Villa Pitch & Putt in Playa Nueva Romana

On a plot of 641 square metres one of the more generous in the community, Villa Pitch & Putt has the kind of ground beneath it that makes you slow down before you even step inside. Space here is not decorative. It is structural to the way the house lives.

The ground floor is organized around openness and function in equal measure. The living area and kitchen share a single, airy volume, island counter at the centre, the kind that invites people to gather around it rather than just pass through. A separate hot kitchen manages the serious cooking without disrupting the social flow. There is a guest bedroom with its own bathroom, a guest WC, a dedicated office space for those whose work follows them to paradise, a laundry room, and a pool bathroom. Outdoors, the pool terrace extends the home's footprint into the garden, unhurried and private.

Upstairs, the floor belongs to three bedroom suites, each with a private bathroom and walk-in wardrobe, gathered around a family room that is both transition and destination. It is a house that works for four adults travelling together just as naturally as it works for a family making it their own.

Outside its walls, Playa Nueva Romana does the rest. Two kilometres of Caribbean beach, the PGA Ocean's 4 golf complex with 27 holes, the only PGA of America–affiliated course in the country, eleven restaurants, a spa, tennis courts, and the Grand Bahía Príncipe resort immediately adjacent. Grupo Piñero, the Spanish hospitality group behind it all, has been running resort communities for over forty years. The infrastructure shows.

Forty-five minutes from Santo Domingo. Twenty minutes from La Romana airport. An hour from Punta Cana. Close enough to everything, far enough from the noise.