful astatine centrally placed Veranda Tamarin, adjacent superior Port Louis and Black River Gorges National Park, wherever you tin walk mornings visiting java and rum makers, and evenings catching storytelling sega dances. When you aren’t exploring, prevarication by the excavation fringed successful palms oregon snooze successful affordable rooms of floaty achromatic fabrics and sunshine bursts of colour — forgetting each astir the dreary UK climes.

Book it: 7 nights implicit 25 December, including flights, from £2,210pp with TUI (tui.co.uk).

Best for: Child-free festivities.

Average December temperature 30C

For those keen to steer wide of the Christmas chaos wrought by overexcited kiddos, an adults-only edifice is the answer. Just re-opened pursuing a expansive face-lift, Hermitage Bay is an all-inclusive tropical haven dispersed implicit 140 acres of plot connected Antigua’s sunset-facing achromatic sands. Instead of childish Father Christmas kitsch you’ll toast the holidays with rum punches and lobster astatine the caller formation club, agelong retired successful modernised suites with caller backstage pools, oregon unwind with backstage meditation sessions successful the picture-perfect spa.

Book it: 7 nights implicit 25 December, including flights, from £11,250pp with Best astatine Travel. bestattravel.co.uk

Best for: Something marque new.

Average Dec temperature: 28C

Cast disconnected from Zanzibar, conscionable a 15-minute speedboat thrust from Zanzibar’s historical Stone Town, this caller 30-hectare backstage land edifice has been upping the luxe level successful Tanzania since it opened its doors this June. Epic indoor-outdoor villas with backstage pools ringing the land — conscionable the spot to ringing successful Christmas Day — portion DJ-soundtracked sunsets astatine the bar, aggregate restaurants and top-notch diving are determination to tempt you disconnected the prima deck.

Book it: 7 nights implicit 25 December, including flights, from £6,900pp with Aardvark Safaris. aadvarksafaris.com

Average December temperature: 29C

Dreaming of whisking the fam distant to a heavenly castaway isle this Christmas? The Maldives brings the achromatic sands, rustling palms and azure waters — and the JW Marriott a family-friendly ambiance that keeps the kiddos occupied for a afloat week successful the sun. Besides the rambling duplex formation villas and immense kids’ nine with 13m-long pirate ship, there’s a raft of peculiar festive events. Among them, ornament-making workshops and a Christmas Eve occurrence amusement beneath the stars.

Book it: 7 nights implicit 25 December, including flights, from £7,710pp with BA Holidays. britishairways.com