PRICE:
Frommer's Recommended

This hotel was built during an unfortunate Disney-style period in Freeport's expansion during the early 1980s. Its improbable-looking pyramidal roofs inspired by a trio of Mayan pyramids were rendered somewhat less obvious in 2004 when they were resheathed with dark gray metal. Inside it's tasteful and hospitable, with rooms arranged around a verdant courtyard that seems far removed from the busy traffic and sterile-looking landscape outside. Rooms on the street level have white-tile floors, while those upstairs have wall-to-wall carpeting. Bathrooms are a bit on the small side, with sinks and tub/showers. Throughout, the motif is Florida/tropical, with some pizzazz and rates that tend to be cheaper than at the Best Western across the street. There's a family link between the owners of this place and the owners of the more opulent and famous Xanadu. A bus shuttles about every hour between this hotel and Xanadu beach.

There's a coffee-shop-style snack bar and a small restaurant on the premises, but other than that, you'll have to wander a short distance, perhaps to the International Bazaar just across the street, to find diversions and dining.

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

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