Bahamas

Pink Sands Resort

Price per night from$897.60

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (USD897.60), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Bahamian rhapsody

Setting

Blush-hued beach

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Leave the rose-tinted sunglasses at home – Pink Sands Resort is the real tropical-paradise deal on Harbour Island’s coral-tinged beach. This cluster of coastal-chic residences (some snuggled right up to the famed shoreline) has been decked out with discerning castaways in mind, each fronted by a frangipani-framed terrace. Sunrise yoga, spiced-rum cocktails by the oceanside pool, and sailing to nearby deserted isles form the blueprint for a Bahamian glow-up here – try it, and you’ll be tickled pink.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

32 standalone cottages, villas and residences.

Check–Out

Noon. Check-in is at 3pm, but both are flexible, subject to availability and an extra charge.

More details

Rates exclude breakfast, but à la carte options are available to order from Blue Bar & Kitchen from $18.

Also

The dispersed settings of the cottages and villas and uneven pathways unfortunately make the resort unsuitable for guests with limited mobility.

At the hotel

Beach palapas, golf cart rental, watersports equipment to hire, bicycles to borrow, tennis and pickleball courts, billiards room, boutique and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: air-conditioning, smart TV, minibar, coffee machine, tea-making kit, bathrobes, slippers and Molton Brown bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Tropical palms and flowering hibiscus give the Garden View Cottages a back-to-nature feel, but we want to see, hear, and smell the Atlantic, making any of the ocean-view rooms our top pick. Families and friends can stretch out in the Four Bedroom Ocean View Villa, which has its own pool and a vast terrace made for drifting off to the sound of the waves.

Poolside

Just a few sandy steps from rolling Atlantic waves, the resort’s oceanfront pool (open daily from 7.30am to 7pm) is lined with sunloungers and coral-colored parasols – to match the shoreline, of course. Spicy mango margaritas and other castaway-style cocktails come courtesy of the beachside bar, just across the decking from the pool area.

Spa

Wellness at Pink Sands Resort is all about lulling your body into the island’s relaxed rhythm, aided by the resident therapist and yoga instructor. Massages and coconut body scrubs can be enjoyed poolside, in your cottage or in the coastal treatment room. Daily sunrise beach yoga sessions are included in your room rate, and private classes and guided meditation workshops are available on request.

Packing tips

Though it’s tempting to spend most of your time horizontal here, it’s worth packing some activewear for impromptu pickleball games and cycling into Dunmore Town.

Also

If you want to catch Pink Sands Beach at its most vibrant, plan an early morning stroll (or swim). It’s thought that the sand becomes a paler pink throughout the day, before turning purple-tinged at dusk.

Pet‐friendly

Well-behaved dogs (weighing under 50 pounds) are welcome to stay for a fee of $250. See more pet-friendly hotels in Bahamas.

Children

Rollaways and cribs can be added to any room, and babysitters can be booked through reception. Water babies will be most in their element here, able to swim and snorkel around the island.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Any of the outdoor tables – on sun-drenched evenings, the Atlantic breeze on your face takes some beating.

Dress Code

Channel hot-to-yacht by pairing smart linens and slacks with boat shoes or glammed-up sandals.

Hotel restaurant

Named after the family who founded the resort in 1951, Malcolm 51 is a fine-dining restaurant that’s partially open to the ocean elements. Alfresco seating clusters around a koi fish pond, which leads onto a lantern-lit terrace set beneath swaying palms. The menu blends island classics like coconut conch soup and smoked octopus with an impressive sushi bar, putting local fish front and center. Dessert-wise, deciding between the key lime curd and caramelized pineapple cake is practically impossible, so we suggest simply ordering both.

Hotel bar

Kicking back on a sought-after slice of pink sand, Blue Bar & Kitchen keeps barefoot beach-dwellers refreshed throughout the day. Take a breakfast bowl topped with toasted coconut, homemade granola, watermelon and rum-soaked raisins to your sunlounger, or opt for a savory day-starter like lobster benedict dressed with red lumpfish caviar. Light, island-hailing bites make the rounds from midday, including grilled mahi-mahi sandwiches, tempura fish tacos, and beer-battered local conch. Thirst-quenchers are all suitably tropical too; the Goombay Smashes go heavy on the spiced rum, and the ginger mojitos are served with a chunk of caramelized pineapple and fresh mint.

Last orders

Breakfast is from 7.30am to 11am, weekend brunch from 7.30am to 5pm, lunch from noon to 5pm, and dinner from 6pm to 9pm.

Room service

You can order in-room snacks during kitchen hours.

Location

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Address
Pink Sands Resort
G938+R77 Chapel Street
Dunmore Town
Bahamas

Pink Sands Resort lies on Harbour Island’s east coast, towards the end of Chapel Street closest to Pink Sands Beach.

Planes

The closest airport is on North Eleuthera, a 20-minute transfer (by car and boat) from Harbour Island. There are direct flights from US hubs like Miami and Florida, as well as the Bahamian capital, Nassau.

Automobiles

Getting around the island is best done by golf cart; daily rentals are available at the resort, and there’s private parking outside each cottage and villa.

Other

Regular water taxis run from North Eleuthera’s dock to Harbour Island, and the scenic crossing takes just 10 minutes.

Worth getting out of bed for

The resort shares the island’s east coast with the three-mile Pink Sands Beach, so you can tick that off the bucket (and spades) list without leaving base. Pink Sands Resort is in touch with a dedicated experiences and excursions concierge, Conch & Coconut, to organize just about every island activity under the Caribbean sun. Options include horseback riding, kayaking, paddleboarding, snorkeling, scuba diving, fishing and sunset cruises. Charter a boat for the day and hop over to the dinky, deserted Man Island to take in neighboring Eleuthera from its best angle, swim with sea turtles in the crystal-clear waters of Bottom Harbour, and meet the water-loving wild pigs over on Meek’s Patch Island. And landlubbers, the picket-fenced, pastel-painted cottages of Dunmore Town are a breezy five-minute pedal away on the hotel’s pink bicycles.

Local restaurants

You’ll need to reserve ahead of time (and dress accordingly) for dinner at The Dunmore, a sophisticated spot for local lobster tail, seafood pepper pots, stone crab claws, and mango chutney-topped grouper. Sunsets Restaurant at Romora Bay is a more laidback affair, with live music right on the waterfront – they’ll even deliver their famous reef sandwiches and conch fritters directly to your boat. There’s more locally caught shellfish – and an excellent coconut chicken curry – over at The Landing (designed by India Hicks), where you can watch boats bob across the marina from your candlelit, gold-pineapple-topped table.

Local cafés

Look out for the pineapple-decorated picket fence of Arthur’s Bakery on Crown and Dunmore Street – this pink-painted café dishes up fêted banana pancakes on the island and the french toast, made with their own cinnamon raisin bread, is worth saving room for, too. Cocoa Coffee House is another cheery brunch spot (this time, with a sunshine-yellow façade) with Nassau-roasted coffee beans and vegan protein-packed smoothies on the health-focused menu.

Local bars

A bayside bar known for its reggae beats, Beyond the Reef is where locals go to let loose. The Vic Hum Club is an island icon – and not just for housing the largest coconut ever grown in the Bahamas. Both its rum-based cocktails and sports memorabilia have won it loyal fans; the roofless rear section is a basketball court by day and a dance floor after dark.

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this wave-lapped resort on Harbour Island and unpacked their sand-dusted straw bags and shell-studded swimwear, a full account of their blissful barefoot break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Pink Sands Resort in the Bahamas…

On a tiny tropical island that’s home to more golf carts than cars, and which you can comfortably circle in 20 minutes, Pink Sands Resort is an oceanfront outpost worth the lengthy land-and-sea journey to reach. Wide Atlantic views and color-shifting sands are reward enough – we pinky promise – but further incentives lie in the steps-from-the-ocean pool, and hibiscus-scented grounds. The resort has grown (and had a 21st-century glow-up) since its origins as a holiday cottage for the Malcolm family back in the Fifties, but each residence still feels like a little world of its own – and encourages barefoot living at every opportunity. Whether it’s watching the waves roll onto shore from your terrace, or snaffling lobster club sandwiches down at the beach bar, reasons to don your boat shoes (or indeed, anything more than your swimwear) are refreshingly few and far between.

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