Baha Mar Postpones Debut until May

The Baha Mar casino resort in the Bahamas has pushed back its opening for at least the third time and won’t open until at least May.

Last week, the resort said that some of the rooms at the 1,000-room Baha Mar Casino & Hotel — as well as public spaces at the SLS Lux, Rosewood and Grand Hyatt hotels — would open March 27. It won’t meet that deadline.

Now, four new hotels totaling more than 2,200 rooms are scheduled to open in early May, Baha Mar said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Baha Mar announced that it would begin a paced opening beginning March 27 and culminating in its grand opening scheduled for early May,” the resort said. “Subsequently, it has become clear that the contractor has not completed the work with an attention to detail consistent with Baha Mar standards of excellence.”

The $3.5 billion project, which broke ground in Nassau’s Cable Beach area in February 2011, had originally been scheduled to open to the public by the end of 2014. By last summer, Baha Mar had pushed back the opening to this spring.

A fifth hotel at the resort, the 694-room Melia at Baha Mar (a former Sheraton) is undergoing a $19 million renovation. The property, which will be Baha Mar’s only all-inclusive resort, is scheduled to be open early next year.

Source: Travel Weekly