Concierge.com's insider take:

It's impossible to miss this 365-room luxury resort on Seven Mile Beach with a seven-story tower on the sea side and a lower, larger block of bedrooms and restaurants inland on West Bay Road, bridged by a walk-through art gallery. The best views and most convenient beach access are from the ocean-side rooms, which comprise about half of the hotel inventory. All rooms are decorated in subdued pastel-color schemes and have private balconies, large marble-lined bathrooms with separate showers and bathtubs, and Wi-Fi access. A free-form swimming pool, the second-largest on the island, segues into a broad band of Seven Mile Beach where guests can lounge in canopied beach chairs, cabanas, or daybeds, check out complimentary sea kayaks, paddleboards, and snorkel gear, or rent a Hobie Cat sailboat. The concierge can easily book a sailing or diving excursion for you, but there are enough activities on campus that there's really no need to leave the property: two pools and a hopping beach bar, a state-of-the-art fitness center, Silver Rain spa, a nine-hole golf course designed by Greg Norman, and a tennis complex conceived by Nick Bollettieri. Among the several resort restaurants, the sushi purveyor Taikun and Blue by Eric Ripert are the best. The centerpiece of the children's program is Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ambassadors of the Environment, an eco-adventure initiative with activities such as snorkeling Cayman's shipwrecks, kayaking a mangrove forest, stargazing, and underwater photography.—Christopher Cox