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Keith’s Perspective on Atlantis Resort and Marina and Palm Cay Marina in Nassau, Bahamas/Le point de vue de Keith sur Atlantis Resort and Marina et Palm Cay Marina à Nassau, Bahamas

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This week has been very fun. On Saturday, we didn’t do much, we drove around in the dinghy. On Sunday, we didn’t do anything. On Monday morning, we went to the city of Nassau. The drive there was scary. There were a bunch of people who didn’t follow any of the boating rules. We stayed at a resort/waterpark called Atlantis with a little marina. The rest of Monday was at the water park. We spent Tuesday and Wednesday going to the water park.

Resort’s lobby

Cette semaine était amusante. Samedi on n’a pas fait beaucoup de choses, on s’est promené en radeau. Dimanche on n’a rien fait. Lundi matin nous nous sommes déplacés à la ville de Nassau. La route était effrayante. Il y avait beaucoup de personnes qui ne respectaient pas toutes les règles de conduite de bateau. On est resté au resort / parc aquatique qui s’appelle Atlantis, qui avait une petite marina. Le reste du Lundi on a joué au parc aquatique. Mardi et Mercredi on a joué au parc aquatique.

Fountain at the entrance to the waterpark
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Atlantis Waterpark — Day 3

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025 — We arrived at the park at 0930 so we could go on The Serpent Slide before the rest of the rides opened. We exited the ride right at 1000 and went straight to the river just as it opened. Today, the waves from the wave machine were noticeably bigger, there were a lot more breaking waves, and the ride moved faster. A couple of days ago, Christi had overheard a patron complaining to a lifeguard about the wave machine being turned down. The lifeguard had said there’d been too many accidents. The patron had said he understood why Atlantis needed to do that since, over the last few weeks, the Bahamas had been full of drunk, stupid 18 year old high school seniors on their spring breaks (the legal drinking age in the Bahamas is 18). We were wondering if Atlantis felt comfortable turning up the wave machine now that most spring breaks were over.  

At 1230, we started scoping out food options. One of the employees told us that the round building across the lagoon from Shake Shack was a Mexican restaurant called Crocodilo. Since Mexican food was our favorite, we were sold!  

From the waterslides, we walked over one of the lagoon bridges to the back the lagoon/ocean. Just to give you a sense of how big the resort was, the first shot was looking back at the main hotel from just beyond the bridge, and the second photo was of the restaurant, taken from the bridge.

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Atlantis Waterpark — Day 2, Part 2

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continued… The Mayan Temple four waterslides, and two went through a shark tank.

If you look carefully, you can see the sharks in the tank. The rectangular tube on the left was an inner tube ride called The Serpent Slide, the one on the right was called Leap of Faith and did not have an inner tube. Eric and Keith wanted to do the Leap of Faith first. Christi opted not to go. It was a straight drop down into the shark tank, and they moved through the tank extremely quickly.

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Atlantis Waterpark — Day 2, Part 1

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 – Today we were all wearing water shoes — yesterday, we’d been in flip-flops and we realized water shoes were a better choice for the park. According to the material we’d been given at the marina office, the pools and beaches opened at 0900, but the waterslides and Rapid River didn’t open until 1000. Knowing that it would take a half-hour to get to the waterpark, at 0925, we called for a golf cart to pick us up.

When the golf cart dropped us off, we couldn’t believe how long the line was to buy tickets. We were happy to be by-passing that line! We joined a mob of people all speed walking through the long stretch between the entrance and the waterpark itself.

Now that we’d scoped out the park, we’d formulated a strategy to maximize the number of rides we went on today: start at the river entrance (stop 1), exit the river at stop 7, which was where the entrance to the Power Tower was, and take our inner tubes with us to the Tower slides. The waterslides let out near stop 6, then we could get off again at stop 7 and do that loop over and over again until we’d had our fill of those inner tube rides.

As anticipated, we reached the rides around 0955. We were surprised to see that a waterslide at the Mayan Temple was already running, and looked like it had been for a while. The river had not opened yet, though, and we were one of the first ones on it.

This time, Eric and Christi got a two-person tube, and they stuck close to Keith.

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Atlantis Waterpark — Day 1

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continued... Now that we were finally inside the park, we wandered around, trying to find a towel kiosk. We did eventually find one at the far end of the park.

One of the many swimming pools in the water park

Once we got our wristbands, we decided that we wanted to ride the Rapid River first. According to the map, there were nine stops where one could get on and off the river. We went to the stop closest to the kiosk and realized that no one was getting off their inner tubes, which meant no inner tubes were available for us to get on. We realized we needed to go to the the river’s entrance, stop one, in order to get on.

We got a little lost trying to find the entrance to the river, but eventually found it. We each grabbed individual inner tubes. Eric and Keith raced down, while Christi just let the river push her along. The first half of the river was powered by a wave machine that made gentle swells that pushed the tubes along.

the wave machine
floating under the footpath
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