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"For a full service resort, I like Pink Sands, Harbour Island's original fashionable hotel, owned by record producer Chris Blackwell. He has hotels in Miami, but he understands the pace of island life, illustrated by his company Island Outpost's highly successful properties on Jamaica (Strawberry Hill and Jake's among others). "

"Breakfast can take forever while the smiling staff get round to remembering what you asked for. But this is the real Caribbean. Its managers, Clemens and Nancy Merveldt, are charming and clearly friends with most of their guests."

"The cottages, created by Biba designer Barbara Hulanicki, are large and full of character, painted in gingerbread-house pinks, yellows and sky-blues. Interiors are equally ecletically coloured: satuated lilacs, bleached Buddhist oranges and dusky, powdery reds. In the main restaurant and bar, outsize Indonesian teak beds are loaded with plump Indidan cushions and mirror-work textiles while the open-air design is punctuated by carved Balinese door frames. Moroccan-style lanterns hang from trees."

Courtesy Condé Nast Traveller Magazine