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Bahamas - Hotels Are you planning a beach vacation, holiday, or honeymoon to the Bahamas? Here's where you'll easily find your Bahamas Hotel Graced with beautiful beaches of pink sand, evocative windswept panoramas and countless opportunities for diving, snorkelling and fishing, the islands of the Bahamas are well established as one of the world's top vacation destinations for both intrepid explorers and casual vacationers. An island chain beginning a mere 55 miles east of Miami, Florida, the Bahamas offer an array of tourist hotels, all-inclusive resorts, and even rustic lodges, making vacation there a relatively simple endeavour. Indeed, more than three million travellers each year choose the islands as their prime destination for outdoor sports, sun worship, casino gambling and, on some of the slightly more remote spots, eco-tourism Find the best deal, compare prices and read what other travelers have to say at TripAdvisor ALICE TOWN, BAHAMAS Just fifty miles east of Miami, Florida, is the world-famous fishing destination Alice Town on North Bimini. Capital of the tiny Bimini island chain, Alice Town is also one of the most well-known party sites anywhere in the Bahamas. Popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who described it as a hard-drinking fishing refuge, the town's numerous hotels and marinas continue to provide plenty of activity for anglers, divers and snorkellers, as well as a freewheeling, somewhat ribald atmosphere somewhat reminiscent of the town's glory days. With more than two hundred hotel rooms in a six-block-square area, Alice Town has a number of notable fishing clubs and resorts . Best known is the Compleat Angler Hotel , King's Highway (tel 242/347-3122; US$50-75), where Hemingway drank, fought and wrote the novel To Have and Have Not . It houses a collection of Hemingway memorabilia including rare photographs of the author. Almost as famous, the original Bimini Big Game Fishing Club and Hotel , King's Highway (tel 242/347-3391), has hotel rooms, two penthouse suites and twelve cottages, and offers marina services along with excellent food and drink. Both the Bimini Bay Guest House (tel 242/347-2171), an Art Deco treasure, and the Bimini Blue Water Resort (tel 242/347-3166), where Hemingway wrote in a cottage called the Anchorage, also offer comfortable surroundings and fine food.

King's Highway, the only paved road on the island, is lined with many good restaurants, swinging pubs, and garish souvenir stands. Primary air service to Alice Town, Bahamas is provided by Pan Am Air Bridges (1000 MacArthur Causeway, Miami, Florida; tel 242/347-3024 or 1-800/424-2557), although charter services to North Bimini, namely Bimini Island Air (tel 954/938-8991), operate out of Fort Lauderdale as well. FREEPORT/LUCAYA Freeport's main commercial district is centred on The Mall , located between Ranfurly Circus - named for a British royal governor who supported the city's development in the 1950s - and Churchill Square, about ten blocks north. Surrounding the city centre, The Mall is bound on one side by West Mall Drive, and on the other by East Mall Drive , where most of the hotels and restaurants are located. Tourist activity is focused on the south end of East Mall Drive , around Ranfurly Circus and the International Bahamas Bazaar. East from Ranfurly Circus on Sunrise Highway, and south on Seahorse Road, Port Lucaya and the beachfront hotels of Lucaya comprise a resort area with a more cheerful atmosphere than Freeport's, with carefully tended lawns and shrubbery, and tidy, candy-coloured shops and houses. A seaside suburb first developed in the 1960s, Lucaya is dominated by the brand-new and massive Our Lucaya Beach Hotel and Golf Resort , fronting Lucayan Beach , with two golf courses. Across the street from Our Lucaya is Port Lucaya Marketplace , a busy, colourful tourist market overlooking the boats at Port Lucaya Marina , with shops selling clothing, jewellery, perfume, crystal and china, open-air stalls displaying straw work and other souvenirs, and several lively restaurants and bars packed with vacationers MARSH HARBOUR Home to four thousand residents, MARSH HARBOUR is the third largest town in the Bahamas and the main focus of tourism in the Abacos. Featuring most of the hotels, inns, marinas and diving operations on the island, the town is an essential hub for ferries connecting with the rest of the Loyalist Cays. The settlement lies on a peninsula just off the smoothly paved Great Abaco Highway , which runs south through Great Abaco to Cherokee Point and Little Harbour . North of town, the road becomes S.C. Bootle Highway , another smooth stretch that runs north and west toward Treasure Cay and Little Abaco. Marsh Harbour has most of the services available in any small town in Florida, including an excellent post office, bookstore, grocery stores, specialty shops, travel agencies and laundries. Most visitors come to boat, swim or snorkel, and stay at one of the lodges or hotels located near Bay Street on the waterfront, though some adventurers reserve a day or two to kayak in the Marls on trips conducted by naturalist guides. To get around you can use the numerous taxis in town, which are metered at US$1.50 per mile (though you should always establish a fare with the driver before setting off) or bicycles, motorcycles or motorscooters , which can be rented at most resorts, or at R&L Rent-a-Ride (tel 242/367-4289), at the entrance to Abaco Towns-by-the-Sea . Founded in 1784 by Loyalists, Marsh Harbour spent many years as a logging, sponging and " wrecking " town, with boat-building as a secondary industry. These days, tourism has replaced logging as the town's major source of income, and its marinas are now lined with expensive yachts and surrounded by the swank vacation homes and retirement castles of a new breed of North American expatriates. For the most part, Marsh Harbour is a quiet place, its nightlife restricted to a few local bars and lounges and most of its activity taking place at the resorts near the harbour , where Albury Ferry Dock transfers tourists to boats journeying out to the Loyalist Cays. The town's only conventional "sight" is an exotic yellow edifice known as Seaview Castle , the creation of one Evans Cottman, an author and doctor who settled here in 1944, building this crenellated fantasy as his home. Nearby Bay Street , along the harbour, offers a pleasant walk, and leads to an area known as Dundas Town , inhabited mostly by Bahamians of African descent, as well as a number of Haitian immigrants. Don McKay Boulevard is the town's major thoroughfare, home to a number of shopping centres, travel agencies, fast-food joints, ice cream shops and even a few authentic Bahamian restaurants as well. NASSAU Originally a harbour base named Charles Town, NASSAU is the modern-day face of the Bahamas, visited by most everyone who comes down this way, not least for its service as a transport hub. Historical flavour has been preserved to make such a stop here worthwhile. Much of this atmosphere comes from its development during the so-called Loyalist period from 1787 to 1834, when many of the city's finest colonial buildings were built. Before this build-up, Nassau had largely been a haven for pirates, privateers and wreckers, situated as it was on key shipping routes between Europe and the West Indies. But it was really the development of the tourist industry here that put Nassau in The Bahamas firmly on the map. After alternating periods of decline and prosperity in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the spike in trade and construction that followed World War II led directly to Nassau's emergence as a global centre for tourism and finance . By the mid-1950s, with the dredging of the harbour and the construction of the international airport, Nassau began to host more than a million visitors a year, and a decade later, after the construction of the Paradise Island Bridge and the development of Cable Beach, the city was receiving twice as many more TREASURE CAY Although TREASURE CAY is now an exclusive resort, it began life as humble Carleton Point , a settlement of six hundred Loyalists who in 1783 fled the newly formed United States, hoping to develop a major commercial and agricultural centre at the northern end of the former Sand Banks Cay. Although this didn't necessarily occur, Treasure Cay has grown rapidly in recent years, and now supports an array of time-share villas, hotels, condos and upscale resorts. Not really a cay at all, but a slender peninsula , Treasure Cay has its own schools, churches, stores, post office, banks, health clinic and marina. Its beachfront, stretching four miles along the Sea of Abaco , is not as spectacular as other Bahamian beaches, but it is good for swimming and sunbathing. North Americans make up the bulk of the year-round residents of Treasure Cay, Bahamas, who maintain more than 150 expensive vacation and retirement homes. The marina is a favourite with yacht sailors, who make use of its huge dock, featuring a marina store, dive shop, boat rentals, pool, bar and restaurant. Between Treasure Cay's beach and the outer island of Whale Cay are several eye-catching turquoise banks that are especially lovely at dawn and dusk

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