A Storied Escape
Coral Sands Inn & Cottages was founded in 1968 — the lovechild of former Hollywood actor and fighter pilot Brett King and his wife Sharon.
In the 60s, the enterprising movie star and his wife set out to swap the glitter of showbiz for the quiet bliss of the Bahamas. Finding solace in the laid-back spirit of Harbour Island and its warm-to-touch coral sands — they never went back. Instead, they created a sprawling escape to celebrate the miraculous Bahamian spirit and landscape.
Where Sands Are Coral
When your water taxi from the Eleuthera airport moors in Dunmore Town, a golf cart will chauffeur you up the hill, past bubblegum pink clapboard houses, until it takes a right at the yellow chapel. On Chapel Street, the island greets you with scents of Bahamian hibiscus. Along the way, you’ll likely encounter a hen and her chicks. The breeze is warm. You’ve arrived at Coral Sands.
"Old movie stars don't fade away. They slip off to little known islands and run hotels." — Horace Sutton for The Gazette, 1978
Past the infinity pool and the beach club — the sound of laughter and clinking bottles of Kalik — down the meandering paths of vining succulents, the famed coral sands await you. The sands origins are stuff of legend or science or both — either the microscopic shells of coral-dwelling Foraminifera, or the fallout of a battle between sky and sea spirits — and they are as surreal as you imagine them to be. One thing’s for sure: Time slows down. Bliss takes over.
