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Westin and Sheraton Grand Bahama Island Resort Review
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Westin and Sheraton Grand Bahama Island Resort 
- Address: Sea Horse La., Lucaya, Grand Bahama Island
- Phone: 242/373-1333; 877/687-5822 in U.S.
- Fax: 242/373-8804
- www.ourlucaya.com
- Price range: $$
- Location: Grand Bahama Island
Fodor's Review:
Formerly known as Our Lucaya Beach & Golf Resort, here's where it's always happening, from beach fun to nightlife and gambling. Lucaya's grandest resort spreads three hotels along 7 1/2 acres of soft-sand beach (the entire resort covers 372 acres). The focus here is on dramatic play-area water features and golf. The property has a 38,000-square-foot casino, 11 restaurants, lounges, a children's camp, a first-rate spa, and a shopping complex. Westin is a 100% smoke-free resort and guests are fined $200 if evidence of smoking in a guest room is found.
Sheraton. Geared toward family vacationers, this resort has a water park with a sugar-mill ruins theme, complete with a zero-depth-entry pool and waterslide. The headquarters for children's programs is nearby: a bright, circular building with peekaboo windows for undetected parental spying. The resort's public areas and 511 rooms have a tropical Miami Beach flair. Sheraton offers an all-inclusive plan including alcoholic beverages year-round.
Westin Breakers Cay. This 10-floor high-rise resort curves like a wavy cruise ship between the other two, with oversize rooms and suites done with art deco interpretation, restaurants, a long lap pool, and a small half-moon infinity pool encasing a swim-up bar on the beach.
Westin Lighthouse Pointe. Two-story structures built to replicate Caribbean-style plantation manors house this property's all-water-view rooms and suites. The 21 lanai suites each come with a butler. A half-moon infinity pool clasps the property and visually blends into the ocean beyond. Stay here if you want to be farther from the hustle and bustle.
- Hotel Details: 1,151 rooms, 68 suites
- In-room: safe, refrigerator, Internet.
- In-hotel: 11 restaurants, golf courses, room service, tennis courts, bars, children's programs (ages 3-12), pools, gym, spa, beachfront, water sports, no-smoking rooms.
- Credit Cards: AE, D, DC, MC, V
Member Reviews & Ratings:
Great looking, but with problems....
Posted by jskeels from Los Angeles, CA on 11/19/06
We've traveled quite a bit and enjoy character in a destination, whether the high-end style of St. Lucia and St Barts, or the somewhat gritty local flavor of a Havana, Negril, or Playa del Carmen. This resort (and destination) really filled neither need for us. The Bahamas are, um, boring but pretty. The resort is pretty but with problems. While it does live up to the heavenly-bed/shower/etc. reputation, the facility itself was less than comfortable as the best rooms (over in the Lighthouse Pointe section) have a serious problem with outside noise, in particular a very loud jacuzzi blower pump that is located about 50-100 away, directly between the rooms and the ocean. When people are in the jacuzzi (which is pretty far away, thankfully) you can forget about hearing the ocean, or even relaxing at all if you have your slider open. And if you don't, then what's the point of paying the big bucks for an ocean view?
Also, the facility in general has a temperature problem in all of the public areas -- they are bone-chillingly cold, and the service staff says that they have no power over it at all. We asked several times and they seemed very genuine about it -- one waitress even said that it was a bit of a joke amongst the staff as everyone complains about it.
So we gave up and caught a flight to Playa del Carmen to finish out our trip.
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