Where do billionaires go on holiday? How Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook and Virgin Group’s Richard Branson spend summers on yachts and in luxury mansions

  • Summer travels look a little different for the US’ billionaire executives: some own entire islands in Hawaii or the Caribbean, while others visit lavish holiday properties
  • Bezos and Lauren Sánchez bought a US$78 million home on Maui, while Zuckerberg surfs the waves of Kauai when he’s not in San Francisco running Facebook

Where do billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and Tim Cook go on holiday? Photos: @zuck/Instagram, AP, Space Symposium, Reuters, @tim_cook/Twitter
Summer is nearly here, which means it’s prime holiday season! But for the wealthy and powerful, holidays look a little different.

Take Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, for instance: he spends time surfing near his nearly 607 hectares (1,500 acres) in Hawaii and at his super-private retreat on Lake Tahoe. Or there’s Tim Cook, Apple’s billionaire CEO, who spends his time away from running the iPhone-maker exploring national parks.

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