Sophisticated Villa in the most Exclusive Resort, just steps to the beach

My wife and I just returned from this villa and have so many wonderful things to say about our week there that we don’t know where to start. I guess a good place would be a comment made to us by one of the full time residents of the development. He said the safety and security are outstanding. I agree. This was our second time there and we have never felt unsafe for a second.
We arrived in early October. Stayed a week each time. Both times the Weather Channel and other weather prognosticators erroneously predicted daily thunderstorms. It rained once for 5 minutes last year and once for a couple of hours in the early morning this year. Our conclusion, you really have to be unlucky to not have ideal weather.
As for the home itself, photos DO NOT DO JUSTICE. Wonderful and spacious. Great for group gatherings, and yet, if you desire, you can find complete privacy.
In the mornings, a staff member (Lilly) is at your service. Although she does not speak English, we had no trouble communicating using our high school Spanish.
I highly recommend renting a car so you can take your pick as to what you want to do. Beach, pool, snorkel, diving, kite surfing, wind surfing, or just plain surfing. There is an excellent dive shop in Sosua and the surf waits for you in Cabarete. There are some terrific beaches to visit and sites to see. And even though there is a fantastic restaurant right on the grounds, there are some terrific places to eat. Ask for a list from the owners. And be sure to hire Lilly’s husband Johnny to cook a meal for you. It will most assuredly be muy delicioso.
If you stay put, this magnificent home sports a great pool. And just steps away are 2 more community pools (which we had to ourselves almost always), a small very private beach, and the club restaurant. Our favorite thing was to relax on the chaise lounges near the beach that overlook the ocean, reading or napping. I can go on and on. But I’ll just repeat what Arnold said in the first Terminator film, “I’ll be back.”

(Having never written one of these things, I'm taking a moment because I WAS SO HAPPY with the decision to come here!)

Magnificent, heaven, gorgeous, tranquil, perfect, sublime... like opening up a magazine to a spread of the most stunning tropical places for the jet-set crowd, with the kind of images that sends one dreaming blessedly and then somehow, inexplicably, falling into the picture. I felt photo-shopped in or beamed in or something, but in any case, totally transported... and boy did I need some R & R.

The house is beautifully decorated with an exquisite combo of elegance and ease (great attention to detail) and has this really great "feel". All floors, staircases and terraces are one long stretch of sand colored marble. Three enormous French doors with a curved iron paisley motif separate the living room from the terrace. The iron work is not incased in glass, so the doors are, for all intents and purposes, completely open and that lovely, warm Caribbean breeze was constantly gently pushing through, even when shut. There is just so much open. Open window, open doors, sky-high ceilings. Light, light, light.

I felt like a princess in my bedroom, sleeping safe and sound with my room’s French doors wide open, listening to the sounds of the ocean and smelling the sweet flowering bushes, only one small step off my terrace.

When I saw the pictures on the site, I thought, "nice, beautiful". The experience is 100 times better.

The private pool was long enough for laps, with a mini wall with lavender flowers spilling down. I also swam in the pool with waterfalls about 100 steps away (there is also “smaller” pool lined with a kind of black lava, gravel bottom). Every day I swam in any one of the ocean's coves, kind of contained right until they open up to the white-capped ocean. Water was not cold! (Can't stand that.)

There is a restaurant on the water’s edge with the whole back wall partial glass/partially open, so it feels like you’re kind of on top of the water as you eat. Terrific food. Recommend eating there.

Lili the maid was SPECTACULAR and served up daily fresh fruit (among other things) all from the island, some of which I had never eaten before. She was a great help: food, laundry, whatever. Just an absolute angel. (Her husband Johny is a chef and cooked up an unforgettable meal for us one night - REALLY recommend doing this as well! What a night.)

I felt so pampered, so happy, so unbelievably at peace and well rested. In a word: GO!

We had a wonderful time! Lily was so kind and helpful we didn't have to lift a finger! She made us coffee and a wonderful Dominican breakfast every day! The house is marvelous! It is all open-air providing beautiful, refreshing breezes as the wind changes. The views were fantastic! The house was very clean and it felt like home. It was truly the best Christmas vacation that my family ever had. It exceeded our expectations. WE LOVE D.R.!