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Frommer's Exceptional

This hotel (originally an unpretentious B&B) recently reopened in a lavishly augmented format that thrust it into the spotlight as one of Harbour Island's most glamorous and stylish inns. The forces behind the restoration were two partners who included J. Wallace Tutt, a building contractor who had designed buildings for clients such as Cher and Versace.

Painted a pale shade of yellow, the hotel sits on a low bluff above the harbor in the center of Harbour Island's only village. The property combines the original 1940s-era B&B with an adjoining site that had functioned for several decades as a Catholic schoolhouse. Today the complex reflects the aesthetics you might encounter in a hip enclave of Miami and incorporates a stylish (and separately recommended) restaurant. Nine of the most whimsical accommodations on Harbour Island are found here. Each is outfitted with a name and a decorative style that's unique to each of its neighbors. Examples include the Reef Room, the Palm Room, the Asian Room, the Nautilus Room, the Pineapple Room, and the Parrot Room. Social life centers on the bar and the lavishly landscaped swimming pool, which is lined with the kind of tentlike cabanas that you might expect along the coast of Sardinia.

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

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