Are there any “can’t miss” type things to do there? My wife has 100,000 Radisson gold points that we’ve decided to use up. Options sure do open up for vacations when the hotel is nearly free. So we’re packin’ up the kid, shipping of the dog to grandmas, and heading down in March. All I know for sure is that we’re going to spend 3 nights at the Raddison.
I am looking into a bareboat charter for a day, but it looks like most require a week.
My wife wants to do the swim with the dolphins thing at the blue lagoon.
It would be nice to hit one of the outer islands to get away from the crowds.
Will a 5 year old go insane?
Sweet - I love the Bahamas. Where’s the Raddison? Is that on Nassau Island?
Yep. Cable beach. But I’m not going to limit myself to just Nassau.
Did you have any favorite bars? Resturants?
None that the Bahamian God “Kalik” will allow me to recall. Kalik is a vengeful god.
Every time we tied up in Nassau, it was at the cruise ship piers. We’d wander the area, do the tourist thing with local bars and shops, and without fail we would end up at Paradise Island. Mostly, we’d hang at the resort beach by day, and gamble in the casino by night.
I’ve been to Freeport quite a few times, but it was more of an industrial/commercial port area as I recall. We never spent much time there.
I once hung out at a local bar on Bimini, and that was pretty neat. It was a small town without many (any?) tourists and the best spot for really capturing the “local flavor”.
My *favorite *time was when we anchored just off some uninhabited island, and hung out for the day. I wish I could remember which island it was; I think it was on the Southwest corner of the Grand Bahama Bank. The island was no bigger than a city block, and there was an old cannon buried in the sand from (presumedly) a shipwreck long ago. Some of the guys spent the whole afternoon trying to “steal” the cannon - including the Captain. They never got it out.
But there’s nothing quite like the peace and tranquility of a tiny sand island with nothing but warm blue skies and crystal clear blue water as far as the eye can see in all directions. And the noise - there wasn’t any. The water was still, there was no wind. The silence was almost deafening.
That’s a life I could get used to.