Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach Resort & Club

Situated along the pristine shores of the majestic Pacific Ocean stands The St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort. Experience Orange County's refined coastal retreat, featuring an 18-hole golf course, award-winning Spa Gaucin and six ocean-view restaurants including celebrated chef Michael Mina's Stonehill Tavern.

* Spa Gaucin at The St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort has 25 treatment rooms, where guests can enjoy massages, hydrotherapy, body wraps, facials, and a range of other services. Separate men's and women's locker rooms have steam rooms, saunas, and herbal saunas. * Beauty services are available at the adjacent Vogue Salon, and bath, beauty, and fitness products are sold in the spa boutique. * With views of the ocean, the fitness center has treadmills, stair machines, and stationary bikes with personal entertainment systems. Guests of the resort can take advantage of daily aerobics, mat Pilates, and yoga classes; personal trainers are also available. * In addition to a family pool and outdoor lap pool, there is an ocean-view pool with 10 private poolside cabanas featuring bottled water, fruit, refrigerators, cordless phones, ceiling fans, televisions, and DVD players. There are supervised activities through the Sandcastle Kids Club for children 5 to 12 years old. Guests of this Orange County resort can follow landscaped trails down from the resort to the 6.1-acre ocean beach. In addition to swimming and other recreation, the beach has attendant service during the summer and access to a private beach club year-round. * The resort's 18-hole golf course was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., and it offers ocean views and a clubhouse. The course is one of the few oceanfront championship golf courses in California. The tennis club has eight hard and two lighted courts, in addition to private lessons. * The St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort has 30,000 square feet of indoor meeting space, including two ballrooms, and 60,000 square feet of outdoor space. A 24-hour business center provides secretarial services, equipment rental, computers, photocopying, faxing, and cellular phone rental.

* This Orange County resort has 400 guestrooms, all of which include furnished balconies with views of the ocean, golf course, or gardens. Rooms have high-speed Internet access, three telephones, 42-inch LDC TVs, DVD and CD players and libraries, and premium channels. * There's custom-designed furniture, chaise lounges, desks with chairs, and floor-to-ceiling mirrors. Beds have down comforters and 300-thread-count Pratesi Italian sheets. Marble bathrooms have Remède bath products, Cypress bathrobes, walk-in showers, soaking tubs, and double vanities. Rooms also have minibars.