Grand Bahama Honeymoon

Discover a choice of sugar-white beaches edged by lavish resorts and duty free stores and offering a vibrant nightlife with fine dining restaurants, bars, nightclubs and casino action.

The third most popular holiday island in the Bahamas, Grand Bahama is less than half an hour by air from Miami. The 81km-long island paradise also offers some of the world’s best snorkelling and diving.

Things to do and see
Sunbathe on the gorgeous white sands of Xanadu Beach and Lucaya Beach, both flanked with a choice of resorts. Enjoy water sports including parasailing, Hobie Cats, kayaking, banana boats, water skiing, jet skiing and windsurfing. Choose from a selection of hotels and resorts to suit all budgets, mainly located along the Lucaya Beach area and in Freeport.

Grand Bahama is renowned for scuba diving and offers a choice of offshore reefs to dive, including the Wall, the Caves (site of Theo's Wreck), Treasure Reef, Spit City, Ben Blue Hole, Silver Point Reef and the Rose Garden. Several premier dive centres (such as Underwater Explorers Society – UNEXSO – one of the world's most respected diving facilities) offer reef trips, shark, wreck and night dives as well open-water encounters with friendly Atlantic bottlenose dolphins at the Dolphin Experience in Sanctuary Bay.

For some of the best snorkelling, head to the coral gardens at Silver Point Reef, Gold Rock and Ben's Cave at the Lucayan Caves at the Lucayan National Park, one of the world’s largest underwater cave systems. Here you can experience a 9.5km-long, shallow, underground freshwater cave system with waters inhabited by freshwater marine species including shrimp, mosquito fish and freshwater eels.

The 16ha preserve also offers hiking and biking trails through the island's five ecosystems – pine forests, rocky coppice, mangrove swamps, whiteland coppice and sand dunes. Look out for colourful orchids, hummingbirds and barn owls along the way.

Hook up a charter from one of the many operators and chase mahi-mahi, snapper, grouper, yellowtail, wahoo, barracuda and kingfish. Tee-off at the Lucayan Country Club, which now boasts two 18-hole, par-72 golf courses designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. Tennis fans should head to the Ace Tennis Centre at the Westin & Sheraton at Our Lucaya Resorts, with four courts of different surfaces (including grass).

Accommodation
Grand Bahama offers a choice of accommodation options to suit all budgets.

Best time to visit Grand Bahama?
The best time for a romantic honeymoon getaway in Grand Bahama is from November to April, when temperatures average a balmy 24°C with cooling trade winds.

Temperatures average 28°C during the rest of the year, with the temperature dropping about 5°C after dark. Summer, from May to October, is the rainy season. June through to November marks the official hurricane season (probably best avoided). For more climate info: Bahamas Weather Guide

Location – Grand Bahama is the fourth-largest island in the Bahamas after Andros, Eleuthera and Great Abaco. The Bahamas comprise a chain of more than 700 islands (of which less than 30 are inhabited) and 2000 cays (small isles) that stretch for 96km across the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Florida.

Getting there – By air, Freeport’s Grand Bahama International Airport receives daily flights from Miami as well as from Nassau on New Providence Island. How to get to Freeport . . .