"It is not your parents Ritz Carlton," says company spokeswoman Landry Fuller. "After hundreds of interviews in our research phase, we took dead aim on the two high tech centers, and our guests will see we've built a world class, tech-friendly hotel in an extraordinary setting."

The resort proper consists of a main lodge and three adjacent guest houses, a 16,000-sfspa and 17,000 sf of meeting space, plus two on-property golf courses and Navio, its signature restaurant. Two thirds of the rooms have ocean views, and each room has three phones, high-speed Internet access, and an in-room safe large enough to fit a laptop computer. A "technology butler" is available to answer computer-related questions.

The site is owned and was developed by a joint venture of Vestar-Athens, a partnership of Vestar Development and The Athens Group, both of Phoenix, and Yarmouth Capital Partners II, a fund managed by Atlanta's Lend Lease Real Estate Investments Inc. The project's architect is Hill Glazier Architects of Palo Alto.