Reopened in 2012 after a $30 million renovation that refurbished its 49 Spanish-style casitas and refocused the resort on wellness, Rancho Valencia recently transformed its 12 residential-style villas and installed the Rein bar, serving cocktails and light fare to loungers and cabanas by the adults-only pool. Forty-five grove- and garden-studded acres, about 8 miles east of the beach and 4 miles south of Rancho Santa Fe, whose Spanish Colonial village center was designed by architect Lillian Rice in the 1920s.