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...For a start, the resort has an entire atoll at its disposal. And Shivdasani promises there are “zero mosquitoes. Even in the beach villas....
...The Caribbean islands were one piece of an Epstein property portfolio that included a Palm Beach estate, Manhattan’s largest townhouse and a New Mexico ranch....
...The night wind fretted the palm fronds on the beach. Far out were the depth-charge booms of the barrier reef. Above me was the greatest and original map: a sky full of bright stars....
...Aspirational local brides in bejewelled dresses pose on the promenade, kids scamper and dive and flirt along the rocks below; patrician villas hide in the pines and palms around it....
...White sunbeds and umbrellas line the shore below the raised restaurant, and fill the adjacent platform....
...“My mum was the one who made me conscious about it,” said Sharif LaPalma, a dual Argentine-US citizen, on vacation with high school friends on the beach in Puerto Morelos, just south of Cancún....
...There are crisp cream parasols, olive and palm trees and tasteful beds of sage and hibiscus. The view from my board would have been rather different five years ago....
...Many of the finest nestle around Kapalua Resort, a golf and beach resort on Maui’s north-west shore near Lahaina....
...I stayed at the 18th-century Villa Eldorado, on a bluff above Chiaia beach, in a flat called “La Casa di Elsa”, after Elsa Morante, the 20th century novelist whose seminal Arturo’s Island is set here....
...What: This smart six-bedroom villa has a private pool and access to tennis courts and fitness facilities at the adjoining resort....
...The Datai has doubles from £465, a week in a rainforest villa from £4,130 and a week in a beach villa from £8,260; thedatai.com....
...From €1,525, oneandonlyresorts.com 8 — Greystone, Miami Beach, US Diagonally opposite The Setai and Shore Club in the Miami Beach neighbourhood of Collins Park, Greystone was built in 1939, a classic of...
...Fortunately for its residents, there are more than 250 outlying islands to retreat to — from sparsely populated outcrops to bustling beach resorts....
...“Those who want more going on prefer Miami or Palm Beach [in Florida], even though they might not offer 30-degree days nearly every day of the year like the southern Caribbean.”...
...The 67 whitewashed guest villas — inexplicably referred to as “penthouses” — have a South Beach aesthetic, styled by the Singaporean designer Miaja....
...Instead of the turquoise seas and pristine beach that Don Gatti, a school administrator on vacation from California, anticipated when he arrived in Mexico’s Playa del Carmen, the water is brown and a carpet...
...backed by a thick fringe of palms and takamaka trees....
...I rented a scooter and set off along the shore road beneath tilting palm trees, past the beach where you can rent hammocks by the hour, past monks with their alms bowls, past monkeys grooming one another...
...ranging from Martin Amis to Shakira have spent their vacations....
...Much of the material is authentic and local. The stone is from the mountains; date-palm leafstalks fashion the gates. Each villa has its own little compound so the resort never seemed crowded....
...Cabot Links is also a resort with oceanfront homes for sale. Four-bedroom beach cottages — that sit between Inverness beach and the seventh hole — have floor-to-ceiling windows and sensational views....
...Donald Trump and the US billionaire crowd prefer Palm Beach. For the Chinese Communist party, there’s Beidaihe, a moon-shaped beach on the shores of the Bohai Sea east of Beijing....
...Mr Ross and Mr Fanjul have never done business together. But they have known each other for years, largely through the New York and Palm Beach society circuits....
...Opened this month, Naïa Resort and Spa is Belize’s first destination spa resort, an attractive ensemble of 35 white villas with a mile-long beach and six wooden treatment suites set amid tropical gardens...
...He says property in prime areas along the coastline, such as Wailea and Makena on the southern shores and Kapalua, a resort development to the north of the island, carry the highest price tags and rank among...
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