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Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort

• World's Best Winner
• T+L 500 Winner

COST: $$$$

Classically posh guest rooms and top-notch service in two towers facing the Gulf of Mexico. There's big-deal golf here, plus a gorgeous beach. The Nature's Wonders program, for all ages, has nine aquariums, a butterfly garden, naturalist-led outings, and a lab with microscopes—just right for budding marine biologists.

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From Travel + Leisure , JUN 2003

The old Ritz is definitely the alpha dog. It has the spa and the beach—but this Ritz has Tiburón, an esteemed golf course designed by Greg Norman. In a novel arrangement, when you register in one hotel, you're registered in the other, and everybody shuttles between the two. You can eat pasta to classical guitar at Lemonia, the lovely Tuscan restaurant here, then have a nightcap and a fox-trot at the Ritz Club at the old hotel. You can swim...MORE>>

– Stephen Drucker Lush Life

Last updated January 2008