Even when picking up the tab ourselves, we share the belief that money spent shopping for shoes and scouring consignment stores for designer labels far outweighs the value of an ocean view or a private room.

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Barths, Sabine Masseglia, Director of Sales, Marketing, and Communications, has a couple that has taken room 22, an ocean-view pool suite, every year at the same time since 1991.

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In every ocean-facing room are large windows showcasing the view, which the couple enhanced by raising their lawn by 4 feet, so that the grass and the sea appear to touch in the distance and cars driving by disappear.

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