Casa Cana

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.

Walk through the thatched gatehouse and the compound opens out around the pool. Casa Cana is set up for a multi-generation group who want a long active week on the resort. The villa sits in Punta Aguila on a generous inland plot, with the back lawn looking out on a fairway and the games-room glass wall facing the same view. Eight bedrooms across two wings sleep up to sixteen, with an included cook handling all the meals.

Someone's on the Pilates reformer before breakfast. Someone else is in the golf simulator working on their swing while the group sorts out tee times. Loungers around the pool fill up by midday. Nothing has to share a slot here — there's enough on the property that the group can pull in different directions at the same hour. The covered thatched pavilion at the pool's edge is where the group settles for late-afternoon drinks, and by sundown the lanterns come on along the deck and everyone gathers at the long outdoor table beside the pool.