The grandest accommodation is Bickford's own two-bedroom villa, which can be rented when he's not in residence.

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It has a whitewashed al fresco restaurant that specializes in Mediterranean fare, a night-lit swimming pool surrounded with beanbags, 23 air-conditioned beachfront bungalows with Balinese-style outdoor bathrooms and a two-bedroom villa with plunge pool set on a hill.

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The first 25 escapees will receive an automatic upgrade to a two-bedroom garden-view villa.

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With just 17 rooms (including a two-bedroom, butler-staffed villa), this beachfront resort is located on an 18th-century sugar plantation on the exclusive Caribbean island of Mustique.

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