It’s the hotel eye-catching enough for a Bond film and a favourite of the jet-set Hollywood crowd – and it’s now looking hotter than ever. And surely a contender for most glamorous hotel in the Caribbean.
Welcome to The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas, which was famously used as a filming location in 2006’s Casino Royale.
In the movie, we see Daniel Craig’s James Bond greeted by a valet who says, ‘Good day sir, and welcome to the Ocean Club,’ as the spy pulls up outside the property in his car.
Bond then walks through the hotel’s Versailles Gardens, with the Versailles Pool in the background, and heads for the Library Bar, where he plays a game of poker against the film’s villains Alex Demitrios and Le Chiffre, resulting in him winning Demitrios’s Aston Martin before seducing his wife. Of course.
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It’s now known as the Martini Bar, in homage to Bond ordering his first ‘shaken, not stirred’ drink of the film there, and received a refresh at the end of 2024, updated with new furnishings, art and decor that ‘draw inspiration from the lush tropical landscape beyond the beautiful Palladian windows’.
Principal interior designer Joanna Kerr said: ‘To add a touch of intrigue, we paid homage to the iconic Casino Royale film by infusing the space with hints of glamour, sophistication, and a sense of adventure.
The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas, is eye-catching enough for a Bond film and a favourite of the jet-set Hollywood crowd – and it’s now looking hotter than ever. And surely a contender for most glamorous hotel in the Caribbean
James Bond, played by Daniel Craig, orders his first ‘shaken, not stirred’ drink of 2006’s Casino Royale in Ocean Club’s bar (left), and also plays a game of poker there (pictured right)
The bar (pictured) is now known as the Martini Bar, in homage to Bond, and received a refresh at the end of 2024
‘This will be a comfortable oasis where guests will be invited to unwind with a martini and enjoy the sweeping views of the azure sea, creating a sense of serenity.’
The bar’s redesign is bound to light up a few social media feeds and prove enticing to the hotel’s celebrity clientele.
Famous types have been visiting the property since it was first opened as The Ocean Club at Paradise Island by supermarket heir Huntington Hartford in 1962 – the late actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, five United States senators, and various European royals attended the launch party.
And on May 29, 1998, supermodel Cindy Crawford chose to have her wedding to businessman Rande Gerber at the hotel.
The Ocean Club has changed hands many times over the years, but that hasn’t stopped the likes of Beyonce and Jay-Z, Rihanna, and David and Victoria Beckham from adding their names to the guest list.
No doubt, these A-listers would have been seduced by the privacy of the resort’s beachfront villas, which have three or four bedrooms each and their own infinity pools looking out onto the Atlantic Ocean.
There are three pools dotted about the resort, including an oceanfront infinity pool (pictured)
The hotel’s adults-only Versailles Pool (pictured left) appeared in the background of Casino Royale (right)
Pictured is The Ocean Club’s indoor-outdoor oceanside restaurant, Dune by Jean-Georges, serving dishes including lobster with truffle butter, tuna tartare and caviar
The Ocean Club has beachfront villas, bungalows with private plunge pools, as well as rooms and suites across two wings, the Hartford Wing and the Crescent Wing – all of which were refurbished after Four Seasons took over management from One&Only in 2017
The Ocean Club also has two two-bedroom bungalows with private plunge pools, as well as rooms and suites across two wings, the Hartford Wing and the Crescent Wing – all of which were refurbished after Four Seasons took over management from One&Only in 2017.
Every room of the Crescent Wing has a terrace or balcony with a sea view, complete with a daybed outside, and the suites are made up of a living room, bedroom, powder room, and bathroom, including an oversized shower and jetted, deep-soaking bathtub.
There are also three pools dotted about the resort, including an oceanfront infinity pool, the Family Lagoon Pool, and the adult-only Versailles Pool – which Bond walked past in Casino Royale – plus six tennis courts and an 18-hole golf course.
Other A-lister baiting features include a fitness centre, an eight-treatment-room spa, and an indoor-outdoor oceanside restaurant, Dune by Jean-Georges, serving dishes including lobster with truffle butter, tuna tartare and caviar.
It’s certainly a hotel fit for a celebrity!
All the resort’s beachfront villas have three or four bedrooms each and their own infinity pools looking out onto the Atlantic Ocean (pictured)
The suites are made up of a living room, bedroom, powder room, and bathroom with a deep-soaking bathtub (pictured)
There’s no doubt that The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas is a hotel fit for a celebrity