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Nassau in four bookings: a food walk, a pig boat, a beach club, a day south.
What each one costs, how long it takes and how hard it is to get a seat.
01Day one, before anything elseBites of Nassau Food and Walking TourConch salad cut in front of you, guava duff, rum cake and the streets behind Bay Street. Do it on day one and the rest of the week eats better.
02The signature day3 Islands Tour, Snorkel, Pig Beach, Turtles & LunchThree stops in one boat run: reef, the pigs, then the turtles at Green Cay. The trip most people fly in for.
03The lazy versionSwimming Pigs and Private Beach Club EscapePigs in the morning, then a lounger and lunch at a private beach club. The same photographs with half the moving about.
04The long haul southExuma Island Hopping Swimming Pigs Tour with Lunch from NassauExuma in a day from Nassau, by fast boat or small plane. Sandbars, swimming pigs at Big Major Cay and nurse sharks at Compass Cay.
Rose Island in a morning, or the whole day down to Exuma.
Three ways to end up in the water with a pig, at three very different prices. Pick by how much of the day you are willing to give it.
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 · 3 Islands Tour, Snorkel, Pig Beach, Turtles & Lunch
The short crossingTwenty minutes off Nassau, pigs on the sand, a lounger for the afternoon.
The run to Big Major CayPowerboat or small plane, sandbars and nurse sharks in the same day.
Every pig tripReef stop, pigs, turtles and lunch, in whatever order the captain likes.
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Nassau first, then whichever cay the boat can reach.
One busy island with a harbour, a string of day-trip cays ten minutes off it, a second city two hundred miles north west, and the Exumas down the chain. Six places to start, and the best day out in each.
The reef starts where the sand stops.
Bahamian water runs about thirty feet over white sand, which is why it reads that colour from a plane and why you can see the bottom from the boat. Reef snorkels, green turtles fed by hand off Green Cay, and drop-offs that go dark a hundred yards from a beach lounger.
Nassau: the harbour before the ships, the town after.
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The whole island is 21 miles long and most of what you came for leaves from one harbour. Walk the old town and the fort early, eat at the fish shacks on Arawak Cay, and keep the water for the afternoon when the cruise crowd has gone back aboard.
Conch salad, johnnycake and a distillery stop
Conch salad is cut and dressed in front of you at the Fish Fry, and the walking version adds johnnycake, guava duff and a distillery stop behind Bay Street. It is the one tour that explains the food for the rest of the week.
The island in an afternoon
Queen’s Staircase, Fort Fincastle, the pastel government buildings and the bridge over to Paradise Island, with enough of the history to make the rest of the week make sense. Best done before the ships dock.
Your own ATV, east to the beach
Everyone drives their own machine along the south shore to a beach break. Hot, loud, dusty and the best way to see the parts of New Providence no tour bus goes near.
The most booked days out in the Bahamas.
Every Bahamian tour we have reviewed →The trips more travellers take than anything else in the islands, and what earns each of them the slot.
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Bites of Nassau Food and Walking Tour
Walk through old Nassau with a local guide such as Princess, Lisa, Mark, Pierre, or Captain Ron. Visit five family-owned food businesses, taste conch fritters and Bahamian comfort food, sip a rum cocktail at John Watling’s, and explore Graycliff’s historic grounds. Expect a generous meal, uneven streets, and plenty of local stories.
From · $99
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3 Islands Tour, Snorkel, Pig Beach, Turtles & Lunch
from $136
3
Nassau Island Highlights Sightseeing Tour
from $80
4
Pirate Jeep Sightseeing Adventure!
from $165
5
Swimming Pigs and Private Beach Club Escape
from $149
6
Sandy Toes The Original Rose Island and Swimming Pigs Tour
from $258
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Pigs, Snorkel, Turtles, Lunch, Private Beach Club
from $139
8
Rum Tasting and Food Walking Tour in Nassau Bahamas
from $98
The good beach is on a different island, twenty minutes out.
Cable Beach and Cabbage Beach are fine and busy. The water people remember is off New Providence altogether: Rose Island, Pearl Island, Blue Lagoon, Sandy Toes. A boat, a lounger, lunch and a swim with something.
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New Providence rewards anyone willing to drive on the left.
Past the resort strip the island turns into pine scrub, blowholes and beaches with nobody on them. Quad bikes go east along the south shore, jeeps take the whole loop, and a private car with a driver is the honest answer if the family is large and the day is hot.
- 1Pirate Jeep Sightseeing Adventure!from $165
- 2ATV Island Tour with Beach Break (Everyone Drive their Own ATV)from $100
- 3Fun Atv tour in Nassau with Lunch: Drivers must be 25 years oldfrom $149
What you will actually pay for a day out here.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. The gap between a kayak morning and a seat on the Exuma powerboat is wider here than almost anywhere.
Walking tours of the old town, a kayak morning, the dessert and rum cake stops.
The standard day: reef and pigs by boat, the ATV run, a beach club pass, a sunset dinner cruise.
Exuma by powerboat or plane, private charters and the small group days that keep the numbers down.
Three days out you cannot have anywhere else.
Warm water and white sand run the length of the Caribbean. Pigs that swim out to meet a boat, turtles that come to your hand in the shallows, and a cigar rolled in a 1740s Nassau house do not.
The Swimming Pigs
Nobody agrees how the pigs got to Big Major Cay in the Exumas, and the stories run from a shipwreck to a farmer who wanted them out of earshot. They swim out to boats because boats mean food. Nassau operators now keep their own herds on Rose Island and Pearl Island for people who cannot spare the whole day going south, and the animals are the same animals.
- 13 Islands Tour, Snorkel, Pig Beach, Turtles & Lunch★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 · 2,585 reviews
- 2Swimming Pigs and Private Beach Club Escape★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,238 reviews
- 3Sandy Toes The Original Rose Island and Swimming Pigs Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,232 reviews
Swimming with Turtles
Green turtles gather in a few sheltered sand flats off New Providence and Eleuthera where the water sits waist deep and clear. Boats stop, you slide in, and the turtles come to you rather than the other way around. Most pig trips fold this into the same morning, which is why so many titles read like a shopping list.
- 13 Islands Tour, Snorkel, Pig Beach, Turtles & Lunch★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 · 2,585 reviews
- 2Pigs, Snorkel, Turtles, Lunch, Private Beach Club★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,116 reviews
- 3Snorkeling, Pig Beach, Swim with Turtles, and Lunch★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 790 reviews
Graycliff
A former pirate’s house above the old town holds a cigar room where Cuban trained rollers work at a bench, a chocolate factory, a rum bar and a wine cellar of a quarter of a million bottles. You can taste through all four in an afternoon without leaving the property, and it is the one Nassau address that is a destination rather than a stop.
- 1Graycliff Chocolatier – The Art of Chocolate Interactive Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 36 reviews
- 2Graycliff Chocolatier Chocolate and Spirits Tasting in Nassau★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 10 reviews
- 3Afternoon Tea at Graycliff Hotel★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 7 reviews
Four Bahamian bookings that will not wait until you land.
Most of Nassau can be sorted from a hotel lobby the night before. These four run on boat manifests, small rooms and one sailing a day.
- 01Exuma Elite Escape: Luxury Fly-In Pig Beach Adventure – 7 StopsOne departure a day, a long run each way and a fixed number of seats on the boat. Cancelled outright when the wind gets up, so give it a spare day in the middle of your trip.
- 02Graycliff Chocolatier – The Art of Chocolate Interactive TourThe cigar bench, the chocolate room and the cellar all take small numbers at set times. Walk-ins get the shop, not the tasting.
- 03Nassau Sunset Dinner CruiseOne sailing a night, and the boat holds what it holds. Sunset moves earlier through the winter, so check the departure time against your dinner plans, not the other way round.
- 04Blue Lagoon Island Beach Day from NassauPrivate cay day passes cap the number of people on the sand, which is the whole point of paying for one. Cruise days sell them out first.
Six thousand people can dock in Nassau before breakfast.
Up to six ships tie up at Prince George Wharf on a good winter Tuesday, and the old town, the straw market and the nearest beaches take the whole of it. The fix is not to stay in. Be on a boat before nine, put the town at the end of the day, or get off New Providence altogether.
Bahamian food is cut on a dock, not plated.
Conch salad chopped into a cup at Arawak Cay, cracked conch and johnnycake at a fish shack, guava duff after it, and rum that was distilled twenty minutes from where you are standing.
By kind of day: water, wheels, town or table
Nassau, a cay or two, and one long day down the Exuma chain.
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