Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island

What the classifiers highlight

Fifty villas share a half-square-mile island with nesting hawksbill turtles, kept back from the sand for the turtles, each shaped in plan like a turtle shell. Every villa has its own infinity pool, an outdoor shower and a locally stocked minibar, Forbes notes, and a 2.5-megawatt solar farm covers 95 percent of the resort's power, the Seychelles' first Five-Star hotel.