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Condé Nast Traveler USA

We've spent the last 12 months sleeping, eating, and sailing our way around the globe in order to bring you the 29th edition of the Hot List, our carefully curated annual collection of the best new (and reborn) hotels, restaurants, and cruise ships in the world, and we had a ton of fun doing it. The through line of this year’s list is joy—something we could all use a little more of in our lives. These are the 2025 Hot List winners.

Condé Nast traveler USA

Vote for The Potlatch Club in the 2025 Condé Nast Traveler US Readers’ Choice Awards! We’re delighted to announce that the Potlatch Club has been nominated in the Hotels category with a draw for the chance to win a memorable voyage for two. Voting closes on June 30^th 2025 with results released on Wednesday October 1^st 2025.

Condé Nast Traveller UK

Vote for The Potlatch Club in the 2025 Condé Nast Traveller UK Readers’ Choice Awards! We’re delighted to announce that the Potlatch Club has been nominated in the Hotels category in the UK with a draw for the chance to win a memorable voyage for two. Voting closes on June 30^th 2025 with results released on Wednesday October 1^st 2025.

Travel + Leisure

Travel+Leisure’s Best New Resorts Around the World 2025. When only an international escape will do these 26 properties – from a jungle-meets-beach paradise in Madagascar to a meticulously renovated beach club on Eleuthera, Bahamas – answer the call.

Esquire

Don’t you ever wish you had a fabulous best friend with a 12-acre property right on the nicest spit of pink-sand beach you’ve ever seen? I’ve got something better: the Potlatch Club. Its backstory is wild. The property was first built in 1923 as a private residence before being purchased in the ’50s by a trio of socialites who wanted it as an escape for global jet-setters.

Afar

A group of East Coast socialites opened the Potlatch Club in 1967, and soon after that, its pink-sand shores welcomed celebrities such as Paul McCartney, who wrote “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window” while honeymooning here.

The New York Post

Lazing about the palm-planted oceanfront grounds of the Bahamas’ reborn Potlatch Club — the first luxury hotel to open on the long, skinny island of Eleuthera in a decade — it’s hard to believe that just a few years ago, the place looked like Angkor Wat.

The Times

The Bahamian island of Eleuthera might only be a sliver of land - 110 miles long and 1 mile wide - but with 135 pristine beaches just an hour’s flight from Miami, it’s a magnet for the glitterati: a place where Lenny Kravitz and Mariah Carey walk barefoot along the beach from their homes, and where there are so few cars there’s not one traffic light on the entire island...

New York Times

Once visited by Greta Garbo and Paul McCartney - who penned some lyrics for the Beatles on Potlatch Club notepaper - this intimate property on the pink sands of Eleuthera slipped into neglect decades ago. Today it's come back to life as a boutique hotel after a seven-year renovation. There are just 11 accommodations, including suites, cottages and villas, beyond which verandas and pavilions beckon. And you don't have to be a star to check in.

National Geographic

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Beach Sanctuary Winner: The Potlatch Club, Bahamas
Elizbeth Taylor holidayed at The Potlatch Club, Greta Garbo felt the pink sand between her toes here and, in 1969 a honeymooning Paul McCartney wrote Beatles songs on the hotel notepaper.

British Vogue

On my first afternoon at The Potlatch Club, I swam in the ocean until my fingers pruned and my eyes were rimmed red from salt, emerging from the water like a barnacle that had washed ashore. I collapsed onto a sun lounger, reviving myself with sips of homemade iced ginger tea; just as I felt myself dozing off, a pod of dolphins appeared, splashing in the shallow waters not 10 feet away from shore.

Davey Awards

New York, NY (October 22, 2024) - Winners of the 20th Annual Davey Awards have been announced by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), with Nucleus winning another Silver for its website for The Potlatch Club.

W3 Awards

New York, NY – 2 October 2024

The winners of the 19th Annual w3 Awards were announced by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) and amongst thousands of entries from around the world Nucleus won Silver for its website for The Potlatch Club, Bahamas.

Nuvo

The 11-room resort The Potlatch Club just opened its doors last month, but scroll through the Bahamian resort’s Instagram page and you’ll see an eight-year photographic love story dedicated to the historic property. In the comments, guests of days long past recall playing checkers on the clubhouse’s black-and-white floors or swimming in its pools...

TIME

In 2016, business partners Bruce Loshusan and Hans Febles discovered the unexpected during a casual beach walk along Eleuthera’s deserted blush pink sands: an abandoned boutique estate with a storied, glamorous past. Known as The Potlatch Club in its mid-20th-century heyday, the exclusive Bahamian hideaway lured East Coast socialites, silver screen icons such as Greta Garbo...

Caribbean Journal

The pink sand, the historic cottages, the chic beach bars and luxe villas. You may be thinking of Harbour Island. But this is another increasingly hip destination in The Bahamas: Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera, which just welcomed a brand-new boutique hotel. The area in central Eleuthera, is the home of the recently-debuted, dramatically transformed Potlatch Club.

Financial Times

A Bahamian Belle Reborn. In the late 1960's and '70's Eleuthera's Potlatch Club was a magnet for eccentric New York Socialites, European Royals, Hollywood A-listers along the lines of Greta Garbo, and the occasional rock star. After a seven-year restoration, the Potlatch Club is back open, and billing itself as Eleuthera's first proper luxury boutique hotel...

Luxury Explorer

When we first visited The Potlatch Club on the ruggedly beautiful Caribbean island of Eleuthera in November 2023, we knew we had glimpsed something special, but returning seven months later, what we found exceeded our already high expectations. If you are looking for somewhere special, a few days at The Potlatch Club leaves you with a true tropical tingle...

Conde Nast Traveller

Travelers who want to feel like they’re summering at a friend’s beachfront estate will thoroughly appreciate the laid-back vibe of The Potlatch Club. The lush property has only 11 keys on 12 acres, a seamless service team—led by general manager Kezang Dorji—who’ve worked together for more than 20 years, and a stretch of beach that you and your loved ones will likely have all to yourselves.

Boutique Hotel News

Owners Bruce Loshusan and Hans Febles acquired the dilapidated property in 2016. The property fell into disrepair in the 1980s. In the 1960s and 70s, The Potlatch Club was popular with socialites, hosting Greta Garbo, Richard Widmark, Raymond Burr, and Rita Gam. In 1969,Paul McCartney honeymooned at the hotel with his first wife Linda.

Hotel Designs

The Potlatch Club, the first truly luxury boutique hotel on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas, has opened its doors after an extensive restoration. Eleuthera is an island escape known for its wild, pristine beauty and 135 empty beaches. The secluded hideaway has only 11 keys in a former private home, popular with New York socialites in the 1960s and 70s.