As Islands inspires you to take the ultimate trips on your travel bucket list, we’ve compiled all of our Wish List stories of recent years into one ultimate list of our Top 100 suggestions, each with a link to more editors’ expert advice. And to have some fun, we’ve ranked them from No. 100 (have a Painkiller drink in the BVI) to No. 1 (?). Which trips are on your own wish list?

Drink a Painkiller at the Soggy Dollar Bar, BVI

See all of the Florida Keys

Get a treatment at one of the world’s best island spas`

Sleep under a Socotra tree

Find a surprise in Wales

Play ball like a kid in the Dominican Republic

See Tahiti’s Super Bowl

Paddle board in Hawaii

Sip the world’s most “interesting” coffee in Bali

Stand on a glacier in Iceland

Dine at one of the most romantic tables for two

See the colors of Curacao

Take a picture of Santorini, Greece

Taste the ultimate sushi in Japan

Take your time at the Bishop Museum in Hawaii

to 76. Spot the coolest island animals
Dive with dugongs in the Philippines • Save the lemurs in Madagascar • Witness a crab orgy on Australia’s Christmas Island • Pet the Tasmanian devil (carefully!) in Tasmania • Pose with penguins in the Falklands • Stalk the “spirit bear” on Canada’s islands • Spot an ivory-billed woodpecker in Cuba • Dive with great white sharks off Dyer Island • See a tree kangaroo in Papua New Guinea • Meet Arctic wolves on Ellesmere Island See our photo gallery of these top animal adventures. Credit

Surf Waikiki

to 72. Toast with these iconic island drinks

Ride a mule on Molokai, Hawaii

Cook a Tahitian feast

Get spoiled Down Under at the qualia resort

Climb to the Haleakala Crater on Maui

Live the island life in Bali

to 55. Ride like locals

Soak in the Baths, British Virgin Islands

to 51. Get a thrill and a view

Stay in one of the world’s best island villas

Take a photo of Mount Fuji, Japan

Eat New Zealand raw

Take a romantic getaway to one of the world’s most romantic islands

Dive off Molokini crater in Hawaii

Find adventure in New Zealand

Eat up Oahu

Walk into paradise in Fiji

See real hula in Hawaii

Snorkel with whales in Tonga

Get to Ko Samui, Thailand

Book one of the world’s best island cruises

Stay underwater in the Maldives
Conrad Maldives Resort & Spa**
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Visit the best island beaches

Visit the No. 1 most natural island destination

Take naps, drink wine and eat a ton on St. Lucia

Take the ultimate family vacation

Step foot on One Foot Island in Aitutaki, Cook Islands

See Tahiti beyond the bungalows

Fly over the Na Pali Coast of Kauai, Hawaii

Night dive with mantas off the Big Island, Hawaii
Fair Wind**
fair-wind.com Ty Sawyer

Sail the secret Caribbean

Book a “sanctuary” at Jade Mountain resort on St. Lucia

Stay in an overwater bungalow in the Maldives

Dive at Raja Ampat, Indonesia

Relax on the most stress-free island

Relax on sand in the Seychelles

Stay at the No. 1 room with a view

Make Tahiti your home

Find the secret America

Escape to the coolest jungle

Hop the Caribbean by boat
CYOA Yacht Charters
cyoacharters.com Amory Ross

Experience the culture of Papua New Guinea

Feel the heat on the Big Island of Hawaii

Take a cruise into the secret South Pacific

Move to the USVI

Sleep on the Great Barrier Reef

Live in Hawaii

See the Galapagos

Retire early on Roatan

to 4. Escape to a private island

Live the island life forever

Fall asleep in a faraway hammock
Thongtakian Beach Resort**
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