Tour Operator Wigmore Holidays and Travel (020 7836 4999, www.aspectsoftunisia.co.uk) specialises in tailor-made trips to Tunisia, including stays at all the hotels mentioned in this article.

All the hotels mentioned here can be booked as part of a package including flights, transfers and the option of a private guide and driver through Wigmore Holidays (020 7836 4999, www.aspectsoftunisia.co.uk).

Neither should be a problem at the hotels mentioned here, but it's always worth inquiring before you book.

I have stayed at the Ritz for over 30 years, and for Spanish standards it is wonderful, but does not, unfortunately, reach the wonderful silent world of the hotels mentioned above.

Caribtours (020 7751 0660,www.caribtours.co.uk) and Virgin Holidays (0870 220 2788, www.virginholidays.co.uk) between them offer packages to all the hotels mentioned below, except those on Guyana and Trinidad.

Both the Lu Song Yuan and Hao Yuan are perfectly comfortable, and have far more character than the Western-managed hotels mentioned above.

Sophisticated international cuisine is a rarity, other than in the larger hotels mentioned above.

The company can book all the hotels mentioned above.

He made private inquiries at the hotel mentioned in Pete's telegram, but learned that the Fogers had gone on.

Of course being listed in LP can make any hotel a potential target so I wouldn't say that any other hotels mentioned in LP are any safer.