There are 2 18-hole golf courses, 2 polo fields and 150 polo
ponies, 13 tennis courts, 8 swimming pools, a small gymnasium
with saunas and massage, 9 restaurants, a fleet of fishing and
sailing boats, a skeet-shooting range, a discotheque, an art
colony, a small museum, a bookstore and several thousand acres
of peace and quiet.  The setting for all this is the Casa de
Campo resort in the Dominican Republic. What is probably the
biggest and most varied vacation place in the Caribbean is,
above all, a place of beauty and relaxation where the service is
cheerful and efficient, the food is better than average and the
pace of life is whatever you make it.  The resort is set on
7,000 acres of gently rolling coastal land a little more than an
hour from the international airport in Santo Domingo. The red
tile roofs and stucco walls of the casitas and villas give Casa
de Campo a Latin look and the mostly sunny and mild days are
unmistakably island tropical.  But sense of place seems to blur
inside the resort compound.