The staging of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Relays in The Bahamas translated to excellent occupancy levels for the month of May for the Sandyport Beaches Resort and Hotel.
Vernon Moss, the hotel's general manager, said that this has been a record-breaking May week for the resort and thanked the IAAF for organizing such a tremendous event.
"We always do very well and our occupancy has continued to rise over the years, in fact we are having an excellent year so far with five percent year-on-year growth in occupancy. Ian Hutchinson of the IAAF Local Organizing Committee came down to see us and booked all our available rooms for the international race officials and the working Freeport media team, which translated to a 100-percent occupancy for four nights the week of the relays. We would really like to thank the IAAF for bringing such an excellent international event to Nassau. I just wish I had more rooms to sell because we could have filled them."
Moss said that several of the race officials then extended their stay for a further few days privately.
The New York Times travel section on March 13 recommended Sandyport Beaches Resort and Hotel as a "serene" place to stay when in Nassau.
Sandyport Beaches Resort and Hotel's colonial-style villas house 72 studio rooms and suites located between the lagoon beach and the ocean-side Sandyport beach on West Bay Street, near canal-front residences and the commercial center of Sandyport Marina Village.
The Sandyport resort recently won the coveted RCI Gold Crown Resort Award, the highest of the RCI designations as determined by industry expert evaluations and vacationers' comments. It is one of only three resorts in The Bahamas, and a select number worldwide, to meet RCI's requirements for this recognition.

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