Punta Cana Resort & Club

This exclusive new enclave within the Puntacana Resort & Club complex creates the home away from home that you wished you lived in. The 50 guest suites are contained within 15 sunny villas resembling small houses in a genteel development (with your own golf cart parked right outside).

Even the smallest one-bedroom suite is vast, at 1,127 square feet. Decorated by Oscar de la Renta (who owns a home in Punta Cana) with rattan furniture and orange and white prints, the suites' Caribbean-cool interiors are easy on the eyes. French doors open onto a terrace that faces either a green lawn and the ocean beyond or the P. B. Dye–designed golf course.

The crackerjack staff include a cheerful villa manager who will do practically anything you ask, as well as valets who whisk you through customs at the airport. Meals are memorable, whether at the Latin-Asian Bamboo, the closest restaurant, or on your own breezy terrace. The Six Senses Spa is included among the 2007 Conde Nast Hot List Spas.