Located on the east end of Grand Cayman Island, this laid-back, family-friendly resort is far removed from cruise-ship traffic and/or the chaos of Seven Mile Beach (the Caymans' tourist hot spot). It has the longest strip of beach on the island, with the pleasing effect that all of its 150-plus guest accommodations are smack-dab on the beachfront. They're also all suites, and the low-rise...

A clifftop hideaway for rock stars, lovers, and iconoclasts on a West Indies sabbatical, this is one of Negril's best-kept secrets. It's the opposite of every Jamaican all-inclusive stereotype, to the point where most people don't even realize it is one. With only 11 guest accommodations and no entertainment staff and hardly any set time for meals, The Caves feels more like "visiting your rich...

Set in the former ancestral home of Fanny Nisbet (widowed early, she went on to wed famed English seafarer Lord Admiral Nelson), this plantation inn is a landmark that's managed to adapt very well to the modern age. It's the only beachfront historic inn on Nevis, as most of the plantation homes that would later turn to plantation inns were built up in the mountains, long before the days of...

This adults-only property is the epitome of the "new" Dominican Republic—it's a secluded and self-contained haven set on a private beach, in a luxury resort area that didn't even exist ten years ago. With property here going for much less than it does in longtime luxury destinations like Anguilla or St. Lucia, the DR is known as a place where you can enjoy a slice of luxury for less. And...

A labor of love built by a husband-and-wife team over the course of several decades, this is a local landmark with which you might fall in love—and you won't be alone. Everything is top-notch, from the food to the facilities, and the all-inclusive rate encompasses activities that usually carry an extra charge—most notably, scuba diving, deep-sea fishing, and water-skiing. Service is...

Families who like to stay active on their all-inclusive beach vacation should look no further than Beaches Turks & Caicos. This is a tropical, oceanfront property that easily caters to all age groups. Daily activity options for kids are almost dizzying, with choices including hitting the humongous water park, shooting hoops, making tie-dye shirts at the Kids Camps, learning to scuba dive, or...

It may be on a small island adrift in the sparkling Caribbean, but this resort draws its influences from various corners of the world: The owners are from Bermuda, the Saltillo floor tiles are from Spain, and the private transpo (a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow) from the UK. The guests are also multi-national—many are from the UK, some Germany, and others from the U.S. (usually with a prior...

At Franklyn D. Resort & Spa, every visiting family—no matter how old your children—is assigned a Vacation Nanny. That's right: childcare built into the cost of your all-inclusive beach vacation. For parents of young kids, this is a dream come true. Your exclusive Vacation Nanny is on hand not only to baby-sit the kids while Mom and Dad dine alone, go the spa, or play a game of...

The newest resort community in Mexico, Riviera Nayarit was specially designed to offer a quieter, more luxurious experience than Cancun or Puerto Vallarta. In fact, though it's on the Pacific coast and one of its districts is called Nuevo Vallarta, anyone who works in tourism in the area will tell you that the region is "in Nayarit, not Jalisco," as though wishing to distance themselves from...

We would tell you that this is no ordinary ranch, but one of its guests says it better. "My wife and I have been there 22 times now, and in the past several years we've been going twice a year," he announces, "and it deserves all the kudos that I've ever seen it get."

Not only that, but this longtime regular, Peter Furniss of Georgia, stresses that over the years, every aspect of the...