The Sanya EDITION

What the classifiers highlight

Fifty acres of Hainan waterfront centre on a vast man-made 'private ocean,' around which sit 500-plus rooms, suites and villas, every one with an ocean-view balcony and Le Labo products in a black-tea scent. Xian Hai By the Sea serves seafood on illuminated platforms out over that same lagoon, lanterns drifting past. Playland adds bumper cars and a treehouse.