Our Lucaya’s Westin and Sheraton are large, modern affairs with all the conveniences you expect from these global hotel names.
The gleaming white Westin Grand Bahama Island Our Lucaya Resort, a AAA Four-Diamond resort (check rates), has a modern and undulating design recalling Miami’s Fontainebleau.
The Westin’s 740 rooms and suites feature balconies and the hotel’s cocoon-like Heavenly Beds and fragrant Heavenly Baths. A trio of pools afford sunning in style.
Sheraton Grand Bahama Island Our Lucaya Resort (check rates) is more traditionally Caribbean in design, with white-fenced verandahs edging its 478 comfortable, if not especially luxurious, rooms. One standout feature at this Sheraton is the Sugar Mill Pool, with arched nooks and a quiet area.
The Sheraton and the Westin share two well-tended golf courses, tennis courts, a spa, fitness center, the Isle of Capri casino, and an appealing white-sand beach. Both hotels market to the family demographic, so Honeymoons.about.com lovebirds should not be surprised to spy small, fleshy critters wearing water wings.
Our Lucaya’s all-suites Pelican Bay Resort (check rates) is smaller and more personal, though hardly posh; where its courtyard should be, there’s a parking lot.
Pelican Bay’s rooms and suites—all with bay or ocean views—are comfortable and more homey than stylish, with vaguely nautical wooden furniture, tropical knickknacks, and Italian tile floors that are pleasantly cool to bare feet.
There are two pools—one bar-side for exhibitionists—and a breakfast shack. Pelican Bay’s focal point is its open-air bar and restaurant, Sabor, which faces a picturesque marina. The resort’s owner is Icelandic, and the hotel hosts its share of sunburned rum-sippers from Reykjavik.
Service at Our Lucaya is classically Caribbean in attitude. Expect spirited smiles but not humility.
