The world hardly needs more boutiques and large resort compounds.
However the area – unmarred by high-walled resort compounds – remains a great place for newbies to get their sea legs.
The gunmen took some hostages at the Oasis Residential Resorts compound in Khobar, a luxury complex of 220 to 250 villas and apartments that is home to many senior Western company executives, including those from Shell, Honeywell and General Electric.
For many, Grand Baie is either a quaint side trip from the adjacent Royal Palm resort — an ultraluxurious compound with a guest book that includes the former French president Jacques Chirac — or a stop before visiting the nearby beaches of Mont Choisy and Péreybère.
The place to be: Fontainebleau, a lavish resort and restaurant compound that reopened in November 2008 after a $1 billion renovation and expansion.
There is also a slew other activities that start from High Camp, the resort's mid-mountain compound.
The compound of last resort is carbon and in the process methane is formed.
For ski-in, ski-out luxury, check into the recently renovated Beaver Run Resort (620 Village Road 800-265-3560 800-265-3560 800-265-3560ultistoried compound at the base of the Beaver Run SuperChair.
His main residence outside Cairo was a villa in a private compound in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el Sheik, where he went after resigning the presidency on Friday.
Don't confuse Anantara with Aman — the ne plus ultra chain that is set to open Amanfayun (www.amanfayun.com), a spectacular 42-room resort that evokes an ancient Chinese compound, about 20 minutes from Hangzhou, China.
