Le Cheval

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.

Push back the glass wall at Le Cheval and the polo grounds open out from the back garden — match at three. Four bedrooms sleep eight in a two-story modern villa fronting the polo field in El Polo, with an included cook handling all the meals. The fit: a family with kids who'll spend the day between the climbing fort and the pool, two couples on a long weekend, or a friend group who came for the match and the modern villa over the colonial estate.

Mornings start at the picnic table, kids already on the climbing fort. The match is at three. The family pulls chairs to the bottom of the garden, drinks in hand, every guest looking the same direction at once. The pool sits to the side with parasols for the off-match days. By sundown the family eats at the long outdoor table, with festoon lights overhead.

Le Cheval sits in El Polo, beside the Equestrian Center. Teeth of the Dog — ranked the Caribbean's top course by the World Golf Awards — and The Links are a short ride up the road for the round, and Minitas Beach Club is a short ride the other way for the beach day when polo is dark. Altos de Chavón is a short drive up the cliff for the evening above the river. Book Le Cheval when the trip is built around the polo and the family side of the resort, not a sprawling estate where the polo is the side trip.