Atlantis Paradise Island, a 141-acre water park with 5 places to stay, across the bridge from Nassau in the Bahamas
Atlantis suits families who want marine encounters between pool sessions and prefer to choose their restaurants each evening. If a small hotel and a quiet beach are the whole plan, I would look elsewhere.
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Sol Kerzner bought the faded resort on Paradise Island in 1994 and, by the hotel’s own account, spent more than $800 million on a lost-city fantasy: lagoons, a Mayan Temple of slides and a marine habitat of 11 million gallons. The Royal and its casino opened in 1998, the marina in 2005, and The Cove, The Reef, Dolphin Cay and a 63-acre extension of the water park in 2007. The Royal’s rooms were rebuilt for its 25th year in 2023, and 2026 brought a reworked Mandara Spa, the Imperial Club and The Reserve at Baths Colonnade.
Guests come for the water and mostly get what they came for. In the latest 500 Google reviews, 106 talk about the water park, the Rapids River above all, and 89 about the aquariums, the dolphins and the sea turtles seen from the beach; 279 of the 500 give 5 stars, and families with children or teenagers write the warmest of them.
Atlantis is best taken for what it is: 5 hotels round a water park, where getting from one tower to the next means a long walk or a wait for the shuttle, and where by day the slides and pools are shared with visitors off the cruise ships. Anyone after a small hotel or an all-inclusive rate will be happier elsewhere. Meals are not in the rate: restaurant prices carry 10% VAT and a 15% gratuity on top, then comes the resort fee, and a pizza costs $30. Guests also describe slides, restaurants or whole areas closed or under works, most often from spring to October 2026, when the hotel’s own page listed 12 venues closed or cut back for part of the autumn.
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At Atlantis, across the bridge from Nassau, 5 hotels stand round the 141 acres of Aquaventure: slides through a shark lagoon, a sunken city behind glass, and the beach.
How we choose the hotelsAmong the hotel’s regulars, a guest who wrote in August 2026 says they came when the children were young and still return now they are adults. A returning guest writing in June 2025 recommends Water View rooms for the sea and the slides below. A family writing in July 2026 calls Dolphin Cay a highlight of its second stay.
Return-stay candidates were checked across the 1,030 reviews with text; day visits and unconfirmed hotel stays were left out.
What we found reading the hotel’s own pages, one thing at a time.
On the beaches of Paradise Island’s north shore, a bridge away from Nassau: the cruise port is 4.4 km by road and the airport 22.2 km.
Pink towers joined by a bridge suite, sharks under a slide, a walk-through sunken city: a theme held since 1998.
From 32 m² at The Coral to a 449 m² penthouse at The Cove; The Royal’s rooms were rebuilt in 2023, and guests write warmly of them, of the suites at The Cove and of the kitchens at The Reef.
About 40 places to eat, with Nobu, Fish by José Andrés and Paranza; no meal is in the room rate, bills add 10% VAT and a 15% gratuity, and several venues close in autumn.
Mandara Spa, reopened in 2026 with steam, sauna and plunge pools, a lap pool and 6 tennis courts; a day pass to the thermal area costs $50.
$216 to $1,219 a night before taxes and fees in our readings; on top come 21% in VAT and tourism levies, a resort fee from $77 a room a day, and every meal.
What do Atlantis Paradise Island’s guests say? They write it in their reviews, even those who only came for a drink or dinner: we read every one and tell the 5 things that matter, from the location to the bill.
8 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Guests write about the ocean and harbour views, the beach with its clear turquoise water and the lagoons inside the grounds; Nassau is a short taxi ride away, across the bridge.
Guests write warmly of the renovated rooms and suites at The Royal, the suites at The Cove and the kitchens at The Reef.
5 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. The water park with its Rapids River and slides, the aquariums, the beaches and many members of staff thanked by name are what guests keep coming back to.
Breakfast is not in the rate and is bought where you like: at the buffet at Poseidon’s Table, at Perch, at Murray’s Deli or at one of the 4 Starbucks.
Guests write about what gets added to the price: VAT and service on every restaurant bill, the resort fee and gratuities on the room.
| What | Score out of 10 | Guests who mention it | Happy |
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| Location | 7.8 | 103 | 80% |
| Room | 4.8 | 109 | 40% |
| Staff and service | 5.9 | 308 | 45% |
| Breakfast | 5.9 | 10 | 50% |
| Price | – | 172 | 7% |
The scores come from 499 Google reviews with text, left from 20 March 2026 to 8 October 2026. The other hotels are the ones weighed for a stay in Nassau and Paradise Island: for each we read its latest 500 Google reviews with text, or all of them where there are fewer, as of 8 October 2026. The score is the average of what they say, from 0 if they speak of it very badly to 10 if they speak of it very well. Where only a few mention something, the score stays close to the guide’s average: a handful of voices does not make a reputation.
The hotels we weigh it against in Nassau and Paradise Island:
Price: for two on the night of 20 October 2026, from $216 (seen on Google Hotels on 8 October 2026).
Slides through a shark lagoon, a sunken city behind glass, 5 miles of sand and a table at Nobu when the park closes.
The water park covers 141 acres and every overnight guest gets in: the Mayan Temple and Power Tower slides, the mile-long Rapids River with its white water, and the Leap of Faith, a near-vertical 60-foot drop through a clear tunnel in a shark lagoon. The big slides need a height of 48 inches. In October the pools close at 6pm.
The marine habitat is part of the resort fee: The Dig, a walk through the ruins of an imagined Atlantis, a 100-foot tunnel under the Predator Lagoon, and pools of rays, reef sharks and green turtles with posted feeding times. Programmes with dolphins and sea lions at Dolphin Cay are booked and paid for separately.
The resort counts 5 miles of sand: Atlantis Beach, Royal Beach, the sheltered Paradise Lagoon and, at the quieter end, Cove Beach and Paradise Beach inside the grounds kept for guests of The Cove and The Reef. Towels are free; a shaded chaise at The Edge Beach Reserve is reserved by the day.
3 kitchens carry a chef’s name: Nobu beside the casino, open from 5:30pm, and Fish by José Andrés and Paranza by Michael White on The Cove’s side, both from 5pm. Tables can be booked up to 90 days ahead, a no-show costs $50 a person, and bills add 10% VAT and a 15% gratuity.
Part of the resort shuts in autumn: on 8 October 2026 the hotel’s own page listed 12 venues closed or on reduced hours until dates between 5 October and 13 November, and the Grotto Pool closed until 2 November. Source: atlantisbahamas.com
On top of the rate come 21% in VAT and tourism levies, a resort fee of $77 a room a day ($82.50 at The Cove and The Reef) and a mandatory gratuity of up to $7 a person a night in a standard room. Source: atlantisbahamas.com
No meal is in the room rate: the hotel’s FAQ says plainly that Atlantis is not an all-inclusive resort. Source: atlantisbahamas.com
Autumn is low season and part of the resort shuts. The hotel’s closures page, read on 8 October 2026, listed 12 venues closed or cut back until dates between 5 October and 13 November, and its pools page gives the Grotto Pool as closed until Monday 2 November. In the Google reviews from spring to October 2026, 26 guests describe slides, restaurants or areas shut or under works.
The rate you see is not the rate you pay. The official FAQ adds 21% in VAT and 2 tourism levies, a resort fee of $77 a room a day at The Royal and The Coral ($82.50 at The Cove and The Reef) and a mandatory gratuity of up to $7 a person a night in a standard room, more in suites.
«Atlantis is not an all-inclusive Resort», says the same FAQ: no meal is in the room rate. Restaurant and bar bills add 10% VAT and a 15% gratuity, and guests in 2026 list $30 for a pizza and $25 for a bagel and coffee.
The hotel’s own guide to rates gives a minimum stay of 2 nights, with one-night stays only at The Cove in some seasons. On the booking engine, a one-night search for November returned no offer, and the Thanksgiving and New Year searches returned rates only for 4 and 5 nights.
Not every pool and beach is for every guest. Cascades Pool is for The Cove and The Reef, The Cove Pool and The Reserve at Baths Colonnade for adult guests of The Cove, and the shuttle drops only their wristbands at those 2 hotels.
Distances are long. A shuttle links the hotels, Marina Village and the golf course every 30 minutes; guests write that there is a lot of walking.
The park is shared with day visitors, many from cruise ships: a day pass gives them Aquaventure, the pools, the beaches and the aquariums from 8:30am. In Google reviews from 2026 guests write that the pools and slides are more crowded on days with ships in port.
The resort takes no cash: Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover only, with a hold on the card at check-in. Pets are not accepted, service animals aside, and those need a Bahamian import permit.
In Google reviews written between February and September 2026, faults in the rooms recur: showers with low pressure, slow drains and no hot water, air conditioning that does not cool, a damp smell or traces of mould in the bathroom. Several guests also describe lifts out of order.
Between June and July 2026, 6 Google reviews describe pools that had run out of towels.
By taxi or booked transfer from Nassau’s airport, over the bridge to Paradise Island
| Nassau airport (NAS) | 22.2 km and about 36 minutes by road on our route with no traffic; a second router gives 46. The hotel runs no free shuttle: it sells shared and private transfers, and taxis wait at the terminal |
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| Cruise port | Prince George Wharf is 4.4 km away, about 9 minutes by car; the hotel’s day-pass page says 10 to 20 by taxi, or a ferry every 30 minutes from 9am to noon |
| Downtown Nassau | The Straw Market is 5 km and Parliament Square 4.3 km away, both about 10 minutes by car over the bridge |
| Parking | Valet at The Royal, The Coral, The Cove and The Reef for $21, VAT included; self-parking on the ground floor of the parking garage, open 24 hours |
| Leaving | The hotel’s terms advise leaving the resort 3 hours before a flight, to clear United States customs at Nassau |
Distances and times are calculated on OpenStreetMap’s roads with no traffic; the hotel’s own figures come from its FAQ, terms and day-pass pages, read on 8 October 2026.
Atlantis Paradise Island · One Casino Drive, Paradise Island
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Arriving before check-in, use the In-Transit lounge for a shower and a change of clothes; at The Royal it sits between the East and West wings.
From Tuesday to Sunday, start the morning at Predator Lagoon.
Enter from the lower level of The Royal lobby and explore the 15 chambers inspired by the imagined lost city.
With a table booked, head to Nobu beside the casino for dinner; the restaurant opens at 5.30pm.
At The Dilly Club in Marina Village, choose a cocktail before the bar closes at midnight.
The resort has one Google listing for all 5 places to stay: 4.4 out of 5 from 22,941 reviews. Tripadvisor and Booking.com list each tower separately; the scores shown here are The Royal’s, the central and most reviewed one.
Scores read on 8 October 2026. The Tripadvisor and Booking.com figures are for The Royal at Atlantis only; for the whole resort there is only Google’s listing.
Google22,941 reviews, the whole resort4.4/5
Tripadvisor12,494 reviews, The Royal only3.7/5
Booking.com878 reviews, The Royal only7.8/106 stays described on Google between July and October 2026.
GoogleA family who came for the autumn school break in 2026 liked their renovated 2-bedroom suite at The Royal and little else: many restaurants were closed «due to renovations or low occupancy», the water park ran with rotating closures, and the online system offered dinner tables that the restaurants then said they did not have. None of it, they wrote, was mentioned before they booked.
GoogleA couple returning for their tenth wedding anniversary stayed in The Royal’s west tower: a clean room serviced every day, friendly staff and a maintenance man who swapped a sagging mattress without fuss. Some slides, restaurants and areas were closed or under construction, and the food was very expensive for what it was.
Google5 days at The Reef in late August 2026, with a kitchen for breakfast and a balcony: the lazy river was «the best I have ever been on», the slides suited teenagers, and the children saw a sea turtle snorkelling off the beach. The complaint was food: a buffet dinner at Poseidon’s Table came to a little over $300 for 4.
Google2 adults at The Cove in July 2026 found a pool chair waiting every day at the adults’ pool, spacious clean rooms and slides that were mostly open; the park, they noticed, empties after 5pm when the cruise ships leave. Everything is pricey, shaded beach chairs go quickly, and tables need booking.
GoogleA guest who stayed 5 days in 2026 and wanted more: the beaches, the Serpent Slide 4 times, dinner at Fish by José Andrés and the aquariums on 2 rainy days. She walked 16,000 to 18,000 steps a day inside the resort, and advises eating outside it now and then, because food and even water are expensive.
GoogleAt The Cove in early summer 2026 a guest found the room comfortable if ageing, the main adults’ pool under construction and the towel huts empty by 9:30 or 10 in the morning. A good lounger near the beach or a pool meant being out by 7:45am, and about a quarter of the chairs were broken.
What people ask before booking Atlantis Paradise Island, answered from sources read on 8 October 2026.
A resort of 5 places to stay at One Casino Drive, on Paradise Island, the islet joined to Nassau by bridge. The hotel’s rooms page names them: The Royal, the pink twin towers of 1998; The Coral, aimed at families; The Cove, all suites; The Reef, studios and suites with kitchens; and Harborside Resort, villas across the marina. Around them sit the Aquaventure water park, an open-air marine habitat, a casino, a marina and a golf course.
The hotel’s history gives The Cove 600 rooms and The Reef 497 when they opened in 2007; a total for the resort is not on the pages we read. The Coral, The Royal and The Cove take part in Marriott Bonvoy. Google Hotels files the resort without a star class and calls it «an ocean-themed casino resort» of 154 acres.
The former Beach tower is no longer sold: a line in the site’s own page data says a separate resort, Somewhere Else, is to be built where it stood, without a date.
We count 30 categories in the official catalogue. At The Royal, guest rooms of 37 m² rebuilt in 2023, with a French balcony, then suites from 89 to 440 m². At The Coral, guestrooms of 32 to 33 m² and Premium rooms of 39 m², all with a full balcony, and suites up to 333 m².
The Cove has suites only, from 62 to 449 m², most with a sunken sitting area. The Reef has studios of 49 m² with a kitchenette and suites with full kitchens up to 288 m². Harborside has villas of one to 3 bedrooms, 52 to 134 m², with kitchens and laundry.
Standard rooms sleep 4 at most, by the hotel’s FAQ, with coffee and tea, a small fridge, a safe and air conditioning. Sizes are the hotel’s square feet converted to square metres. An older page for The Royal still lists rooms of 345 to 360 square feet with full balconies; the current catalogue no longer links it.
The Royal is the centre: beside Aquaventure, The Dig and the casino, with the newest standard rooms. The Coral is the family tower and, on our dates, the cheapest, with its own pool, a swim-up bar and the teenagers’ club, close to Marina Village.
The Cove is the adult end: suites only, an adults-only pool with gaming tables, and beaches and pools closed to the other towers. The Reef next door shares its Cascades Pool and beach and adds a kitchen, which guests use to cut the cost of breakfast.
Harborside is a separate villa resort across the marina, linked by shuttle: the lead guest must be 21, the resort fee is replaced by a utility fee a person, and check-out is at 10am.
On Paradise Island, off the north shore of New Providence. «Atlantis is not on Nassau», the FAQ insists: you cross the Sir Sidney Poitier Bridge or arrive by boat. Downtown Nassau is about 5 km by road and Baha Mar, on Cable Beach, 12.1 km.
The resort faces the Atlantic on one side and the marina on the other, and is a small town in itself; guests mention music by the pools, building work in 2026 and long walks more often than street noise.
Lynden Pindling International Airport (NAS) is 22.2 km away: about 36 minutes by car with no traffic on routes calculated with OpenStreetMap, and 46 on a second router. The hotel’s FAQ says it offers no complimentary shuttle; it sells return transfers to book in advance, shared or private shuttle, town car, SUV, limousine and an accessible van, and taxis wait at the airport.
The hotel publishes no taxi fare on the pages we read. For the return, its terms advise leaving 3 hours before the flight, because United States customs are cleared in Nassau.
Yes. The FAQ prices valet parking at $21, and the hotel’s New Year’s Eve page adds that valet is at The Coral, The Royal, The Cove and The Reef for $21, VAT included, with self-parking 24 hours a day on the ground floor of the parking garage.
Neither page says whether $21 is a day or an entry, and no price is given for self-parking. Bahamian residents get free valet with dinner at participating restaurants.
Yes. The resort counts 5 miles of beach on its water park page and names Atlantis Beach, Royal Beach, Cove Beach, Paradise Beach and the protected Paradise Lagoon. Its history speaks of a 2-mile beach, so the larger figure counts every shore.
Beach towels are free at guest-service huts. The hotel’s pages do not price ordinary loungers; guests in 2026 describe free chairs, with the shaded ones taken early. What is sold is the upgrade: a chaise under a canopy at The Edge Beach Reserve, open from 10am to 5pm on selected days, and beach daybeds for 2.
Guests of The Cove and The Reef have Cove Beach and Paradise Beach inside their own grounds. Several reviews mention snorkelling from the sand, with fish and sea turtles in clear water.
There are many, and the hotel counts them 3 ways: 11 on its tower pages, 14 in its pools guide and 20 «swimming areas» in the FAQ. The main ones are the Royal Baths below The Royal, the zero-entry Mayan Temple Pool, the Grotto Pool with its waterfall, The Coral Pool with a swim-up bar, and Poseidon’s Playzone, a 9,000-square-foot water fort for children under 54 inches.
3 are restricted: Cascades Pool to guests of The Cove and The Reef, and The Cove Pool and The Reserve at Baths Colonnade to guests of The Cove aged 18 or over. The FAQ says the Harborside pool is for homeowners only, while the pools guide presents it to all ages. A 25-metre lap pool sits by the fitness centre.
Cabanas are rented by the day at The Coral Pool, the Mayan Temple, The Current and Poseidon’s Playzone, for 6 to 10 people. The Grotto Pool was closed on 8 October 2026 and due back on 2 November.
The hotel does not claim heating. Its FAQ answers that the pools are used all year and that, being outdoors, «water temperatures may fluctuate with the weather». It gives the islands’ air temperature as 70 to 90°F, with rare dips to the 60s from December to May.
Pools, beaches and cabanas open at 9am and close at 5pm from November to February, 6pm in October and 7pm from March to September, light permitting.
The daily resort fee covers the things most guests come for: Aquaventure every day, The Dig, the Predator Tunnel and the marine lagoons with their feedings, Wi-Fi for 4 devices (6 at The Cove and The Reef), the gym for 2, 2 refillable bottles, films in the theatre and by the pool, the shuttle between hotels and a daily gaming lesson. The list is in the FAQ.
Charged on top: every meal and drink, cabanas and daybeds, the spa, golf, tennis and fitness classes, the children’s club, babysitting, and the programmes at Dolphin Cay, whose page shows prices from $95 to $355. The casino is free to enter: 80 tables open from 10am to 4am and slots all day, for guests of 18 or over.
The hotel counts 21 restaurants and 19 bars and lounges. The names that draw bookings are Nobu, by the casino, from 5:30pm to 11pm; Fish by José Andrés and Paranza by Michael White, from 5pm to 10pm, where guests of other towers need a reservation to enter The Cove’s side; and Seafire Steakhouse and Café Martinique in Marina Village.
The dining rules: tables are booked up to 90 days before arrival and only for dinner; a table not cancelled by 4pm costs $50 a person at the signature restaurants and $30 at the casual ones; men wear collared shirts at the signature tables, and shorts and flip-flops are refused. Children of 5 and under eat free at listed venues.
In autumn check what is open. On 8 October 2026 the closures page had Chop Stix shut until 21 October, Sun & Ice and Moon Bar until 30 October, Riverbend Café until 3 November, Breakwaters Grill and Bimini Road until 6 November and Murray’s Deli from 2 to 13 November; Café Martinique’s own page read «Seasonal Closure».
No. The inclusions page says the resort «is not a traditional, all-inclusive resort», and the FAQ that meals are not part of a room reservation. Breakfast is bought where you like: the buffet at Poseidon’s Table, Perch, Murray’s Deli, Plato’s for pastries in The Royal’s lobby, Shake Shack or one of 4 Starbucks, by the breakfast page.
2 room types bring a continental breakfast with them: the Imperial rooms and suites at The Royal and the Lapis club suites at The Cove. The autumn offer also includes breakfast for 2 on stays of 4 nights or more.
The FAQ and the terms still mention «Dining Plans» that cannot be cancelled within 3 days of arrival, but on 8 October 2026 the page they point to showed the special offers instead, with no plan and no price. Poseidon’s Table was closed from 21 September to 20 October 2026.
The spa reopened in 2026 after what the hotel calls a multimillion-dollar transformation, in sea colours, with relaxation lounges, a full salon, a barber, medical aesthetics and IV drips. The hotel’s history gave it 30,000 square feet, about 2,787 m², when it opened in 2007; Mandara’s page, read on 11 October 2026, gives the reopened spa the same 30,000 square feet, with 28 treatment rooms.
The thermal area, which the menu calls Taking of the Waters, is split into women’s and men’s sides, each with a hydrotherapy pool, a cold plunge pool, a steam room and a sauna; the women’s side adds an aromatherapy room. The spa and salon open from 10am to 6pm every day.
Not included. The resort fee covers the fitness centre for 2, and the FAQ lists the spa among services offered «for a nominal fee». The thermal area is free with any treatment; without one, the menu sells a pass at $50 for a day, $85 for 2 days, $110 for 3 and $125 for 4, VAT included.
The menu does not say whether a visitor who is not staying may buy that pass, and the resort’s own day pass does not mention the spa. Treatments and the facilities are for guests of 18 and over; there is a separate menu for 13 to 17 year-olds. The gym opens from 6am to 7pm on the hotel’s page, to 6pm on the spa menu and to 8pm on Mandara’s page.
On the menu read on 8 October 2026, a Swedish massage starts at $200 for 60 minutes, a Balinese or Bahamas Botanical at $220, deep tissue or hot stone at $230, and each rises to $280 to $310 for 90 minutes; a couples’ massage starts at $420 for 60 minutes. Facials use Elemis. Prices include VAT, a 20% service charge is added, and the menu warns that rates rise with the day and hour.
It is built for them. Atlantis Kids Adventures takes children of 3 to 12, out of nappies and with proof of age, in paid sessions by day and in the evening; the page gives no price. CRUSH, a 14,000-square-foot club with gaming consoles and a dance floor, is for ages 13 to 17 on The Coral’s page and 9 to 17 on its own.
In the water, the big slides ask for 48 inches of height and Poseidon’s Playzone is kept for children under 54 inches. Babysitting is in the room only, at $38.50 an hour for one child, VAT included, for at least 3 hours.
On the bill, children under 12 pay no gratuity or extra-person charge, and the under-6s eat free at listed restaurants. Parents in the reviews praise the park and the aquariums; meals are not in the rate, and several guests found slides closed between spring and October 2026.
No. «We do not allow pets of any type at Atlantis», says the FAQ. The exception is a registered service or emotional-support dog, which needs a Bahamian import permit applied for before travel; Harborside accepts service animals only.
A casino between The Royal and The Coral with a sportsbook and a private room, Cleitos; the Ocean Club course; a marina of 63 slips for yachts of up to 250 feet beside Marina Village’s shops; the Crystal Court boutiques; a theatre showing films; the nightclub Aura; 6 tennis courts, pickleball and a basketball court; and the conference centre.
Rooms run on 110 volts, and housekeeping lends adapters for European plugs. There is a clinic at The Coral with nurses from 8am to 8pm and a doctor on call, a sundries shop in each area and a food store a few blocks away.
On 8 October 2026 the headline was Fall Into Paradise: up to 35% off stays of 4 nights or more, a $250 resort credit and breakfast for 2, to book by 22 November for travel until 31 January 2027, not valid from 21 to 27 November or from 15 December to 1 January.
The booking engine also showed non-refundable rates, up to 30% below the flexible ones, on every search we made. Other offers are for flight-and-hotel packages, the military and first responders, and Marriott Bonvoy members booking direct.
Yes. The hotel lists more than 20 venues, from Stingray Falls for 10 guests to The Royal Beach for 200 to 600 and Ripples Deck for up to 500, with beaches, gardens, the Dig Deck and ballrooms between.
Packages start at $2,400 for a vow renewal, $3,750 for the smallest wedding and $5,650 for the next; each includes an officiant, an hour of photography, a bouquet and a boutonnière. Group room rates need 10 rooms for 3 nights, private spaces a party of 15, and balloons are banned to protect the animals.
For 31 December 2026 the hotel has announced Andrea Bocelli on The Royal Deck: doors at 9:30pm, the concert at 11pm, fireworks at midnight and a DJ after. Tickets start at $300 for general admission and rise to $1,000 or more, plus VAT, with an open bar.
No food is served at the concert and no gala dinner is on the pages we read: the hotel suggests dining first at Café Martinique, Seafire, Nobu, Paranza or Fish. The page for the children’s party at the kids’ club still describes an earlier year. A concert by Alex Warren follows on 2 January on Casuarina Beach.
Yes: the Ocean Club Golf Course, 18 holes, par 72 and more than 7,100 yards by Tom Weiskopf, on a peninsula of Paradise Island, a shuttle stop from the hotels. The Tee Time package adds a round for 2, a $25 shop credit and a $50 food and drink credit to a stay; packages are suspended from 21 to 30 November 2026 and from 20 December to 2 January 2027.
The resort is open all year and announces no seasonal closing. What changes is how much of it runs: May, September and October are its off-peak months, and the venue closures listed in autumn 2026 lasted into November. The site’s page data also carries a notice of «an extraordinary transformation» under way at The Cove, undated; guests in May and July 2026 found its main adults’ pool under construction.
The FAQ places the wet season, which is also the hurricane season, from June to November, with a peak from August to October. Under the Hurricane Guarantee, if a watch or warning is issued for your departure city or for New Providence within 14 days of arrival, you can cancel up to departure and rebook within 60 days for a stay inside a year; it does not cover guests already at the resort.
On the hotel’s official booking engine, read on 8 October 2026 for 2 adults, the lowest room rate was $216 a night for 20 October 2026, $377 for 10 November, $230 for 8 December and $297 for 12 January 2027, each the average of a 2-night stay at The Coral; it rose to $727 a night over 4 nights from 25 November, Thanksgiving week, and $1,219 over 5 nights from 28 December. Every figure is a room rate before taxes and fees, on the non-refundable tariff.
The engine itself says its rates are subject to VAT, levies, the resort fee and gratuities. For 10 November that turns $377 into about $548 a night for 2: 21% on the rate, $77 of resort fee and up to $14 in gratuities. The flexible rate for the same room was $539 before those charges.
The other towers cost more: on 10 November, $650 at The Royal, $538 at The Reef and $699 at The Cove; on 8 December, $300, $384 and $489. The hotel’s own rate guide gives its lowest averages as $250 at The Coral, $290 at The Royal and $430 at The Cove, and names May, September and October, and Sunday to Wednesday, as the cheapest times.
3 things, set out in the FAQ. First, 21% on the nightly rate: 10% VAT, a 4.4% Paradise Island levy and a 6.6% Nassau Paradise Island promotion levy. Second, the resort fee: $70 plus VAT, so $77 a room a day, at The Coral and The Royal, and $82.50 at The Cove and The Reef.
Third, a mandatory gratuity for each guest of 12 or over: up to $7 a day in standard rooms and up to $14 in suites at The Royal and The Coral, $8 to $30 at The Cove and $8 to $52 at The Reef. A third or fourth guest of 12 or over costs up to $75 a night more. Harborside charges no resort fee but a utility fee of $20.52 a person a day and a $6.25 gratuity.
Older blocks still carried in the site’s pages print a resort fee of $59 or of $52.95: the FAQ and the booking engine, both read on 8 October 2026, agree on $70 plus VAT.
Check-in is at 4pm and check-out at 11am, 10am at Harborside. One guest in each room must be 18, or 21 at Harborside, with a credit card in their name. Early arrivals and late leavers can use the In-Transit lounges, which have showers and lockers.
For flexible rates the FAQ allows free cancellation until 8 days before arrival; inside 7 days the first 2 nights are charged, and a no-show the whole stay. Stays from 18 December 2026 to 2 January 2027 can be cancelled free until 31 October 2026 and are charged in full after. Non-refundable rates are paid at booking and can be cancelled only within 24 hours of it.
The FAQ also asks every traveller for a valid passport or proof of citizenship.
Yes, with a day pass, bought in advance and limited in number: it covers Aquaventure, the pools apart from Baths Colonnade, the beaches and the marine habitat, with check-in from 8:30am to 4:30pm. Adults are 13 and over, children 4 to 12, and under-3s are free; the page gives no price, only that it varies by date.
In summer 2026, 2 reviews put the price at about $200 a person, one of them bought as a cruise excursion. For those staying, the pass explains the queues on days when ships are in port.
The resort’s Google listing, which covers all 5 places to stay, shows 4.4 out of 5 from 22,941 reviews. Portals review the towers one by one: for The Royal, Tripadvisor shows 3.7 out of 5 from 12,494 reviews and Booking.com 7.8 out of 10 from 878, both read on 8 October 2026. We found no page that scores the resort as a whole apart from Google’s.
We read the latest 500 Google reviews with text, from 20 March to 8 October 2026: 279 give 5 stars. Praise goes to the water park (106 reviews mention it), the marine habitat and the beaches, and to staff whom many guests thank by name. Guests mention meals and extras added to the rate, the distances between the towers, faults in the rooms, from showers to air conditioning, and slides, restaurants or areas they found closed or undergoing works.
The largest hotel of the Baha Mar resort on Cable Beach: 1,800 rooms in 2 towers, 6 pools, the Baha Bay water park included, a casino and Marcus Samuelsson’s restaurant
29 sanctuaries with one side open to the Pitons, 24 of them with a private infinity pool, on the hill above Anse Chastanet’s 2 beaches; no air conditioning, no television and no guests under 16
A beach beside the waterways, connecting bedrooms for families and the Amal Lounge with Club rooms and suites.
Madinat’s beach, a turtle lagoon and rooms for families or adults.
La Croisette in front, a garden and pool within.
Seafront gardens, heated pools, Thalasso Spa and 28 room and villa types.
The cloister, Taormina and a pool above the sea.
A stone village to wander through, then Vair Spa below ground or the sea at Savelletri.
The wooden 1888 Victorian on the beach, 5 neighbourhoods to stay in and pools warm all year.
Rivers between the suites, 10 Casas and the Xcaret parks included in the stay, with the ferry to Isla Mujeres.
The 2005 palace on the Gulf: 114 domes, 1.3 km of beach and rooms from 55 m² up.
Overwater bungalows facing Mount Otemanu, beach villas and a private lagoon where you swim among the fish.
This guide is written with Lumina, the marketing system for hotels.
