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OLD BAHAMA BAY |
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GRAND BAHAMA , BAHAMAS
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Old Bahama Bay is a five-star yacht club, villa and condo-hotel complex in the former rum-running settlement of West End. Away from Freeport's Neon, it's in a good location. The beach is clean and the tides are mild. There is also a private, 72-slip marina that makes the resort popular with West Palm Beach yachties who sail in at weekends to eat at any of the resort's three restaurants, sometimes checking in to join friends at the hotel. It makes for a convivial atmosphere, and the à la carte Aqua restaurant (there is also the Dockside Grill and a beach bar) is good, featuring excellent Caribbean comfort food.
The manager, Michel Neutelings (formerly of Parrot Cay in the Turks and Caicos), knows exactly what he's doing. The traditional Caribbean aesthetics are attractive (including a flagship villa conceived by the late Arne Hasselqvist, also responsible for some of the best houses on Mustique) and, when it's all completed, it should be a peaceful place to stay. However, the area will remain a construction
site for at least two years as there are plans to build a thalassotherapy spa, an 18-hole oceanfront golf course on the property's 2,000 acres, and a private runway (probably to attract more regulars such as John Travolta).
ROOM TO BOOK
Any ground-floor room with garden access
CONTACT
Old Bahama Bay, West End, Grand Bahama (00 1 242 346 6500; fax: 346 6546; email: info@oldbahamabay.com; www.oldbahamabay.com). Doubles from US$292
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