Review: Four Seasons Resort Sharm El Sheikh

This ten-year-old hillside Moorish-style resort—replete with towers, arabesques, and moucharabies and overlooking the Sinai Peninsula—"is like the Garden of Eden." Eighteen hundred palm trees line the driveway to the open-air lobby, where "the flower arrangements are amazing." Brick villas arranged in clusters have rooms in browns and creams; most come with balconies facing the Red Sea. "In every area of the resort, staff went out of their way to provide above-and-beyond service"—poolside, they keep guests cool with mist sprays. Arabesque serves Middle Eastern cuisine, while Il Frantoio dishes up Italian. Get a coffee-and-milk scrub at the spa. "It's my favorite resort in the whole wide world."