Punta Aguila 22

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.

At Villa Farallon the cliff falls away on three sides, the Caribbean fifty feet below the lawn. Ten bedrooms sleep twenty-four across a main villa and a guest annex with its own secondary pool, with an included cook handling all the meals. The fit: a family reunion of twenty-four under one roof, a private buyout for a milestone week, or a friend group of grownups who came for the highest tier of the resort.

Arrival is through a glass-and-steel atrium built around a natural coral rock formation — the cliff itself runs into the architecture. The main pool drops to a horizon edge where the water meets the sky. The primary suite's outdoor jacuzzi sits on a teak deck with the same view. Inside, the cinema, the billiard room, the piano lounge, and the gym fill the indoor hours, with the living wall bar running floor to ceiling in tropical planting. By sundown the fire pit at the tip of the promontory is the sunset spot, ocean on three sides.

Villa Farallon sits on Punta Águila, the westernmost cliff position at Casa de Campo. Teeth of the Dog — ranked the Caribbean's top course by the World Golf Awards — is a short cart ride for the round, with The Links a short drive the other way. Minitas Beach is a short cart ride for the day on resort sand. Altos de Chavón is a longer drive up the cliff above the river for the evening. Book Villa Farallon when the trip is the cliff and the resort-within-a-resort, not a beachfront villa where the next plot is the next plot.