Best friends Alison Wright & Sheila Sager first visited Costa Rica on a trekking holiday and instantly fell in love with the country. Now, 20 years later, with their kids all grown up, they've decided to go halves on a holiday home where they can escape the British winters.

Danni Menzies shows them five fantastic homes for their £300,000 joint budget, but will any of them capture the magic of their first trip there?

Paul and Maggie Meigh from Northamptonshire have long dreamt of retiring to a warmer climate and are now selling their house in the UK so they can to move to the stunning Portuguese island of Madeira full time.

With a budget of £330,000, Scarlette Douglas shows them five fantastic homes along the island's dramatic south coast.