andysnovel
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I just got back from spending a week at the Harborside Resort at Atlantis, Bahamas. Here are my recommends while they are still fresh in my head.......
1 Sandra's Taxi/Tour Service 242-525-9532 $105 roundtrip for the 4 of us with suitcases from Nass Airport to Harborside Resort. Delightful family owned and run business. We also used them for supermarket/liquor store shopping and they provided us a 3 hour tour as well. They were always prompt, on time and knew their stuff and treated you like part of their family.
2 Montagu Gardens Restaurant They provide free taxi service, to and from Harborside to their family run restaurant just outside of Atlantis. The fish dinners were fresh and moderately priced, which is a plus for this expensive part of the world. The service was friendly, not rushed and the meals came with wonderfully baked herb breads with a complete meal, salad and veggies and baked potatoes etc. Go to front desk and they will set it up for you, to be picked up. We went on a Saturday Night and saw a live wedding going on, music and dancing and all, it was quite fun.
3 do not go from 9/1 thru most of November, all the casual restaurants were closed, Carmines, Murray's, Virgils, Bimini Road etc. The Lazy River Ride was closed, which really bummed me out. My first visit was in January, much, much better experience as far as moderately priced places to eat.
4 Terrible pizza at Anthony's, good hamburgers and live music at Margaritaville, which is only there about a year now, you can walk to both of them. Ben and Jerry's Icecream in Village nearby was great and reasonably priced. Olives had wonderful pasta, ravioli and meat sauce, pricey but good. The Burger Shack in the village was like eating at a greasy spoon dinner, burgers fried and cheese fries highly spiced, my only stomach upset was eating at that place.
5 Make sure you take the ferry into downtown Nassau, it is only a very short walk from Harborside, it was like $8 roundtrip per person and there is a narrator on the trip, that is very funny, you will enjoy listening to him.
You must check out Athena's Greek Restaurant in downtown Nassau, only a block away from ferry dock. You have to walk through a jewelry store and climb some stairs to the second floor. The store clerk rings a little bell to alert restaurant staff you are coming. Upstairs is the restaurant, cloth table clothes and reasonably priced Greek Food, pitas, salads etc. Nice and Relaxing and Aircondioned dining.
Make sure you visit the Straw Market, a flea market gone wild and the best pina coladas are at the Rum Distillery, nice little tour and then you can taste the rum and buy drinks at reasonable prices, the Rum Cake Bakery was pretty cool as well, you could actually taste the rum unlike Tortugas rum cakes.
1 Sandra's Taxi/Tour Service 242-525-9532 $105 roundtrip for the 4 of us with suitcases from Nass Airport to Harborside Resort. Delightful family owned and run business. We also used them for supermarket/liquor store shopping and they provided us a 3 hour tour as well. They were always prompt, on time and knew their stuff and treated you like part of their family.
2 Montagu Gardens Restaurant They provide free taxi service, to and from Harborside to their family run restaurant just outside of Atlantis. The fish dinners were fresh and moderately priced, which is a plus for this expensive part of the world. The service was friendly, not rushed and the meals came with wonderfully baked herb breads with a complete meal, salad and veggies and baked potatoes etc. Go to front desk and they will set it up for you, to be picked up. We went on a Saturday Night and saw a live wedding going on, music and dancing and all, it was quite fun.
3 do not go from 9/1 thru most of November, all the casual restaurants were closed, Carmines, Murray's, Virgils, Bimini Road etc. The Lazy River Ride was closed, which really bummed me out. My first visit was in January, much, much better experience as far as moderately priced places to eat.
4 Terrible pizza at Anthony's, good hamburgers and live music at Margaritaville, which is only there about a year now, you can walk to both of them. Ben and Jerry's Icecream in Village nearby was great and reasonably priced. Olives had wonderful pasta, ravioli and meat sauce, pricey but good. The Burger Shack in the village was like eating at a greasy spoon dinner, burgers fried and cheese fries highly spiced, my only stomach upset was eating at that place.
5 Make sure you take the ferry into downtown Nassau, it is only a very short walk from Harborside, it was like $8 roundtrip per person and there is a narrator on the trip, that is very funny, you will enjoy listening to him.
You must check out Athena's Greek Restaurant in downtown Nassau, only a block away from ferry dock. You have to walk through a jewelry store and climb some stairs to the second floor. The store clerk rings a little bell to alert restaurant staff you are coming. Upstairs is the restaurant, cloth table clothes and reasonably priced Greek Food, pitas, salads etc. Nice and Relaxing and Aircondioned dining.
Make sure you visit the Straw Market, a flea market gone wild and the best pina coladas are at the Rum Distillery, nice little tour and then you can taste the rum and buy drinks at reasonable prices, the Rum Cake Bakery was pretty cool as well, you could actually taste the rum unlike Tortugas rum cakes.
