Top Five Summer Beach Parties by Angela Moore

Party in Palma at the super-hip Puro Urban Oasis . The hotel is cool, minimalist and designer with splashes of Asian-Moroccan colour and chic. The associated beach club, Puro Beach, is the place to be in Palma for cocktails by the sea and DJ sunsets.

The Bodrum Peninsula is Turkey’s answer to St Tropez; Göltürkbükü is a great mix of pretty fishing village and super-chic beach hangout. By day, pontoons on the sea are sun decks; by night they transform into beach bars and restaurants. The only place to stay is at the hyper-white, terribly sexy EV Turkbuku .

On Mykonos, party on Paradise Beach by day and in starry bar-clubs like Caprice and Remezzo by night. Stay at the whitewashed cubist Mykonos Blu , just far enough outside the Old Town to be a retreat.

Take advantage of the two-dollar pound and party in Miami, which seems to get cooler every year. Salsa at Club Mystique or La Covacha; stay at The Shore Club – it’s worth it for the lychee Martinis at the hotel’s branch of Nobu and the gorgeousness of the waitresses at the Sky Club.

In Cape Town, it’s Second Beach at Clifton by day and club nights at Rhodes House and Marco’s by night. Stay at Kensington Place , consistently named one of Cape Town’s best hotels by Tatler, Conde Nast Traveller et al.