Bahamas trip dos and don'ts? Recommendations?

Don'ts: Go swimming.

It's Shark Week, muthafuckahs!

 

You may have a visitor by the end of the week. She goes by Emily.

 

Always wanted to go to Atlantis, but I've found it's far, far cheaper to pick an all-inclusive somewhere else. Food and drink prices at Atlantis are outrageous. $9 hot dogs? Nah. I'll pass.

 

Atlantis is very expensive but the comp offers are usually good. My latest offer is to travel up to four times and get four free nights as well as $150 a day in food. Sonner you are right, the place is beautiful but it isn't worth the price. I wouldn't go back if I wasn't comped.

 

Sonner has turned into a tropical whore. I'm jealous.

 

I wish. I'm definitely in the pro-All-Inclusive crowd now, though. It's good because I hate carrying shit. The all-inclusive packages suit my lazy lifestyle. Leave the wallet in the room and carry just a few bucks for tipping the fine folks who serve my lazy ass all day with drinks I'd have to pay God knows how much for at any other non-all-inclusive resort. That $100 dinner at the Brazilian Steakhouse? FREE!

Kinda pisses me off because I've always wanted to try Atlantis. Zippy chance I ever do, though.

 

Went to Nassau 20-odd years ago and hated every minute of it. Atlantis wasn't there then and we didn't have the bucks to stay at Cable Beach or Paradise Island so we had a hotel right in town near Bay St. Found the whole city to be enormously overpriced, the restaurants to be mediocre and as somebody else mentioned the area off the main drag was more than a little sketchy. We rented scooters too and we were almost killed by the lunatic drivers.

My brother got married at Sandals there and raved about it.

 

Yeah. The scooters are a death trap. Stay far, far away.

 

It's so long ago it might not be the case anymore, but what caught me in the casinos there was (at least blackjack), you do NOT touch your cards. Not even a fingertip. That was the case at Paradise Island, at least, and I was severely admonished a couple of times. Again, might not be true anymore.

 

That's pretty much every casino.

 

Bump...
Sitting at the Airport at Nassau waiting on my flight to Atlanta ...

Spent six days at Atlantis and three would have been plenty. I was water-slid out after four days. I hate standing in line, luckily it rained two days and people bolted when the rain hit so I had run of the place for several hours.
I was also kind of disappointed there was no Hurricane Emily.

Man shit is expensive at the resort. Outside the resort, prices weren't bad. The place imports 85 percent of its food, so it stands to reason things will cost a little more, but Atlantis was fucking ridiculous! $6.50 a beer! $40 for a pizza! Even the Starbucks and Tortuga stores were three of four bucks more than the stores off the property.
Away from the resort you could get beer from $4 to $2.50 ... I bought a case of Kalik ($40) at a duty free store in town and kept on ice in my room.
As stated, Atlantis is HUGE. I prolly walked two miles a day to the water slides and to and from my room. But the place was very kid friendly, family-oriented ... If you have the money.

The yachts at the place were amazing - $7 a foot per day to dock for yachts the size of my house and yard!


I saw Patrick Ewing in the casino Thursday night.

Food was pretty underwelhming. The Poopdeck was good. Had a nice lunch at a Mediterranean Cafe in the shopping district - until my wife got food poisoning and spent the next 30 hours on the bed and toilet.

The natives were very nice. Hell everyone was pretty friendly.

Son of a bitch there is a lot of poor people.. The Bahamas and West Virginia have a lot in common; natives working for the man.

 

What tower did you stay in? The resort is massive. Last time I went I was at The Cove which has it's own bar area and had outdoor tables but it was too far from the real casino.