So you have decided to spend a few days at The Cove Atlantis in Nassau, Bahamas. We're guessing that money is no object for you then, since room rates here start at about $600 a night.
So why not keep the money flowing and thus drop $750 on one of the 20 cabanas that can be found both poolside and beachside at Cain, the adults-only pool and lounge experience within The Cove?
Celebs like Janet Jackson love these cabanas because they offer both beach and pool access, flat-screen TVs, Bose stereo sound systems, internet, full bathrooms and showers (no sand in your bathing suit here!), and a dedicated butler on call. We've seen the butler service on our trip to The Cove and literally, this person does not move from the cabana unless you say so.
And this apparently is the intention of the luxury cabanas. Says Jamie Mulholland, Cain's owner and the hotelier behind Surf Lodge:
Our luxury cabanas at the property are now being run like a mini-hotel business
To that end, Cain at The Cove has hired the former GM from Soho House, Guy Chetwynd, to be their own GM. Which is pretty crazy when you think about it. Too bad the $750 cabana rental fee doesn't allow us to sleep in it overnight.
Perhaps to recover from the loss of her beloved dog Paw Paw, Martha Stewart took her crew to the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas and she even blogged about it! (You know Martha, you could have just submitted a VIP Review to HotelChatter.)
Anyways, Martha's short on text but long on photos and photo captions. After looking at all the pics on her blog, we gathered this is what she did at the Atlantis resort: made a meal with executive sous chef at Jean George Vongerichten’s Café Martinique, tried on straw hats, checked out the garden at The Cove, observed architecture, bandaged her friend's hurt leg, went for a swim in rough seas, pitied her make-up assistant who got seasick, took a lot of pictures on the boat and fed some manta rays.
Go Martha! That's way more action than what we experienced at the resort last year.
As for accommodations, we're guessing Martha et. al. were put up in The Cove which is the newer and more pricier tower.
See what Martha's hotel digs probably looked liked here.
We've been big Huey Lewis fans for as long as we can remember. Ok, so maybe we don't follow every bit of Huey Lewis news but we do know every word to every song on the greatest hits album. That and the people who wrote "Ghostbusters" totally ripped off HLATN's "I want a new drug."
Which is why we would totally hit up the Wyndham Nassau Resort in the Bahamas over March 29 and 30th to see the band play at the Crystal Palace Casino.
Tickets start at $79 and rooms over that weekend (March 28-30) are at $276 for a renovated room at a special webrate price, meaning if you cancel, no refunds allowed. But like, why would we cancel on Huey?
If you need a little cheaper stay, the hotel has "island view" (cough, parking lot, cough) rooms which are not renovated for $138. Unrenovated ocean views are $168.
If you want to splurge on a renovated ocean view room because you are hoping to invite the band back to your room, those start at $335. Just remember, each room category and price charges a $15 resort fee per person, per day. Ugh. We will need a credit card to ride on this hotel train.
Also, the hotel is offering special Huey rates of $250 a night for island view and $310 for ocean view for the dates of March 29 and 30th. These are a little bit different than what we found so shop around and compare within the site or call the hotel to speak with a human to make it easier.
After all, it may be worth the extra work. Huey Lewis and us on the beach in the Bahamas? Oh yeah, mon.
File this one under Major Bad Rate. The Atlantis in the Bahamas is offering a "Paradise Getaway" of 4 days/3 nights from $439. This sounds amazing, right? Well here are some caveats:
· You must book by Feb. 29th, so you have one week left. · Rate is per person, double-occupancy, based on Sun. or Mon. arrival. Got that? · It's effective for travel 4/27/08-6/15/08, basically when it starts to get warm where you live. · It's only for rooms in the Beach Tower Terrace which is the cheapest tower on the property. · Don't forget to add up to $81 per person for mandatory taxes, mandatory housekeeping gratuities, and utility service fees. Yikes, good thing we told you about hidden fees. · Weekend, holiday & peak period surcharges apply. So basically you have to ask for vacation days from work. · Worst of all, we searched several dates online and not once did we see the $439 deal. Unless the deal is $439 per night which isn't really a deal here.
For the second year in a row, The Sheraton Grand Bahama Island is saying no to spring breakers and making it easy for families to enjoy a seasonal getaway. The resort is not accepting reservations from individuals or groups under the age of 21 for travel between February 25th and March 31st, 2008.
Not quite sure how the hotel is going to enforce this rule but we bet they will be IDing heavily at this property.
Meanwhile, families are welcome to stay here. The hotel was voted the #3 Kid-Friendly resort in the Caribbean by Child mag back in 2005 and is offering two family-friendly options.
The Sunny Savings package offers rooms for $220 a night and includes daily breakfast and complimentary access to Camp Lucaya kids club. (Use Code: SUNNY.)
The all-inclusive Reef Package is $295 a couple and includes all taxes, service charges, resort fees,"non-motorized" watersports (snorkeling, etc.) and food and drink choice at one of three on-property restaurants (Use Code: AIPKG08.)
Also this resort is connected to the Westin and there are some exchange privileges between the resorts but we don't know if that "No Spring Breakers" applies to the Westin as well.
We are suckers for a room with a killer view. We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.
Thanks go to jyanich for dropping this killer view into the HotelChatter Flickr pool. The view belongs to the The Cove Atlantis in the Bahamas. It's a paradise kind of picture looking the other direction to this video, and shot from higher up--from the Club Level, in fact. A couple of perfect pools to dive into, a really inviting-looking ocean--that's pretty much enough to satisfy us any time.
If you want your own piece of this paradise, The Cove is running a Paradise Getaway special at the moment starting at $899 for 4 days/3 nights per person; although if you click through to reserve the special, you'll see that it's not available on too many dates in the near future. But if you get there, you can be fairly sure to have a pretty special view, at least.
There's nothing wrong with picking your warm weather escape hotel purely by its cute name, is there? Luckily the Green Turtle Club and Resort in Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas also comes highly recommended as the top pick of hotels in the Great Abaco Island area.
The Green Turtle Club is one of those romantically exotic places that can only be reached by boat, and the resort is housed on an island just three miles long, so you can quickly become familiar with the whole place. We like that, when we're trying to relax.
In fact the place has been there since 1964 so it's no new-fangled tourist resort, but a well established spot that many consider their favorite Bahamas getaway.
Holidaying in Great Exuma has gotta be great, right? Otherwise they wouldn't call it Great Exuma ... just kidding. Great Exuma is the largest of the cays at Exuma in the Bahamas, and that's why it's so great. Also not too bad is the Four Seasons Great Exuma in Emerald Bay, which according to the endless adjectives in the resort's own description is a place that's secluded, tropical, undiscovered and unforgettable.
When we're thinking warm weather vacation, the swimming pool status is something we always like to check into. The Four Seasons Great Exuma has three pools--one for kids, one for active guests and one intended to be a "quiet pool".
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