Largest Integrated Luxury Resort & Villa Estate
Record Holder
Metric
Date Achieved
Location
Atlas Record ID
Casa de Campo Resort & Villas
7,000 acres
20 July 2026
La Romana [Dominican Republic]
20426065
Casa de Campo Resort & Villas has been recognized for the verified scale of its 7,000-acre integrated luxury resort and villa estate in La Romana, Dominican Republic. The estate combines luxury guest accommodations, private villas, championship recreation, marina, equestrian and polo facilities, shooting center, racquet sports, beach club, dining, and Altos de Chavón within one unified resort destination.
Transparent Adjudicator's Statement
Summary of Claim
Atlas World Records evaluated Casa de Campo Resort & Villas for the record title Largest Integrated Luxury Resort & Villa Estate.
For purposes of this record category, an integrated luxury resort and villa estate is defined as a contiguous or functionally contiguous destination resort estate that operates under one primary resort identity, contains transient guest accommodations, includes a substantial villa or private-residence component, offers multiple permanent resort amenities, and is recognized as a luxury hospitality destination by credible third-party travel, hospitality, or awards organizations.
The record metric is total verified acreage within the unified resort estate boundary.
Evidence Submitted
Atlas reviewed official Casa de Campo Resort & Villas materials and publicly available property documentation supporting the following:
• Casa de Campo Resort & Villas is identified as a 7,000-acre resort estate.
• The property operates under the Casa de Campo Resort & Villas identity.
• The resort includes luxury rooms, suites, and villa accommodations.
• Guest stays include access to the resort’s 7,000 acres and exclusive resort experiences.
• The property includes multiple permanent resort amenities, including championship golf, marina, shooting center, racquet center, polo, equestrian facilities, beach club, dining, and Altos de Chavón.
• Altos de Chavón is identified as a 16th-century Mediterranean-style village with galleries, shops, restaurants, a church, an archaeological museum, design school, and 5,000-seat amphitheater.
• Casa de Campo Resort & Villas has received third-party hospitality, golf, travel, and luxury recognition, including Forbes Travel Guide and AAA award references listed in official resort materials.
Comparative and Cross-Archive Benchmark Review
Atlas compared Casa de Campo against publicly identifiable large resorts, resort-residential communities, private-club communities, theme-park complexes, luxury mixed-use hospitality developments, and master-planned resort destinations.
Atlas also cross referenced publicly available records at all major world record organizations and found no conflicting certified record that displaced Casa de Campo under this defined category.
The review identified several larger properties by raw acreage. However, the record is not Largest Resort by Acreage. The relevant category is Largest Integrated Luxury Resort & Villa Estate, which requires acreage, unified luxury resort identity, guest accommodations, villa or private-residence component, and multiple permanent resort amenities within a single resort estate.
Key benchmark findings included:
• Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina, is larger by raw acreage, but is publicly described as a residential, private-club, and resort community. Its luxury hotel component is separately identified as Montage Palmetto Bluff. Atlas classified Palmetto Bluff as a residential and private-club community containing a luxury resort hotel, rather than a single integrated luxury resort and villa estate operating under one primary resort identity.
• Reynolds Lake Oconee, Georgia, is larger by raw acreage, but is publicly described as a lakefront private-club community with extensive amenities and a separately branded Ritz-Carlton hotel. Atlas classified Reynolds as a private-club and residential community containing a luxury hotel, rather than a unified luxury resort and villa estate under one resort identity.
• Cap Cana, Dominican Republic, is larger by raw acreage, but is a gated master-planned destination containing multiple separately branded hotel and resort operators. Atlas excluded Cap Cana as a multi-brand resort district rather than a single integrated luxury resort and villa estate.
• Walt Disney World Resort, Florida, is larger by raw acreage, but is a theme-park and entertainment resort complex. It does not meet the villa-estate and luxury resort-residential criteria for this category.
• The Villages, Florida, is larger by acreage and residential count, but is an active-adult residential community rather than a luxury destination resort and villa estate.
• Punta Mita, Mexico, is a luxury resort and residential community, but is substantially smaller than Casa de Campo and includes multiple hotel brands.
• Mayakoba, Mexico, is a luxury resort destination with multiple hotel brands and is substantially smaller than Casa de Campo.
• Costa Navarino, Greece, is a major luxury tourism and real-estate destination, but it spans multiple distinct areas and includes multiple separately branded hotels. It is also smaller than Casa de Campo by acreage.
• Baha Mar, The Bahamas, is a major luxury resort development, but it is a multi-brand hotel complex rather than a villa estate operated under one primary resort identity.
• Other reviewed comparables, including Albany, Sea Island, Kiawah Island, Sotogrande, Atlantis Paradise Island, and similar resort destinations, either did not exceed Casa de Campo’s verified acreage, did not meet the single integrated resort and villa estate criteria, or were structured as broader communities, multi-operator districts, or separately branded hospitality developments.
Verification Methodology
Atlas used the following methodology:
Established the record category definition and exclusion criteria before final certification.
Reviewed official Casa de Campo Resort & Villas materials for estate size, location, accommodations, amenities, resort identity, and luxury recognition.
Verified the claimed metric as 7,000 acres based on official resort materials and supporting public property descriptions.
Reviewed the property’s amenity structure to confirm that the estate includes transient guest lodging, villa accommodations, and multiple permanent resort amenities.
Conducted a comparative benchmark review of large global resort estates, private-club communities, resort-residential communities, luxury mixed-use destinations, theme-park resort complexes, and multi-brand resort districts.
Excluded properties that exceeded Casa de Campo in raw acreage but failed the category definition because they were municipalities, retirement communities, theme-park complexes, private-club communities, residential developments containing separately branded hotels, or multi-brand resort districts.
Cross referenced publicly available records at all major world record organizations for conflicting certified records in the same or equivalent category.
Adjudication Findings
Atlas found that Casa de Campo Resort & Villas satisfies the defined requirements for an Integrated Luxury Resort & Villa Estate.
The property is presented as a unified Casa de Campo Resort & Villas destination in La Romana, Dominican Republic. It contains luxury guest accommodations, villa accommodations, and a broad collection of permanent resort amenities across a verified 7,000-acre estate. Its principal amenities include championship golf, marina, equestrian and polo facilities, shooting center, racquet sports, beach club, dining, and Altos de Chavón.
Atlas also found that several properties exceed Casa de Campo by raw acreage, but do not meet the full category definition. The larger benchmarked properties were primarily private-club communities, residential communities, multi-brand resort districts, theme-park complexes, or broader master-planned developments rather than single integrated luxury resort and villa estates under one primary resort identity.
Based on the available evidence and category criteria, Casa de Campo Resort & Villas was determined to be the largest verified property meeting the record definition.
Conclusion
Atlas World Records recognizes Casa de Campo Resort & Villas as the holder of the world record for Largest Integrated Luxury Resort & Villa Estate, with a verified estate size of 7,000 acres.
Certified July 2026 in La Romana, Dominican Republic.





