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Golf is the name of the game at this boutique resort set within a gated country-club community at the base of the Santa Catalina Mountains. The lodge shares its two highly acclaimed Tom Fazio-designed courses with the nearby Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, and the third hole of the resort's Mountain Course plays across a deep ravine. This just might be the most photographed hole in Tucson. While both resorts are luxurious, this one features an added air of exclusivity. Stay here and you'll feel as though you are a member of an exclusive country club. Though small, the lodge manages to offer plenty of big-resort amenities and places an emphasis on personal service. The accommodations are in spacious suites, most of which have walls of windows facing the Catalinas, modern mission-style furnishings, small kitchens, and large bathrooms with oversize tubs (some are even the old-fashioned footed variety). A few units have balconies, cathedral ceilings, and spiral stairs that lead to sleeping lofts.

Facilities: Restaurant (New American); lounge; snack bar; outdoor pool; 2 acclaimed 18-hole golf courses; 12 tennis courts; playground; exercise room; Jacuzzi; saunas; bike rentals; concierge; car-rental desk; room service; massage and spa treatments; laundry service; dry cleaning.

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