OLD DOLPHIN HOTEL, NASSAU - FAY REMINISCES!

 

Fay Knowles reminisces about the Dolphin Hotel, the first place she stayed in when she arrived in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1965. 

She arrived in Nassau in the dark of the night after travelling from Toronto, Canada, where she had been working, down to Miami on a Greyhound coach and flying across to Nassau.

She sat at the hotel bar, feeling very much the world traveller, then retired to her hotel room, where she was disappointed to hear the BBC news on the radio! She had thought she was in a foreign country.

The next morning she pulled back the drapes and when she saw the bright sunny day, palm trees and white beach across the road, and heard the babble of voices from locals, she realized she really was in a foreign country!

Operating during the mid-20th century, the original Nassau Dolphin Hotel was a popular beach-facing resort located on the corner of Nassau Street and West Bay Street.

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THE DEMISE OF THE MELIA NASSAU BEACH HOTEL!

 

The Melia Nassau Beach Hotel at Cable Beach is being demolished! I read it was originally opened in 1983 and I know it has changed hands/names since then a few times. The Baha Mar Resort currently owns it, but I read an article in The Nassau Guardian that stated Baha Mar have plans for a more modern replacement.

I have happy memories of the Melia. In 2016, I met in Starbucks, Melia Nassau Beach Resort, with six established local authors for a chat about writing and publishing. Here’s a link to the article I wrote at the time, that appeared in The Tribune:

TRIBUNE ARTICLE

 

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