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Frommer's Highly Recommended

If Harbour Island has a mega-hotel, this is it. Since its inception as a small-scale haven for yachties in the 1980s, it has survived major shifts in both its ownership and its priorities. What you'll see today is a corporate-minded and somewhat anonymous enterprise that has survived many years of squabbling among its partners and with local homeowners. Some locals have objected -- almost violently -- to the construction of the resort's marina, which is Harbour Island's biggest and best-accessorized. Much of the new construction associated with this place has been sold as condominiums to mostly absentee owners. They're rented out as hotel accommodations whenever possible. Don't expect a candy-colored confection in tones of Valentine pink. The predominant colors here are tangerine and coral, all in a low-rise venue just across the sleepy harborfront road, a 10-minute golf-cart ride from Harbour Island's ferryboat piers. Whereas the resort's airy, sunny bar and restaurant lie on the piers directly above the harbor, its accommodations are within Neo-Georgian two-story structures on a sloping lawn uphill from the harbor. Each evokes a government ministry, each is painted a different pastel color, and each contains between 8 and 10 separate accommodations.

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

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