How a Legendary Nassau Lodge Turned one of many Caribbean’s Finest New Luxurious Resorts

If motels may very well be royal, The British Colonial can be a Queen.  With 288 visitor rooms (25 suites) it’s not the most important resort in Nassau. But it surely’s actually majestic. 

You may really feel it as quickly as you enter the spectacular foyer and see the spectacular grand staircase and ornate ceiling. As somebody who has been staying at this resort for many years, it was dramatic.

In brief, there isn’t a place prefer it within the Caribbean. When you love motels, this place will make you swoon. This resort is particular, and it was after I stayed right here a number of weeks in the past.  It’s not simply the wonder, element and tangible historical past, it’s additionally the good workers and repair, the placement and Nassau itself. The British Colonial is a necessary a part of the renaissance of downtown Nassau.

There’s a new boardwalk connecting the cruise port to this a part of city and that has made a huge impact. There are new outlets, eating places and points of interest and the British Colonial is correct in the course of it — and also you get entry to one of many Caribbean’s greatest waterparks proper subsequent door.

Centuries in the past, the positioning the place the British Colonial sits was a navy fort guarding Nassau Harbour.

Nothing got here into or out of Nassau with getting by this spot. The identical factor remains to be true at present. Everybody who visits Nassau or lives in Nassau is drawn right here. The British Colonial is a central level and common assembly spot for locals, vacationers and enterprise vacationers and is extraordinarily well-liked for weddings, occasions and conferences.   

There may be 18,000 sq. toes of indoor and out of doors assembly house.  The resort is downtown and inside strolling distance to every little thing —  the white-sand seashore is correct out the again door. 

There’s a lovely pool deck and a tremendous seashore with full service, chairs, towels, umbrellas, and naturally, The Crimson Pearl Grill and seashore bar.  It’s the sort of place you’ll need to keep all day. Watching the cruise ships come and go is nice leisure and because the solar goes down, the harbor lights up and also you simply stroll as much as one the resort’s nice eating places like Woodes Rogers Tavern, The Mahogany Membership or the Sakana Noodle and Sushi Bar.

This resort manages to tug off a uncommon feat: it’s each fully new and historic on the identical time.  The resort went by a significant renovation and reopened in December 2023.

The renovations have been in depth  and are very spectacular. The resort and the rooms really feel fully new.  The pool deck and seashore are new. It’s a glowing place.

However we do love historical past, too.  Henry Flagler, builder of the Breakers in Palm Seaside purchased this resort website in 1900. He opened an enormous resort in 1901 and it operated for 20 some years till it burned down in 1922.

The resort was ultimately rebuilt and the rebuilt once more, purchased and offered a number of occasions.

What the British Colonial is at present in some ways shares no resemblance with the British Colonial of even simply 10 years in the past.

It has been reworked and bolstered, respectful of the previous and intensely conscious of what at present’s vacationers want and need. 

It’s one of the vital historic motels within the Caribbean. But it surely’s additionally among the best new motels within the Caribbean in fairly a very long time.

It’s additionally a unbelievable deal: charges on the British Colonial begin at $160 per night time proper now.

You may e book now on the British Colonial Nassau.