Inclusion criteria

The register records resorts that hold land of their own — and, deliberately, the properties that come close without meeting that test. A record is created when a property exists, not when it qualifies.

The core test is a boundary: no street outside, no shared beach, no neighbour in sight. Properties that hold real ground and borrow part of their surroundings are kept and described as they are — an estate whose beach is public is recorded as public, not as private. Properties with no ground at all are not private resorts, however fine the house: two have been moved to other registers on that ground and their codes retired rather than reused.

Scale is not the test. Two hectares on a Corsican cliff and two thousand acres on a Caribbean coast are both territories; a hotel on a boulevard with a seawater pool is not.

Inclusion is never bought. No property has paid, or can pay, to enter the register or to change a field in it.

Classified by The Resort Collection House · The Register · Edition 2026