Bahamas

3* Compass Point

Less than an hour's flight from the coast of Florida, the 700 plus islands of the Bahamas stretch across 100,000 square miles of the Atlantic. On the Out Islands, everything except Grand Bahama and New Providence, the pace is slow and easy...yours may be the only footprints you see in the sand. Houses in the towns are often New-England style with clapboard painted in fading tropical colours and the inhabitants enjoy their reputation as the "friendly people". For a little more activity Nassau, the capital, has shops, nightclubs, fancy casinos and lots of tourist attractions. But in the Bahamas the brilliantly coloured sea is the main attraction and it is what life revolves around. Stretches of deserted beach, some of the world's great barrier reefs, miles of flats for bone-fishing and waters teeming with game-fish are just a few of the things which draw people here year after year.

Compass Point is located on 1.5 oceanfront acres four miles west of Cable Beach. It is just eight minutes from the Nassau International Airport with hourly flights from Miami or Ft. Lauderdale and many flights daily from major international cities. The resort is convenient to the excitement of downtown Nassau and Paradise Island, both known for casinos, nightclubs and duty-free shopping. Hailed as a "work of art" by Travel Weekly, Compass Point is a collection of octagonal huts and cottages brightly painted in kid's-crayon-box colours-- lavender, teal, blue, tangerine, and pink and is adjacent to famous Love Beach. The hotel is a spot for guests to relax and is often frequented by celebrities visiting The Bahamas. Opposite the hotel is the renown Compass Point Recording Studio, which has hosted the likes of the Rolling Stones, Robert Palmer, Bob Marley and Lenny Kravitz.

There accommodations are in studio, and one and two-bedroom huts and cottages. All have private decks facing the ocean and louvered windows to catch the ocean breezes. The hand-crafted interiors of each unit accent natural woods with batik fabrics and have either an in-room refrigerator or full open-air kitchen plus CD players and cable TV/VCR.
Swimming at the resort's private cove, watersports, dive shop, freshwater pool, ocean-side restaurant, room service, CD/video library and massage services are just some of the amenities available.

The critically acclaimed restaurant at Compass Point serves European and American cuisine with Caribbean flare and continues to be a hot spot for hotel guests, island visitors and local residents alike. It is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.