STEPHEN MANGAN'S RUM-AND-SUN GRENADA

The actor and presenter loves lazy days in the Caribbean a pool leading to the beach, sunset fish tacos and then just another 100 yards to arum shack

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Where is your favourite destination and why? Grenada. I’d never been to the Caribbean before. I just imagined it wouldn’t interest me and I don’t know why I ever thought that because it’s just fantastic. Grenada isn’t as busy as some of the other more touristy islands in the Caribbean. You don’t feel like you’re in the middle of a tourism hotspot.

When was the last time you were there, and who were you with? I was there for four weeks in November which, you know, is not a month I would ever worry about missing in this country. I was working and I can try to pretend it was tough — we did work 12 hours a day, six days a week — but we were in the Caribbean. I’d go back in a shot.

Where do you like to stay there? We stayed at a hotel called Silversands which we renamed The Fortune Hotel for our TV show of the same name, which we were filming there. You walk in, and the first thing you see is a 100m long pool which is ridiculously long for a swimming pool. There are all sorts of fantastic villas with their own pools and I was in an apartment on the third floor. ITV booked out the entire hotel, so there was miles of cabling and whole villas taken over with camera equipment. But it was right by the beach; the long pool finishes, you step out of it and you’re standing on the beach.