Bahamas For Dummies (Dummies Travel) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
List Price: $17.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 744139
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 364
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0471962503
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.29604
EAN: 9780471962502
ASIN: 0471962503
Publication Date: November 29, 2006
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If you’re planning a Bahamas getaway, this guide gets you in the know and in the mood. You’ll practically feel the sand between your toes and the sea breeze brushing your face. Find out about hot spots, like the well-touristed Nassau, Paradise Island, and Freeport/Lucaya on Grand Bahama Island, and less-visited islands like the Exumas and Abacos that are perfect if you want serious R & R. This guide covers: - An overview of Bahamian customs, music, festivals, cuisine, and “thirst-busters”
- Accommodations ranging from simple Bahamian inns and guesthouses to mega-resorts, and from quaint gingerbread villas to a spectacular beach resort with a kids’ camp
- The best places for all kinds of water sports, including water skiing, banana boat rides, Jet-Skiing, sailing, and parasailing
- Snorkeling and scuba diving, including dramatic reef trips, shark dives, shipwreck dives, and even night dives
- Fishing for wahoo, blue marlin, oceanic bonito, blackfin tuna, snapper, grouper, barracuda, dolphins, and more
- Great places to stay and play if tennis or golf is your game
- Gambling at glamorous casinos and taking in great stage shows
- Shopping for international imports of china, perfume, crystal, gemstones, or watches
- A calendar of events including festivals, tournaments, and local holidays
Like every For Dummies travel guide, Bahamas For Dummies, 4th Edition includes: - Down-to-earth trip-planning advice
- What you shouldn’t miss — and what you can skip
- The best hotels and restaurants for every budget
- Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages
Whether you’re honeymooning or bringing the kids…whether you want to be an adventurous underwater explorer or a contented beach potato…this guide will help you enjoy the many sites and moods of the Bahamas.
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 Very helpful guide April 25, 2008
I found the guide had a lot of useful information about the best hotels, restaurants and tours. This is exactly the information I needed. It also had a great section on the pro's and con's of each major island. This was helpful in figuring out where I wanted to vacation. I have read a lot of information on the web, and frommer's website, but I found this guide to have it organized more efficiently and it is more comprehensive. It was an easy and fun read and also had information on the history of the Bahamas. I really enjoyed it and it helped with my vacation planning.
 Only a Dummy would buy this book and Frommers January 26, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I love to thoroughly research and plan vacations, gleaning recommendations and experiences from as many independent sources as possible. Therefore, I ordered BOTH Frommer's Bahamas 2007 and Bahamas for Dummies to get two different opinions. Bahamas for Dummies repeats Frommer's hotel and restaurant recommendations WORD-FOR-WORD. The Dummies who wrote this book obviously did NO independent research of their own. In fact in turns out Wiley published both books. The only redeeming feature is the cute little post-it flags, that I can stick inside my Frommers guide book!
 Excellent guide,but w/ a few (inconsequential) inaccuracies March 3, 2004
7 out of 18 found this review helpful
I thought this was a great effort to present the true Bahamas, but unfortunately, there are some inaccuracies that seem to confuse The Bahamas with other countries in the West Indies, particularly in referring to the language. Bahamians would never refer to their dialect as patois. (that's Jamaica and other countries). Bahamians just call their English dialect "Bahamian dialect". And some of the words are not in general use as stated, e.g. nyam is Jamaican, and bobo, if used, more usually refers to Rastas, not morons.
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