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Readers of Conde Nast just chose The Spa at Stein Erickson Lodge as the numero uno spa in the country. That’s no big surprise to Katherine Heigl who married musician Josh Kelley there in 2007. Or to the lucky few who score rooms there during the Sundance Film Festival. During those ten high-octane days, it’s booked years ahead by the elite and the lucky.

Nestled mid-mountain at Silver Lake Village at the Deer Valley Resort, this snazzy five-star, five-diamond property with its 145 fireplaces pampers during the winter with ski butlers carrying guests’ skis and pastry chefs welcoming guests with handcrafted Belgian and French chocolate.

But it’s even better in the summer because a) rates are much lower and b) you can actually recognize any stars you happen to bump into. During the winter, they’re in cognito hidden their ski goggles and warm hats.

As for that spa that just pulled down the top spot, it provides head-to-toe pampering in 20,000-square feet of lush. There’s a calming rain bar, Vichy showers, couples’ massages and an ashiatsu massage where your masseuse walks upon and down your body.

Click here for more info on this amazing resort near Park City, Utah.

Tickets go on sale next week for Paul McCartney’s first ever Yankee Stadium concert. No word yet on where he’ll hang pre-concert, but we do know his favorite place to spend the Christmas holidays: Conrad Maldives Rangali Island.

Maldives, a country of nearly 1200 Indian Ocean islands, attracts scads of A-listers, maybe because they want to see it while it’s still there. Located 300 miles south of Sri Lanka and India, the Republic of Maldives, as its officially known, is the lowest country in the world and as ocean levels rise, it could be the first fatality. Already, the country’s president, Mohamed Nasheed, is crafting a contingency plan by searching for land in Australia. Beyonce and Jay Z recently yachted the Maldives and Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes honeymooned there soon after their $2 million Italian wedding in 15th century Odesalchi Castle.

Sir McCartney’s resort of choice is Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, two islands actually connected by a wooden footbridge. Voted twice as “best hotel in the world,” it’s a short 30-minute seaplane hop from Male, the Maldives’ capital and largest city.

With 150 villas, spread out over two islands, guests feel like they have paradise to themselves. The sunset water villas, with glass floors overlooking the coral reef, come with a private speedboat, a butler and a circular bed that rotates to follow the setting sun. The beach villas, scattered among tropical gardens on Rangalifinolhu Island (try saying that seven times), have courtyards with fountains, outdoor garden bathrooms and all-glass walls. Or choose a spa villa that comes with its own private treatment room.

The resort offers seven restaurants and four bars, not to mention 18,000 bottles of wine, but the restaurant that gets the most ink is Ithaa, an all-glass undersea restaurant with wooden floors, an arched see-through ceiling and seating for a mere 14. Getting reservations to this human fish bowl is tricky, not to mention over-the-top expensive. Lunch starts at $120. But where else can you dine 16-feet below sea level as the Indian Ocean’s exotic and brilliantly-hued sea life swims above your head. Ithaa means “pearl in Dihevi, the language of the Maldives, and indeed it is.

For even more sea creature-viewing, there’s Over-Water spa (it’s one of three if you count the Ice Cream Spa which is just for kids) that’s perched on stilts above the turquoise sea. While enjoying one of 40 treatments, guests watch the unspoilt coral reef through the glass floor.

It’s barefoot luxury at its award-winning best. Oh, and if you have the spare change, you can arrange for a sleepover in Ithaa for a mere $11,710 per night.

Click here for more about this one-of-a-kind property.

Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Angelina Jolie, Lindsay Lohan and just about every glamorous and scandalous movie star who has ever made a career by making headlines owes a debt to a woman whose “bad girl” behavior would have left all of them in the dust.

This woman appeared as the nude star of stage shows, dated powerful men, blazed through five husbands, including the world bareknuckle, heavyweight boxing champ and another who was a leading intellectual. She set fashion trends, inspired famous writers to create fictional characters based on her real life, was rumored to be bisexual and shocked the popular culture into following her every move. What’s more, she lived more than 100 years ago.

Adah Menken was the first media celebrity, who was known around the world as “The Naked Lady” because her stage show featured her nude (in a sheer body stocking). Her star power inspired poets like Walt Whitman and writers like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used Menken as the basis for the classic Sherlock Holmes supporting character of Irene Adler. Her popularity was fueled by a new advent of the period, mass circulation newspapers. Their reporters couldn’t wait to write about her latest adventure, according to biographers Michael and Barbara Foster, who call her the originator of the modern celebrity femme fatale.

“Menken was an original who pioneered in several areas we now take for granted,” said the Fosters, authors of the newly published A Dangerous Woman: The Life, Loves and Scandals of Adah Isaacs Menken, 1835 – 1868 (www.thegreatbare.com). “Adah invented ‘stardom’ in the modern, media-driven sense, making use of the newly invented newspaper, the telegraph, photography, railroads and steamships to become the first global superstar — number one on Broadway, the rage of gold rush San Francisco, the toast of Victorian London and Paris. Onstage, Adah risked her life every evening in the Civil War sensation Mazeppa, in which apparently stripped naked she rode up a four-story stage mountain tied to a stallion. The mix of sexuality and danger made her the Civil War siren, the highest paid actress in the world, and caused her death at 33. A ‘shooting star,’ her example would be followed by the likes of Jean Harlow, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, and a roster of short-lived superstars.”

Moreover, it wasn’t that Adah did these things to garner attention or as cheap publicity stunts. The Fosters believe that “Swimming Against the Current”–an essay she wrote in defense of Walt Whitman–was an essential part of her personality. There was nothing contrived about her.

“Adah wrote confessional, revealing poetry long before the fashion,” added Barbara. “She strongly defended the Jewish people (in print and interviews), her gay friends such as Whitman, and the underdog in general. In addition to her five husbands, Adah intrigued with several famous lovers, including Alexandre Dumas. She became a fashion icon, often cross-dressing as a man – something Madonna would make headlines for a century later. Adah’s admirers both before and since her tragic death have included Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Henry Longfellow, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Billy Rose, Jerome Kern, ‘woman’s director’ George Cukor, Texas Governor Ann Richards, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and film star Michael York.”

Adah has been portrayed in several earlier biographies, numerous articles ranging from the academic to The Rotarian, and often through fictional characters inspired by her true life story.

“Stella Adler played Adah on the stage, while Ruth Roman played her in the TV serial Bonanza. Sophia Loren played an Adah-based character in George Cukor’s only western, Heller In Pink Tights, while most recently Rachel McAdams played Adah as Irene Adler in Sherlock Holmes. Adler/Adah is the most intriguing woman in the Holmes stories, who even outwits the master detective,” Michael added.

“The real movie about the real woman cries out to be made,” agreed the Fosters. “It’s a pity Adah isn’t around to play herself!”

In the 1890s, the town of Dunton, Colorado, had a population of 500, most of whom worked the nearby mines. By 1918, the mine had shut down and Dunton, like many Colorado towns, became a ghost town. Although it had a short reincarnation in the 1970s as a hangout for hippies, bikers, and nude volleyball types who traded beers for dips in the hot springs, its bordello, saloon, and cabins basically sat boarded up for 75 years.

Then in 1994, a couple Europeans who were skiing in nearby Telluride heard that the entire town was for sale at about the same price as a condo in Aspen. Fifteen minutes after finding the place (it’s a good 45 minutes from the nearest non-ghost town), the friends decided to snatch it up, battered façade be damned.

After funneling $3 million into the 187-acre place (each of the 12 cabins is decorated by a Munich art dealer with a monstrous budget and extremely good taste), they found that they’d fallen so madly in love with their “vild vest” ghost town that, rather than sell lots, as they had originally intended, they’d rent them out. Before long, they opened their ghost town spa to individual guests such as Darryl Hannah, Tom Cruise, and Ralph Lauren, who happens to own a vast acreage nearby.

The yoga room is a former Pony Express stop, the bath house still has bullet holes in it, the library is an old barn furnished with distressed-leather armchairs and bearskin rugs, one of the four hot springs (two indoors, two out) is located in a tepee, and the dining hall is the town’s old saloon with a long wooden bar scratched with names of people who have tipped the bottle there. Butch Cassidy, who allegedly stayed in Dunton after robbing his first bank in Telluride, provided one of the autographs.

Each of the 12 restored cabins, although imperfect on the outside, is tremendously luxurious on the inside, with African textiles, baronial antiques, broadband internet, radiant floor heating, and hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of art.

Dunton Hot Springs, which can only be reached via a 22-mile dirt road, is a perfect hideout for camera-shy celebs. www.duntonhotsprings.com.

“Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three—and paradise is when you have none.”
—Doug Larson

You’ve probably seen pictures of Kauai’s Na Pali Coast. The crenellated, rainbow-adorned, ocean-plunging cliffs had starring roles in Jurassic Park, Thorn Birds, South Pacific, and one of the King Kong movies. Many folks who visit Kauai take an afternoon catamaran or helicopter tour to see this rugged 22-mile strip of undeveloped coastline, widely regarded as one of the prettiest in the world.

That’s all fine and good, and in fact everyone should get a glimpse of paradise. But what we’re recommending here is a hiking and camping trip to Na Pali’s Kalalau Beach, a remote postcard-perfect beach with a spectacular waterfall for showering and guava, mango, and papaya trees for dining. In the summer, when it’s dry, you can camp out in one of the many sea caves. Most people carry in tents; some string hammocks between a couple of gnarled koa trees. It’s devilishly difficult to get to—the 11-mile one-way hike is steep, often muddy, and shared by mountain goats—but Kalalau Beach is like no place else on earth.

Jackie Yellin, who has traveled across the globe, says a 10-day camping trip she recently took to Kalalau Beach was the most unusual vacation she’s ever been on, reminding her of the free-spirited days of the 1960s when people lived simple lives and had no use for modern conveniences. “We showered every morning in the waterfall, slept unencumbered on the beach, and met the most interesting people,” she recalls.

The narrow coastal trail that leads to Kalalau Beach was built through the dense jungle by native Hawaiians, hundreds of whom once lived in the remote coastal valleys, fishing or raising taro on terraced plots. Extensive stone walls, house platforms, and temple structures can still be found on the valley floors. The treacherous trail dips in and out of rain forest, through five valleys, and past dozens of waterfalls and 4,000-foot cliffs. At several turns, it spills out onto white sandy beaches.

The trailhead is located at the end of Highway 560 at Ke’e Beach, near a piece of land once owned by Elizabeth Taylor’s brother Howard. After being denied a building permit, he let a bunch of hippie friends build tree houses there, and the place became known as “Taylor’s Camp.”

The first few miles of the Kalalau Trail are widely used. The majority of hikers stop at Hanakapiai Beach, 2 miles in, and a few go the next 4 miles to Hanakoa Falls, a stunning 100-foot falls and pool. Only the hardy continue on to Kalalau Beach.

To camp or even hike the Kalalau Trail, you have to get a state permit. It’s advisable to secure one as early as possible, because two-thirds of all camping permits to Kalalau for the summer are issued a full year in advance. You’re also required to sign a statement promising that you’ll use “good judgment”—not a bad vow to make, considering that the trail is only inches wide in some places with sheer 800-foot drops to the sea. Signs along the way will remind you of your promise, saying, for example, “Tidal Wave Marker” or “This lifesaving equipment was donated by family and friends of Dr. Ulf Tahleson, a strong swimmer, who drowned here in March 1979.” Each permit is marked in bright red letters “Swimming Not Recommended.”

Camping permits can be obtained for $10 a day.

In 2005, Jean Feraca, host of “Here and Now,” was in Naples, Italy looking for an authentic pizzaioli. Not a bad place to look. Naples, after all, is where pizza was allegedly invented. As the story goes, Neapolitan chef Raffaele Esposito created a tomato, mozzarella and basil pizza (red, white and green, the colors of the Italian flag) for Italian Queen Margherita in 1889.

Feraca, who traveled all the way from Madison, Wisconsin, wanted to interview a pizza maker who still practiced old school pizza. According to the Naples pizza police, real pies must be baked in a wood-burning oven, using authentic farina-based Caputo flour, Italian plum tomatoes and freshly-made mozzarella. When the Naples pizzaiolis found out where the NPR radio host was from, they laughed and told her about an authentic pizzaioli only two hours from her home.

Stefano Viglietti, an Italian-American from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, makes authentic Pizza Napoletana. He traveled to the Amalfi Coast in 1999 to train and become the fifth American to meet the strict set of guidelines set down by the Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana, a prestigious Naples-based non-profit that protects the methods and ingredients used in making Neapolitan pizza.

To this day, Viglietti makes annual pilgrimages to Italy where he looks for “small places where I can cook beside mothers and daughters.”

When he opened Il Ritrovo (it’s Italian for “gathering place”) in 2001, an old school pizzaioli traveled from Naples to this little town on the Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan to confirm he met the valued standards and to train his staff.

Viglietti took the Italian Slow Food movement to heart. Next to Il Ritrovo in downton Sheboygan, Viglietti and his wife Whitney run Field to Fork, a café and grocery that serves nothing but organic, local and natural products. Viglietti’s chefs bake all their own breads and deserts, roast their own coffee, make homemade soups and squeeze their own juices. www.ilritrovopizza.com, www.thefieldtofork.com.

The new Eau de Vie Suite at Kohler’s tony American Club is so fabulously tempting that it nearly led a troop of girl scouts to their financial demise.

The troop, on tour of the historic five-diamond resort, took one look at the suite with the seven-foot chromatherapy tub, the glass-paneled fireplace and its own personal elevator and immediately asked to set up camp for the night. That year’s cookie sales, they pointed out, raked in just enough to cover the suite’s $1000 a night price tag. Luckily, their troop leader steered them in a more prudent direction.

But for those with big enough wallets to afford the new French-named suite (Eau de Vie translates to “Water of Life”), it’s worth every penny. Like all 240 rooms at the hotel that was originally built to house the Kohler Company’s single immigrant workers, it showcases the company’s upscale plumbing appliances. Only in this suite, the crème de la crème in an already luxe resort, the bathroom takes center stage. The overflowing tub, perhaps the only hotel tub in the world in which Kareem Abdul-Jabbar could comfortably relax, has an artistic overhead spicket and LED light ports that sequentially change to eight different hues.

As for the giant shower, it’s operated digitally and, thanks to its custom sound, light, water and steam features, offers six different sensory journeys. Perhaps, those girl scouts could have scored a few travel badges, after all.

With handcrafted lights from Florence, Italy and mosaic rose tiling by Ann Sacks, the Eau de Vie suite comes with a special bottle of Eau de Vie brandy, canapés and fresh flowers. Just don’t trade it for Girl Scout cookies.

For more on this stunning suite with its own private elevator and the resort that has four championship golf courses, click here.

Justin Timberlake, whose Mirimichi Golf Course was the first in the country to achieve the prestigious GEO (golf environmental certification), isn’t the only golf course going green.

The two championship courses at JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort and Spa run all 10 of their maintenance vehicles on veggie oil — or rather a special biodiesel they process from their restaurant’s leftover grease.

It’s a win-win for everyone. The waste products (read: French fry grease) from the resort’s three restaurants aren’t dumped in the landfill, dependence on petroleum is all but eliminated and there’s less air pollution on the two award-winning golf courses. Not to mention the savings in fuel costs.

And that’s just the beginning of the resort’s environmental stand. Both courses, with their wide fairways, multi-tiered greens and fiendish bunkers are Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuaries which, among other things, means they’ve reduced chemicals and water use and have provided acres of habitats for local wildlife.

And while golfers, stereotypically more interested in “the greens” than green, flock to Desert Springs Resort’s courses for their superb landscape, their swan and duck-filled water features and their long list of “best of” awards, it’s reassuring to us green-leaning types that the sport of golf is working to cut its environmental footprint.

Ever since January 1995 when 81 golf industry professionals and environmentalists met at Pebble Beach to begin a dialogue, steam has been building to make golf more eco-friendly. Before then, issues such as water use (by some accounts, 300,000 gallons a day on U.S. courses) and pesticides were all but ignored. What? Golf’s not green? We’re out in nature, there’s trees, there’s wildlife.

So, thank you, Desert Springs Resort and Spa for demonstrating environmental leadership. And while you can’t exactly change your gorgeous desert location (and why would you want to?), I appreciate the steps you’ve taken to mitigate water use.

Led by Albert Perez, Director of Grounds, these golf courses with the high-tech electric golf carts that compute yardage to the pin use treated effluent (waste) water, irrigate smaller areas of the property and have raised mowing heights. And now, like Neil Young whose Lincoln Continental runs on biofuel, Arnold Schwarzenneger who converted his 87 Wagoneer and countless young eco-warriors with their veggie VW’s, Palm Desert’s premier golf course powers all its maintenance vehicles with grease.

JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa, 74855 Country Club Drive, Palm Desert, CA 92260, 760.341.2211

To an actress, turning 50 is almost a death sentence. To the grand old dames listed here, 50 is merely the starting gate, the age you must attain to even be considered. Yes, we’re talking National Register of Historic Places and, more specifically, the National Trust’s Historic Hotels of America, a listing of 230 time-honored hotels and resorts that faithfully maintain their historic integrity, architecture, and ambience. Needless to say, many of these have spas, some as fabled as the hotel itself. Here are just six

The American Club. Built in 1918 to house single immigrants who came to work at the Kohler Company, a renowned maker of bathroom fixtures, the brick Tudor dormitory was transformed into a luxury hotel in 1981. Walter Kohler, president of the company and governor of Wisconsin from 1929 to 1931, believed his immigrant workers deserved “not only wages, but roses, as well.” His resident workers enjoyed wholesome meals, a four-lane bowling alley, a billiard and tap room, and summer concerts on the front lawn. American flags were hung everywhere–Kohler’s not-so-subtle hint that his immigrant workers might want to consider applying for U.S. citizenship. John Philip Sousa’s patriotic marches were piped in during dinner, and lessons in English language were held every Tuesday. By 1930, Kohler had convinced nearly 700 immigrant workers to take the annual paid day off and free transportation to the county courthouse to take their oath of citizenship.

Nowadays, the American Club is a five-diamond luxury hotel with four indoor garden courtyards, twelve distinctive restaurants, and, not surprisingly, uncommonly opulent bathrooms. The Kohler Waters Spa, in the Carriage House of the American Club, has treatment rooms with waterfalls, immersion suites, a glass-enclosed rooftop deck and fireplaces. 800-344-2838

French Lick Springs Hotel. Once called the “Eighth Wonder of the World,” this venerable resort is where tomato juice was invented, where Franklin D. Roosevelt secured his 1931 presidential nomination in 1931 and where such guests as Clark Gable, Al Capone, John Barrymore, and Bing Crosby sipped brandy and relaxed in the resort’s famed Pluto mineral springs baths. The French Lick Springs Hotel still sits on 1,600 acres in the Hoosier National Forest in Indiana and offers two golf courses, croquet, archery, horseback riding, surrey rides, two swimming pools, a bowling alley, tennis courts, and the spa–which has been updated since the mid-1800s when rich Chicagoans would take the Monon railroad straight from the Windy City to the resort’s front entrance. 812-936-9300.

The Greenbrier. Since 1778, people have been coming to this mountain retreat in West Virginia to “take the waters.” Finally in 1830, when a stagecoach route was hacked out through the forbidding mountains, the resort, which was then known as White Sulphur Springs Resort, became a fashionable meeting spot for wealthy Southerners. Soldiers from both the North and South took turns occupying the grounds at some point during the Civil War, using it as either a military headquarters or a hospital. The Greenbrier, as it’s now called, has hosted dignitaries from President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, who spent their 1914 Easter holiday there; to Joseph and Rose Kennedy, who took the train there from Boston for their honeymoon, also in 1914. Recreational activities at the resort include an array from croquet and horseback riding to daily lessons in the ancient sport of falconry. The spa’s holistic treatments are based on the healing powers of the naturally sulfurous water and mineral springs. There’s also a meditation trail and a medical diagnostic facility that provides physical exams and a whole range of specialized testing. 800-453-4858.

The Homestead. Twenty-two U.S. presidents have signed the guest register at this classic mountain resort, including Thomas Jefferson who enjoyed the Homestead’s mineral springs (they’re now called the Jefferson Pools) when he stayed for three weeks in 1818. The Homestead was developed as a spa resort in 1766, and the octagonal wooden building where Jefferson soaked three times daily is considered the oldest spa structure in America. Snuggled in the rustic beauty of Virginia’s Allegheny Mountains, the Homestead’s more than 3,000 acres contains three premier golf courses and a host of outdoor activities from fly-fishing, falconry and trap shooting to ice-skating, skiing, and snowboarding. The spa, still fed by the historic hot springs, offers mineral baths (including a “Jefferson soak”–an hour-long soak in a Jefferson pool for $17), hot stone massage, steam room, and saunas. 800-838-1766.

Mohonk Mountain House. Built on a cliff overlooking the deep blue waters of Lake Mohonk, this grand seven-story Victorian castle is still being run by the same Quaker family that started it in 1869. Twin brothers Alfred and Albert Smiley, on a picnic to the Adirondacks, fell in love with the area and decided to buy a ten-room inn and tavern and turn it into the 266-room castle and historic landmark it is today. Not only does it still have a 107-year-old Scottish links golf course, a Victorian maze, and 19th-century English gardens, but it has also added 85 miles of hiking trails, tennis, golf, boating, ice-skating, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and, of course, the new spa. 800-772-6646.

Ojai Valley Inn and Spa. Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, and Paul Newman are just a few of the stellar guests who have frequented this historic Spanish-style resort in Southern California’s Ojai Valley. Originally built in 1922 as a country club for Edward Drummond Libbey, a wealthy glass manufacturer from Ohio, the resort has 303 spacious rooms and suites with fireplaces, terraces, and spectacular views of the mountains. In addition to the classic 1923 golf course, the 800-acre ranch has stables and horseback riding, a full-service tennis center, two heated swimming pools, and a spa that regularly makes top-10 lists. The Kuyam mud or healing clay treatment is the spa’s signature, but it also offers seasonal scrubs such as spring’s pixie tangerine body scrub or winter’s peppermint and nutmeg foot and leg scrub. 805-646-1111, http://www.ojairesort.com.

Reese Witherspoon and new hubby, Jim Toth, had to hurry back from their honeymoon in Belize so Reese could promote Water for Elephants. But they certainly didn’t skimp when choosing accommodations.

In fact, they wisely stayed at a couple resorts lovingly created by fellow thespian Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola’s Blancaneaux Lodge and Turtle Inn (his resort portfolio also includes La Lancha in nearby Guatemala) are movie set perfect, created first by the iconic movie director for his own family and later opened to the public. They’re both small (around 20 rooms each) so the newlyweds didn’t have to worry about crowds of gawkers.

The Godfather director visited Belize in the early 1980’s soon after it gained independence. He was so smitten with the country that reminded him of his Apocalypse Now that he decided to buy Blancaneaux Lodge, an abandoned resort tucked into the jungle canopy of the Maya Mountains. He proceeded to pour the same love and care into this jungle paradise as he does into his movies. Near sacred Mayan sites and deep caves, Blancaneaux Lodge is filled with dark hardwoods, hand-carved masks and other artisan crafts that Eleanor, Coppola’s wife, personally gathered. For ten years, it was the family’s private retreat, but in 1993, when friends and family flew down for the esteemed director’s 54th birthday, the secret was out.

In honor of Coppola’s heritage, Blancaneaux’s Montagna Ristorante has a wood-burning pizza oven (the only acceptable kind, he says), serves old family recipes and offers an extensive selection of wines, many grown at Coppola’s own Napa Valley winery. The pizza is so good that the British Army regularly helicopters in for lunch. More than 80 percent of Blancaneaux’s food is grown right on site at its four-acre organic herb and vegetable garden, one of lodge’s many sustainable commitments. Its soaring thatched-ceiling cabanas, many on stilts, are completely powered, for example, by the resort’s own hydroelectric plant.

Turtle Inn, where Reese’s kids enjoyed a gelato bar, is perched on the country’s south coast on the Placencia Peninsula. Coppola also rescued this beachside refuge, in 2001 after Hurricane Iris washed it out to sea. From the resort, guests can scuba dive, take canoe trips up Monkey River or bike into a traditional Belizean village. Not surprisingly, it, too, has an authentic Neapolitan brick pizza oven.

Witherspoon and Toth were married March 26 at her Ojai ranch. They flew to Belize on April 4 with Ava and Deacon.

Click here for more on these Belizean resorts that regularly pull down “best of” awards from Travel+Leisure and Conde Nast Traveler.