Post: #1

My trip to the Atlantis came up on another thread so I thought I'd do a scouting report.
I was at the Atlantis for about 5 days in June. That was my first trip to Nassau. The accommodations in my part of the hotel were just OK but the rates were reasonable. The crowd was mostly older couples, kids, teenagers. Really there were just a ridiculous amount of kids everywhere. It was very hard to pick single women out of the crowd. The dance club is decent and people come from other hotels and resorts to go out there. Even there there were tight knit groups and couples. There is a higher priced part of the resort called The Cove. Here there are no kids allowed and you aren't allowed to enter the pool area unless you are a guest of the Cove. I managed to make some friends with some people staying there and posing as one of them, scammed a wirst band. The pool there is just like you might see in a rap video. Very oppulant. Good music. Low level celebs when I was there. I saw Vanilla Ice there and met the Gotti kids entourage. I later had drinks off of the Gotti's bottle service at the club. I had very poor luck at the Atlantis. I was making some progress with some 19 year old girls I met in the tube ride on the my last day there but I had to run to catch my plane. Girls I was chatting up at the Cove pool would dip to the fist celebrity to show up.

My last two days there I figured out a system. I left the resort and headed to cheap bars frequented by college girls. The Senior Frog's at the cruise terminal was great. Since the Atlantis resort and casino are the biggest attraction on the island it was easy to get girls to come back with me to check it out. I've been trying to figure out other locations where this would work, stay at the nicest place in town and troll the dive bars for young/broke chicks to bring back. Of course staying at a cheap hotel near the dive bar might work even better and save some money.

In general I can't really recommend the Atlantis. You might have some luck throwing some money around at the dance club or the Cove pool or you could try the system I worked out. Next time I would look for a resort with a younger crowd.

Post: #2

Strip clubs.
The cab drivers will encourage you to check out the strip clubs. You should probably skip it. I was in Nassau completely solo but I did go out with a guy I met at the bar at the Atlantis. We ended up at a "strip club". These must be illegal in Nassau. I was led through three steel doors with peep holes before I got to the shabby small single room club. The girls were not great looking, all were hookers. I was not real comfortable there but the guy I went in with went home with one of the girls. At that place and several other places I went that week, I was the only white person out at 2 or 3 in the morning. The locals were very cool and no one had anything bad to say or even gave me a dirty look.

Post: #3

(11-22-2010 05:26 PM)Heathcliff01 Wrote:  Atlantis ... I left the resort and headed to ... Senior Frog's at the cruise terminal

Good move. The Atlantis waterpark attracts families with kids. The Cove's Cain Pool is adults-only, but this section is priced out of reach of most young women. Indeed, younger guests are often on honeymoons or other family vacations. BTW, guests at Comfort Suites get free wristbands for Atlantis, I think four wristbands per room.

I think women are overrepresented in Caribbean travel and cruises. You could try May vacations when teachers get summer vacation. The danger is that the kids get vacation too.

Post: #4

Thanks, guys. I've wondered about the Bahamas a few times. Heathcliff's system could be employed on Maui, where I have been. I stayed in a condo there, but whether staying in a hotel or condo, the move would be to cruise by the Banana Bungalow hostel there. Find the nearby bar and troll for the hostel honeys from Australia (or USA or Japan or wherever) to party with. I suppose this could be done on Oahu, too.

Post: #5

I'll be headed to South Beach in the spring with the same group of guys from my Vegas trip and I could see pulling the same system using the Delano as home base. The other guys aren't as into gaming young girls as I am and will think I'm craze when I tell them I want to skip the club and head to Wet Willies or the Sandbar.

Post: #6

Delano actually has a pretty good bar scene. If you are staying there what I would highly recommend is to stock on liquor in your room, strike up a convo w/some chicks down by the pool, then stay "hey, look, 'we're staying here, gonna save $100 by making the next round up in our room, wanna come up stairs and grab a drink" and i guarantee they will because drinks are that expensive there.

Post: #7

any recent info on places to stay/nightlife in bahamas?

Post: #8

I'm actually in the Bahamas now an will be for a few months...
This place is paradise as a place to be.... not so much as a place to game.
If I had Misses (if she existed) here with me, I'd be living the dream as they say

Post: #9

Atlantis was a lot of fun when I was there. The waterpark is just seriously fun for anyone into that.

Casino is stock standard. Clubs are all very expensive and super wanky but if you're good at making friends with trust fund babies then it can be a very cheap night (this is what I did several nights), honestly given the cost of the club the level of talent there was very sub-par. Remember multiple nights where there were maybe 2 or 3 WB types that weren't coupled up hard.

The Cove is a cool pool and beach area, had no trouble just waltzing in and then made friends anyway so wasn't going to get kicked out, no celebrities when I was there, just the trust fund baby types, women were decent as a result.

Also agree on trolling other parts of town, bunch of bars near the cruise ship docks that had plenty of talent when I was there and were the best spot in general as the Atlantis is all families and couples basically.

Beaches were very nice, didn't manage to hop on to other islands while there but I imagine that would be the way to do it.

It's not a very single traveler friendly destination though from my experience. It's basically table service or bust at the bar, most of the accommodation is super nice villas that are designed to host a family or big group and thus are priced to that.

Post: #10

(11-22-2010 05:26 PM)Heathcliff01 Wrote:  Since the Atlantis resort and casino are the biggest attraction on the island it was easy to get girls to come back with me to check it out. I've been trying to figure out other locations where this would work, stay at the nicest place in town and troll the dive bars for young/broke chicks to bring back.

I try to stay at W hotels when I travel for business. They are not really any more expensive than a regular business hotel but they sometimes have this allure. Its not the attraction that the Atlantis is but its about the closest thing I can come up with. The people staying there are usually the fun crowd, and most of them have a decent bar and staff.