The breathtaking Auberge property, Esperanza Resort, offers amazing swimming pools, painting classes, cooking classes, nightly s'mores around the La Palapa fire pit, and family-friendly themed dinners.
"Founding members established a religious structure for community life, including daily prayer hours, a spiritual discussion group, Greek classes, nightly prayer group, and monthly Taizé services".
The communities offer a warm-weather routine of golf, shuffleboard, swimming, nightly shows, lectures, pottery classes and exercise groups.
(When the perky girl in your class reveals her nightly ritual of drinking milk from a baby bottle, it's hard not to wonder if an acting teacher is what she really needs).
We were especially turned off by nightly guard duty and ballistics classes, which dragged on forever in the musty classroom barracks.
Participants have a four-week schedule of one-on-one voice, diction and role coaching, and almost nightly performances, with public master classes, concerts and eight fully staged productions.
During his nightly walks through the middle-class district, replete with single-family homes and freshly mowed lawns, Mr. Duong is a slow and winning speaker who likes to close his pitches with "God Bless America" in what sounds like a Southern accent, even though Mr. Duong grew up in District 7.
In addition to yoga classes, Pura Vida offered nightly activities for all guests, as well as occasional daytime excursions to local attractions.
Meadowood hosts nightly wine tastings, and guests can take classes at its Wine Center.
Even gym class is conducted in Latin; the nightly fund-raising calls soon begin to grate; the quasi-religious Black Velvet Headband ceremony, coming as it does in the third grade, seems precociously early.
