In June, Spirit Airlines posted $49 flights from FLL to Nassau, so we fired up tix and flew over to the Bahamas for a 4 day trip. It was also our 5th anniversary, so we decided to make it special and stay at Atlantis. Well, aside from the awesome food and incredible salt water tanks, the price for the hotel was not really a big deal. Don't get me wrong, Atlantis is definitely an incredible place. We spent our anniversary sliding down the water slides and tubing through the shark tanks. It was a blast. We decided that if we come back we'll have to do it with our college friends.
We had our anniversary dinner at Fathoms, compliments of Big CR and Mary Ann, and that will be a dinner I'll never forget. We sat 1 foot away from on of the many 20-foot deep tanks. You almost think you're sitting in the middle of the ocean with manta rays the size of cars floating by, schools of hundreds of fish, yellowtail, jacks, angelfish, large grouper (including the one who watched us the entire time), just to name a few, and lobsters scurrying about the ocean floor. It was so awesome. We definitely recommend eating here, but make reservations ahead of time. To top off our dinner, a caribbean fire swallower/breather and dancers erupted into song and dance with a drum beat out of no where in the middle of the restaurant. It was crazy.
We hardly stayed in the hotel. We took the ferry over to downtown Nassau and checked out the Straw Market and the backroads to see what was going on, and tried to stay away from most of the tourist scene. We walked around the corner and happened to catch a Junkanoo celebration... Later we had lunch and watched to town close up around 4pm after 'rush hour'. We assume most of the places stay open for the cruise ships and the after-work crowd.
As always, we did some snorkeling. Compliments of the Stuart Cove's outfit, we had a chance to experience snorkeling with sharks. Although I'm really against the whole 'feed them and they will come' deal, we had a blast. We were was the first ones in the water, and I was the last to get out — after being yelled at to get out of the water. We took pics...
It was a fun trip, only a 45 minute flight, and we'll keep our eyes peeled for more cheap opportunities to get over there and give Uncle Willie a call to pick us up at the airport.
We had our anniversary dinner at Fathoms, compliments of Big CR and Mary Ann, and that will be a dinner I'll never forget. We sat 1 foot away from on of the many 20-foot deep tanks. You almost think you're sitting in the middle of the ocean with manta rays the size of cars floating by, schools of hundreds of fish, yellowtail, jacks, angelfish, large grouper (including the one who watched us the entire time), just to name a few, and lobsters scurrying about the ocean floor. It was so awesome. We definitely recommend eating here, but make reservations ahead of time. To top off our dinner, a caribbean fire swallower/breather and dancers erupted into song and dance with a drum beat out of no where in the middle of the restaurant. It was crazy.
We hardly stayed in the hotel. We took the ferry over to downtown Nassau and checked out the Straw Market and the backroads to see what was going on, and tried to stay away from most of the tourist scene. We walked around the corner and happened to catch a Junkanoo celebration... Later we had lunch and watched to town close up around 4pm after 'rush hour'. We assume most of the places stay open for the cruise ships and the after-work crowd.
As always, we did some snorkeling. Compliments of the Stuart Cove's outfit, we had a chance to experience snorkeling with sharks. Although I'm really against the whole 'feed them and they will come' deal, we had a blast. We were was the first ones in the water, and I was the last to get out — after being yelled at to get out of the water. We took pics...It was a fun trip, only a 45 minute flight, and we'll keep our eyes peeled for more cheap opportunities to get over there and give Uncle Willie a call to pick us up at the airport.
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