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WEST END, GB \u2013 Still recognised as the official capital of Grand Bahama Island, the settlement of West End can boast of having a new resort, with the opening of the Blue Marlin Cove Resort and Marina at Bootle Bay on Thursday.<\/p>\nWEST END, GB \u2013 Still recognised as the official capital of Grand Bahama Island, the settlement of West End can boast of having a new resort, with the opening of the Blue Marlin Cove Resort and Marina at Bootle Bay on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Built originally as a 30 condominium unit, the upscale renovated property now boasts some 30 bedrooms 2 \u00bd bathroom suites, a private marina with 30 slips, swimming pool and spa, restaurant, recreation centre and conference space.<\/p>\n
The capital investment in the resort by the American owners, Joe Rieger and Frank Levy is said to be around $10 million.<\/p>\n
The boutique hotel will cater to a mixture of guests including fishing and boating enthusiasts, businessmen, locals and others looking for a relaxing atmosphere in a turn key facility whose rooms are tastefully decorated and equipped with all the amenities.<\/p>\n
The facility will also be marketed as a high tech and comfortable location where busy executives can unwind or attend conventions and enhance their professional skills through the use of distance learning technology, the Prime Minister pointed out.<\/p>\n
The resort will continue the legacy left by the late Bonefish Foley, an outstanding Bahamian fisherman who resided at West End and catered to a number of distinguished world leaders and visiting guests and businesspersons.<\/p>\n
An important feature of the resort’s annual calendar of events will be the Annual Bonefish Foley Inshore and Offshore Fishing Tournament.<\/p>\n
Likewise the resort will be marketed as Grand Bahama\u2019s premier bone-fishing centre and management has hired Tommy and Carl Rolle, better known as the “Bonefish Foley Sons” to begin that venture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Americans, Joe Rieger and Frank Levy have invested around $10 million to renovate and open the Blue Marlin Cove Resort and Marina at Bootle Bay, West End, Grand Bahama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[153,81,229,33,73],"class_list":["post-25921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-business-2","tag-grand-bahama","tag-resorts","tag-tourism","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}