Casa Adri

All guests must register with the Casa de Campo Concierge office, and for a small daily fee ($30 per adult per night & $15 per child per night), are granted access to resort areas and amenities. Casa de Campo Resort facilities and amenities include golf courses ($), the fitness centre ($), racquet center ($), restaurants ($) and bars ($). Contact Rental Escapes for more information about pricing.

Take the cart from Casa Adri to the Racquet Center and the courts are a few minutes up the lane. Four bedrooms sleep eight in a two-story Barranca villa, with an included cook handling all the meals. The fit: a tennis week with partners along, a family who wants the racquet base and a real pool, or two couples on a long weekend who came for Barranca's quiet hillside over the noisier sea-facing villas.

After tennis, the rinse is at the walled courtyard pool off the primary suite — coral-rock walls all around, the rest of the villa out of sight. The main pool runs along the back terrace under tall palms, with a pergola at one end for lunch in the shade. The double-height great room holds the afternoon when the sun gets high, beaded chandeliers cascading overhead and the back wall open to the garden. By sundown the long table runs along the pool for dinner outside.

Las Canas is the quiet hillside neighbourhood of the resort, set back from the sea. The Racquet Center is the closest amenity, a short cart ride from the door with courts, the lessons calendar, and the pro shop at the same address. Teeth of the Dog — ranked the Caribbean's top course by the World Golf Awards — is a short drive across the resort for the days the racquet stays in the bag. Minitas Beach Club is a short ride the other way for the beach day. Book Casa Adri when the trip is built around tennis and a quiet hillside, not a sea-facing villa where the courts are a daily drive.