Villa Marfil

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.

Let the kids run the length of the lawn while the adults keep their drinks on the terrace. Villa Marfil is built for the family, or the two families, that want everyone in one place without anyone on top of each other. It sits in Los Lagos, a quiet residential pocket close enough to Minitas that you can walk down to the sand with towels under your arms. Six bedrooms sleep twelve on a single level, with an included cook handling all the meals.

The lawn is the main event — wide and flat, ringed by palms, so it stays private even with the whole group outside at once. One of you swims laps in the long pool while the rest move loungers into the sun. The covered terrace runs the back of the house, deep enough that some of you lounge in the shade while others set up lunch at the far end. Inside, the great room opens straight through to the garden, so no one is stuck choosing between indoors and out. By evening the long table outside is set for all twelve, the garden quiet behind the hedge.

Minitas Beach is close enough to reach on foot when you want the sand and the water sports, and the shops and restaurants at Altos de Chavón are a short cart ride when the group wants a night out. Back at the villa, everything is on one level, easy for grandparents and toddlers alike, and the meals are handled, so the cooking never falls to one person. Villa Marfil is the one to book when three generations are traveling together and everyone wants their own room but the same lawn.