Leisure and Adventure: Summer at ENAJA
Parents can, admittedly, relax in the jets as the kids practice their swimming strokes, or the other way around. There are chairs and cushions to lounge by the pool that will encourage long afternoons with a good book or low-level conversation. When you need a change of venue, the turquoise sea of Budoni is a mere 5 minutes away; for younger children, the shallows are exceptionally forgiving and for older kids, the chance to snorkel in warm water for hours is immeasurable.
Beyond the pool, the ENAJA team can communicate and book various activities for guests to get the taste of what summer in Sardinia is to offer. If your family is more active, you can book a tennis match or a boat trip along the coastline to spend the day on the water. The vast selection of snorkelling outings will allow you to discover and experience an underwater world with an abundance of marine life living off the colourful reefs of Sardinia and if you feel like exploring further inland, a short drive will direct you to shepherds’ farms that will provide an accurate look at local life in Sardinia.
Immersing into the local life and culture is fundamentally connected to the ENAJA experience – whether that is learning how to cook pasta in a traditional cooking class, visiting nearby villages during a summer festival in Italy, or simply talking with the locals while they sell their wares at Budoni’s weekly market. For kids, this type of experience is equal parts fun and informative, inspiring a desire to discover the unknown: natural shadows and heritage. For adults, it is a chance to view the island with the eyes of its locals, and experience wonder again. Downstairs, the family may be gathered talking about their day’s adventures, fueled by warm summer breezes floating in the scent of helichrysum through the estate, perhaps for gelati in town, or a glass of Cannonau wine beneath a dark evening sky.
This is charming hospitality and family roots.
ENAJA Luxury Retreat offers authentic hospitality manifest in its shape and form. It is not commercial. It is not a resort operation remotely run, it is the product of a family of many generations connected to the land; the founder, Pasquale Succu, observes that whichever family holiday operator of choice, ENAJA is grounded in family tradition, and genuine welcome – everything is considered in effort and purpose, which comes as care and passion.
This philosophy has evolved into warm and friendly service. Friendly staff keen to assist – asking ‘what is the best child-friendly beach’; booking babysitting so parents can enjoy time alone, although they know parents need their alone time as a family, too. The experience equally reflects boutique hotel stay, and the warm embrace of your friend’s estate at the seaside.
Guests comment frequently about the effort put into every detail, waiting in the kitchen is a basket with land and sea fruits, a lovingly landscaped garden where every jasmine and bougainvillea is flourishing just for you, and a personal greeting from the owners with where to find the best sunset. In an increasing number of travellers looking for genuine personal connections and authenticity, ENAJA represents both, with quiet confidence. Families do not experience ENAJA through the lens of customers or guests here. They experience it simply as being welcomed into a Sardinian family.
Summer 2025 Memories for Life Forever
In an increasingly fragmented leisure travel landscape, that is privitised and characterised by personalisation, ENAJA represents both, and I suspect, more. It represents an amazing opportunity for families in 2025 to break away from routine, rediscover each other with nature in beautiful surroundings, experience comfort and style, and connect and reclaim relationships with ecology. Travel planners are noticing multigenerational family travel continuing to gain traction, or villa holidays, and ENAJA is not merely indicative of this cultural furnishing, it is the idealised experience.
Here, a vacation is transcended in meaning from mere act of doing a holiday: it is a communal story being narrated under the Sardinian sun. From toddlers digging into an abundance of sand at Budoni beach, to grandparents taking a mindful moment amongst the green of the gardens, all family members find their space, and their pleasure.
As summer is starting to draw to a close, parents depart feeling rejuvenated, children return renewed, curious and confident, and all families depart with their piece of Sardinia in their hearts. ENAJA Luxury Retreat is not only place to stay. It is a place to belong, and leave with experiences that will last forever – where nature, freedom and togetherness can be experienced in harmony.
As Frances Hodgson Burnett so aptly wrote: “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” And at ENAJA, in the summer of 2025, that garden is alive.
