Playa Grande Beach Club is a low-key refuge more akin to visiting a private residential compound than checking into a hotel. Guests often know each other or get to over cocktails.

The small resort is a place for falling off the map—private, secluded and quiet, a place for high-profile guests to be treated like everyone else, because everyone who makes it in is a VIP here.

Location and History. Secreted away on the sweeping shores of Playa Grande, a Crusoe-inspired backdrop with a striking white sand beach backed up to rainforest remnants, this rustic-chic escape is ...

Amanera Resort in Playa Grande, Dominican Republic, was named to GOLF's list of the Top 100 Golf Resorts in the World. Learn more here.

Photo by Hart Howerton/Courtesy Playa Grande Beach Club. I'd only visited the Dominican Republic twice, but that’s all it took for me to swear off an entire country. How could I possibly hate a ...

For romantic one-percenters Only open since November, the nine-guest room Playa Grande Beach Club on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic is the brainchild of money manager Boykin Curry and… ...

FLAMINGO, Guanacaste — People often ask me where I live, and I say, “I mostly live in my car.” People say, “You have a camper?” I say, “No, I live in hotels, tear out the walls, I have accountants pay ...