Start from 31 curated places around Nassau, BS, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Graycliff Restaurant
A long-celebrated formal dining room in a 1740s plantation house next door to Government House, with one of the largest private wine cellars in the region. Chateaubriand, classical French cooking, dress-up evening.
Cafe Matisse
Italian restaurant in a Bay Street courtyard, walls hung with reproduction Matisse cutouts — fresh pasta, risotto, seafood, a serious wine list. The downtown nicer-dinner room.
Trails & outdoors
Clifton Heritage National Park Trails
Coastal national park at New Providence's western tip with walking trails through old Loyalist plantation ruins, a sculpture trail, mangroves and a small beach. About 8km of trails total.
The Retreat Garden
Eleven-acre tropical garden in Village Road central to Nassau, home to the National Trust HQ — the largest collection of mature palms in the country, a quiet loop trail. Twenty minutes of pottering.
Things to do
Arawak Cay Fish Fry
Strip of 30+ colourful Bahamian seafood shacks west of central Nassau — conch in every form, live music most nights, a cheap-and-loud evening built around eating. The single most local experience in the city.
Aquaventure Water Park
Atlantis's 141-acre water park — 14 pools, 20 million gallons, the famous Leap of Faith waterslide that drops through a shark tank, the Serpent Slide tube through aquariums. Best half-day with kids in the city.
Landmarks & sights
Queen's Staircase
Sixty-six steps cut by enslaved people from solid limestone in the late 1700s, leading up to Fort Fincastle. Cooler in the shaded gorge than the streets above; the city's most-photographed historical site.
Fort Charlotte
Largest of Nassau's surviving forts, never fired in battle, with dungeons, dry moats and a panorama over the harbour. Free to wander; guided tours by costumed actors for a small fee.