Villa Alfa

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 in with the kids running ahead and the courtyard pulls them to the center of the house. A wooden plank crosses a reflection pool. Palms grow through the open roof above. Every room opens onto the courtyard. Villa Alfa is built for families who travel together and like the house to do the gathering. It sits on a quiet road in El Ingenio, central to almost everything in the resort: beach, marina, championship courses, polo. The back rooms look out over the La Romana Country Club fairways. Six bedrooms sleep twelve, with an included cook handling all the meals.

Mornings start in different parts of the house. The cook is in the open kitchen pulling breakfast together while the grandparents are out under the covered terrace with drinks. Somebody's already in the hammock strung between two palms on the lawn. By lunch everyone moves to the long dining table outside, where ten or twelve can sit together under tasseled rattan lanterns without having to call ahead. In the afternoon the group splits up: the teenagers take over the blue game room for billiards while the younger kids cycle between the pool and the lawn, and one parent reads on a lounger. By sundown everyone comes back to the same table, the lanterns lit and the pool quiet behind them.