What to expect: The Ponte Vedra Inn & Club is an elegant, oceanfront resort built in 1928 on 300 acres along the Atlantic coastline. The resort is in the exclusive Ponte Vedra Beach village, three miles from Jacksonville Beach and 18 miles from downtown Jacksonville. Guests arrive at a spacious lobby in a new building set on a putting green and in front of the original 1937 clubhouse.

Amenity highlights: Ponte Vedra is one of the golf capitals of the East, and the resort has two seaside, 18-hole golf courses with lagoons and elevated Bermuda greens. Guests can also use one of the country's premier tennis centers, which has 15 Har-Tru courts in a lush setting. A luxurious spa offers massage, facials, manicures, seaweed wraps, and hydrotherapy. There is a fully equipped gym with an Olympic pool as well as three beachside pools.