Description
- Round-trip transportation from your Nassau cruise ship terminal!
- Air-conditioned, fully licensed, and insured Nassau shore excursion transportation!
- Food and drink tastings of traditional Bahamas are offered!
- Fresh ingredients and prepared-in-the-moment recipes!
- Sightseeing at major highlights like the Charlotte and Montagu Forts!
- Guided and narrated by professional, English-speaking, local shore excursion guides!
- Small groups, a little walking, perfect for guests with mobility issues!
Sip, sample, and see Nassau! You'll be driven from site to site in comfortable excursion transportation accompanied by an experienced Nassau Food Excursion guide. With both a pickup and a drop off at your Nassau cruise ship pier, you can be assured that all you'll need to do is enjoy the day in the Bahamas.
This Nassau Food Excursion begins when you walk just a few steps away from your Nassau cruise ship terminal. There you'll be met by your cruise excursion guide, receive an orientation, and climb aboard your comfortable, and air-conditioned transportation to Arawak Cay, just 5 minutes away.
At Arawak Cay, you have the chance to visit Drifters Restaurant where you'll be able to enjoy conch fritters and lemonade. There will be a demonstration of cracking open fresh conch and preparation of conch salad that you will get to sample. You'll also enjoy seeing artifacts and pictures of the old Nassau. You'll have approximately 30 minutes in Arawak Cay.
Your next stop will be at the historic Fort Charlotte, just 5 minutes away. The fort rangers will take you on a 20-minute walkabout while giving you information about the history of the fort. If you are lucky enough to visit on a Wednesday or Friday you might catch the reenactment of British soldiers preparing for battle and shooting blanks on the antique cannons.
On the 10-minute ride to your next stop at Tasty Tea's Bush Teas, you will have a panoramic view of the Veteran's and the St. Agnes Cemeteries. There you will have a chance to sip a variety of teas and learn a little about how Bahamians relied on the bush to cure ailments back in the day. There will be time to make purchases if you desire. You will be at Tasty Teas for close to half an hour.
About ten minutes away you will have the opportunity to taste the world-renowned rum cake at the Rum Cake Factory. Traditionally a holiday time cake, Rum Cake is the best in The Bahamas. The Rum Cake Factory has exotic varieties like coconut, pina colada, and chocolate. Cakes are baked on-site and guests are able to watch the process of baking thru packaging and labeling. Samples of each variety are provided. You are welcome to purchase your favorite! You will spend close to half an hour at the factory.
Then you're off for a ten-minute ride to Fort Montagu. Have your camera ready as you'll see the Paradise Island Bridge and the Sir Sidney Poitier Bridge and will be given information about both. You'll also see Potters Cay Dock, which is a market by day and a happy hour hangout at night.
Then you'll arrive at Fort Montagu Cay, drive around the perimeter and see the architecture from 1742. Although much smaller than Fort Charlotte, it was considered quite formidable in its day. You'll have a chance to stop for photos for about ten minutes.
Then you'll head off to Fort Montagu Park for a quick sample of a concoction called a Gully Wash. This is made by a coconut being sliced open, the water inside is mixed with gin and is considered a local favorite.
Then you'll hop back on board your Nassau Food Tasting Excursion transportation for the short 10-minute ride to Drifters for lunch. You'll have a sample plate that will include tamarind glazed wings, coconut-infused peas, and rice, Caribbean coleslaw, fried plantains, and bottled water. You'll have quite the view and close to an hour to relax and enjoy these unique foods. Other food and beverages may be purchased at the guest's expense.
After lunch, you'll be driven back to your Nassau Bahamas cruise ship pier, just ten minutes away.
Where we meet
For the Nassau Food Tasting and Sightseeing Bus Excursion, you will meet just outside your Nassau Cruise Ship Pier. All necessary details will be printed on your Electronic Shore Excursion Ticket.
Cancellation
For the Nassau Food Tasting and Sightseeing Bus Excursion,we issue full refund for your deposit or full payment to us if:
- You want to cancel at any time, for any reason, before or after your arrival. Simply contact us via email reservations@shoreexcursioneer.com within 14 days of your missed excursion date for a deposit refund.
- Your ship arrives into port late and you cannot make it in time to the meeting location.
- Your ship misses/skips the port.
- Weather conditions or equipment failure prevents the operator to run the excursion.
- A medical problem prevents you from safely participating in the excursion (we will verify with the tour operator or guest may send doctor's note).
- Cancellations that do not comply with the above may not be subject to refund. Guests must notify us within 14 days after their excursion date via email for requesting a refund of booking payment made to Shore Excursioneer.
- Refunds may be subject to a service charge fee as determined by the payment processor, please refer to Terms and Conditions for more information.
