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Sixty Minutes, Four Courts, 500 Calories at Our Lucaya

Where: Royal Palm Way , Grand Bahamas

Just a touch too late to really tie in with the US Open, but maybe not too late to catch our tennis enthusiasm, the Westin and Sheraton Grand Bahama Island Our Lucaya Resort is offering an unusual fitness deal called the Grand Slam Workout.

Working on the principle that tennis is an excellent calorie killing exercises (apparently it's in the top five activities for burning calories), Our Lucaya is offering 60 minutes of exercise with a tennis pro for $150. The special part of it all is you'll be playing four quick sets on all four Grand Slam surfaces, red clay, grass, Rebound Ace and DecuTurf.

Our Lucaya reckons they'll burn 500 calories off you in the hour workout, but even if they don't, it sounds like the kind of experience that makes for an interesting story to tell, at least.

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Hurricane Policies at Starwood's Bahamas Hotels

Where: Royal Palm Way , Grand Bahamas, Bahamas

The Westin Grand Bahamas

If you're making plans to go to the Bahamas anytime soon (June-November is hurricane season), take comfort: The Westin and Sheraton Grand Bahama Island properties promise to waive any cancellation or no-show fees if Grand Bahama Island gets placed under Hurricane Warning or even Hurricane Watch.

If anyone with a reservation can't get to the resort due to the closure of the hotel or Grand Bahama Island International Airport, they'll get a full refund or an upgrade on their next visit if they come back within a year.

But we wonder what they do, if you can't get out of the island due to a hurricane? Do you have to pay the full room rate. We hope not. Our advice? Avoid hurricane season altogether.