PRICE:
Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Here's a good choice for travelers with champagne tastes and beer budgets, a hotel with more architectural charm than any other small property on Grand Bahama. It's built on a peninsula jutting into a labyrinth of inland waterways, with moored yachts on several sides. Pelican Bay evokes a Danish or Dutch seaside village with rows of whimsically trimmed town houses, each painted a different color, and each overlooking the harbor. The hotel opened in 1996, expanded in 1999, and was refurbished in 2005 into the kind of venue you might expect to see in an upscale decorating magazine. Its location couldn't be better, immediately adjacent to Port Lucaya Marketplace, where restaurants and entertainment spots abound. Lucaya Beach, one of the best stretches of white sand on the island, is a 5-minute walk away. Taíno Beach, with equally good sands, lies immediately to the east, on the opposite side of a saltwater channel with hourly ferryboat service. UNEXSO, which provides some of the best dive facilities in The Bahamas, is next door. If that weren't enough, the extensive amenities of Our Lucaya are available for use. Accommodations -- especially suites -- are about as stylish and high-fashion as you'll find on Grand Bahama Island, rivaled only by the Westin/Sheraton compound at Our Lucaya, located a very short walk away. Each has either a veranda or a balcony, usually with water views, and floors of buffed, tinted concrete with a scattering of rustic art objects and handicrafts from all over the world. The hotel has one main restaurant, the Ferry House, which specializes in imaginative international cuisine and serves lunch Monday to Saturday and dinner daily. The Yellow Tail Pool Bar offers drinks, salads, and sandwiches throughout the day.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Bahamas 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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