Luxury golf vacations are popular throughout the world. In the United States, great golf courses are hardly in short supply - and one of the best golf courses affiliated with a luxury hotel is in Florida. The award-winning Camp Creek Golf Course, 10 minutes away from the WaterColor Inn on Florida's Gulf Coast, is a gorgeous course, beautifully designed by Tom Fazio to provide a challenging game in a lovely setting. The golf course is private, and use is limited to guests of the Inn and WaterSound luxury vacation rentals. Here, a perfect family golf vacation is par for the course.

The WaterColor Inn & Resort

The WaterColor Inn is a boutique inn; a small 60-room luxury hotel. The design is open and airy, with full-on views of the Gulf of Mexico from every room. You read that right; every room has a water view. The patios are open and airy as well. Many guests love the hotel room's showers, because they are all designed to give an additional water view - the luxury of taking a shower with the whole of the Gulf of Mexico in view really is a terrific vacation experience.

In a sense, the best type of luxury golf resort vacation is easily had here; after all, Camp Creek was named Florida's #1 Golf Course of the New Millennium, and the WaterColor Inn was named 7th best hotel in the US by Travel & Leisure magazine, for a reason. This beachfront luxury inn is small, so that guests feel special and pampered on their golf and beach vacation. Yet it is also adjacent to the town of WaterColor, one of Florida's prime planned communities for residents and tourists. You're never too far from a restaurant or shop (if need be), despite the "getting away from it all" ambience of the luxury hotel. As a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, Watercolor Inn offers many non-golf activities such as free bike rentals, kayaking, a full-service day spa, tennis, and Camp WaterColor for children ages 4 to 12.