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Pink Sands Resort Can Be Yours to Own

January 21, 2008 at 3:00 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

The celeb-fave getaway Pink Sands Resort on Harbour Island in the Bahamas (Drew Barrymore, Diane Von Furstenburg and Uma Thurman are fans) is now offering private residences.

Purchased from former Island Records owner Chris Blackwell, Pink Sands is expanding the property to include 46 residences consisting of 30 villas and cottages, and 16 condo-hotel units for private ownership.

Groundbreaking on the new residential units, which range from $1.5 million to $8 million, is expected this year.

Have no fear, the property and its two freshwater pools, spa, tennis courts, beach cabanas and WiFi access are still open to regular hotel guests who aren't in the market for a second (or third) home. Although the rooms aren't cheap. In high season, rates are $750 a night for a one-bedroom cottage view room.

Renderings of the private residences after the jump.

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Harbour Island for the Web Reader

March 10, 2006 at 3:35 PM | by markj | 0 Comments

You would be amazed by the joys of reading, but no, all you people want to do is click, click, click. OK, Generation Click, here you go, our Bahamas Harbour Island hotel stories in a nice clickable round-up for ya.

·   Where The Caribbean Cruisers Go


·   Kato's Favorite Island Manse


·   SI Swimsuit Models On-Site


·   This Guy Has The Life


·   Back When Men Were Men, They Went To Beach Resorts

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Harbour Island: Old School Beach Resort

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Colebrook Lane, Harbour Island, Bahamas
March 10, 2006 at 1:06 PM | by markj | 0 Comments


The  Dunmore Beach Club is old school. Blue hairs and beach chairs. The kind of place where a fellow guest might turn to and start a sentence with, "when I was your age"...

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Harbour Island: Record Moguls Gift To Honeymooners

March 9, 2006 at 7:08 PM | by markj | 0 Comments

Chris Blackwell is the dude that "discovered" Bob Marley. He started Island Records back in 1959 and these days he runs Island Outpost, a company that owns five Caribbean resorts, including Harbour Island's Pink Sands. So let's get this straight--he spent most of his adulthood running a record company, and now he lives in the islands operating hotels? This might be the only dude that has a better life than Jack Johnson.

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Harbour Island: Families of Four & Swimsuit Models

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Chapel Street, Harbour Island, Bahamas
March 9, 2006 at 10:18 AM | by markj | 0 Comments

Families, honeymooners and models commingling at a beach front resort--that sums up the Coral Sands. This nine acre resort houses 39 rooms and suites is right on the islands beautiful pink sands beach, but don't go here expecting stand out in-room amenities, or you will be severely disappointed. Instead, go if you want to enjoy a beach front location so beautiful the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition used it as a photo shoot locale.

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Harbour Island: Island Mansion Freeloading

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Bay and Hill St., Harbour Island, Bahamas
March 7, 2006 at 1:56 PM | by markj | 0 Comments

Approximately three years ago J. Wallace Tutt III a.k.a "Wallace", who helped design homes for Gianni Versace and Cher, bought a rental villa and former schoolhouse and transformed it into Harbour Islands Rock House Hotel. This is a love it or hate it type place. The haters will mock the South Beach style poolside cabanas and omnipresent rock and roll music, saying "this isn't stripped down island life", while the lovers will return year after year rave about the service, the owners, the meticulously maintained picture perfect pool area, and the scene--yes, there is a scene at Rock House.

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Harbour Island: Where Models Become Hoteliers

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Bay Street, Harbour Island, Bahamas
March 6, 2006 at 11:26 AM | by markj | 0 Comments

A couple years back former Ralph Lauren model turned designer India Hicks and her partner David Flint Wood refurbished The Landing, a seven-room, colonial style hotel steps from the Govt. Boat Dock.  India was so excited about her new career as a Bahama design mamma she even wrote a book about it.  So what is her hotel like?

The seven rooms are split into two buildings built of limestone back in 1800.  The main building houses a restaurant, a large veranda overlooking the bay, and a library with reliable, free Internet access, via an old iMac (though the Landing Wifi network is available on-site and seemed stable).

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