I'm planning a trip to the Bahamas in the first week of December and plan on diving with Stuarts Cove. Looking for hotel suggestions or Airbnb ideas. Atlantis and Grand Hyatt look real nice but pricey and far from dive shop. Anyone who has any experience here I would appreciate some guidance. I've been to Cozumel 5 times and want to try something different.
where to stay in Bahamas - diving at Stuarts Cove
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I rented a nice home but on the other end of the island through FRBO and it included a car...about a 25 minute drive to SC...don’t recall the owner but she lived in Atlanta...nice three bedroom.
MattAO
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The Golden Palm B&B, Hibiscus Inn off the top of my head. Those are both under 100 a night. If you want someone to help let me know. My wife is a travel agent and can really get you setup. We go there a lot as well as well as elsewhere.
Nassau is expensive - Baha Mar is more centrally located than Atlantis, we always stay at Atlantis though and mostly dive with Bahama Divers, much friendlier atmosphere.
There's four or six condos right next to Stuarts Cove, the realtor showed us one for sale and I could have swore one was a rental.
It's all in what you're looking for I suppose, what you want around you and easy to do - for me driving the wrong side of the street around those round abouts meant a cab everywhere.
There's four or six condos right next to Stuarts Cove, the realtor showed us one for sale and I could have swore one was a rental.
It's all in what you're looking for I suppose, what you want around you and easy to do - for me driving the wrong side of the street around those round abouts meant a cab everywhere.
I dive with Stuart Cove's twice a year and we stay at Orange Hill, West Bay Street. Couple of restaurants with in walking distance and they do have of restaurant at the hotel. If you are looking for a fancy upscale place this is not for you. If you are looking for a place to lay your head after a long day of diving it will work. Stuart Cove's bus will pick you up and drop you off.
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Cove's is 45 mins. south on their shuttle so most of Nassau's north side is an option - you just have to be near a pickup point.
That includes most of Paradise Island, Cable Beach or downtown.
There's a couple Suites properties on Paradise Island. Comfort Suites has their view partially blocked by the Atlantis towers so guests have "privileges" at Atlantis - IDK what they are, The other property is the Best Western - it might have views of the channel btween Nassau and PI.
I do not recommend the Holiday Inn at Junkanoo Beach, it was old in the 80's. If you aren't renting a car, I wouldn't if Cove's is picking you up, there's shuttles that run between downtown, P.I. and Cable Beach often. There's also a ferry that docks just to the east of the cruise pier/downtown, it goes to Atlantis.
Orange Hill and another B&B used to package deals with Cove's also. IDK OH but the other one was not near much.
The farther east you get past downtown the grungier it gets so don't befooled by some of the small, inexpensive resorts near the harbor, Cove's won't pickup there either.
A few of the smaller resorts bordering the PI Golf Course looked decent but they're not waterfront.
If you aren't diving every day, Atlantis is worth a look, they have Dolphins, Manta Rays in a huge "
"Atlantis" exhibit, standup paddleboarding and the casino/night life.Not the best beach though. Cable Beach can be crowded also, some of the big tower hotels put out hundreds of beach chairs.
Everything is Expensive on Nassau - starting wth the airport cab ride. Food also since it's all imported.
That includes most of Paradise Island, Cable Beach or downtown.
There's a couple Suites properties on Paradise Island. Comfort Suites has their view partially blocked by the Atlantis towers so guests have "privileges" at Atlantis - IDK what they are, The other property is the Best Western - it might have views of the channel btween Nassau and PI.
I do not recommend the Holiday Inn at Junkanoo Beach, it was old in the 80's. If you aren't renting a car, I wouldn't if Cove's is picking you up, there's shuttles that run between downtown, P.I. and Cable Beach often. There's also a ferry that docks just to the east of the cruise pier/downtown, it goes to Atlantis.
Orange Hill and another B&B used to package deals with Cove's also. IDK OH but the other one was not near much.
The farther east you get past downtown the grungier it gets so don't befooled by some of the small, inexpensive resorts near the harbor, Cove's won't pickup there either.
A few of the smaller resorts bordering the PI Golf Course looked decent but they're not waterfront.
If you aren't diving every day, Atlantis is worth a look, they have Dolphins, Manta Rays in a huge "
"Atlantis" exhibit, standup paddleboarding and the casino/night life.Not the best beach though. Cable Beach can be crowded also, some of the big tower hotels put out hundreds of beach chairs.
Everything is Expensive on Nassau - starting wth the airport cab ride. Food also since it's all imported.
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I stay at Comfort Suites paradise Island. They pick you up in a bus and the drive is not bad. The drive is worth it to be within walking distance of Atlantis and all the restaurants.
Stuart's Cove caters to the cruise ships and that has a few repercussions. The time crunch to get the cruisers back to their boat means the dive times are rather short and the time schedule is anything but laid back. The shuttle gives preference to the cruisers on the way back so if you walk up to a shuttle with room for you they won't let you on if there are cruisers to get back to the ship and you will wait, in our case a loooong time for another shuttle to show up. They took the cruisers back to the ship and then came back for us so we waited 1.5 hours but they wouldn't tell us that's what was happening or when someone would be there. They deal with the same thing everyday and have almost no repeat customers so they treat people as nameless faces one step above cattle. I actually treat my cattle with more respect. YMMV One day was enough for us to know we didn't need to go there again. We got in 4 dives by 4pm and got back to the hotel just before 7. We are used to just going with the flow on dive trips to the caribbean. This flow wasn't for us.
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