Nassau sells the same day out forty different ways.
Pigs, turtles, a reef stop and lunch: almost every boat leaving the harbour promises all four. These reviews say which boat, what it costs, and when the Exuma fly-in earns four times the money.
The six days Nassau is built around.
Nine tours in ten on this site leave from Nassau, and most are one of these six days in a different order. Pick the day first, then pick the boat.
Eighty-six pig boats leave Nassau. The difference is the crossing.
It is not the animals that separate these trips — it is the boat, the run out and how much else the day carries. Rose Island is thirty minutes each way and back by mid-afternoon. Exuma is a powerboat marathon or a light aircraft. The pigs live on those beaches and how close they come is their own business, so book the day you want on the water and take the rest as weather.
What Nassau actually books.
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1
Bites of Nassau Food and Walking Tour
A small-group walking and tasting tour of historic Nassau with five food stops, a rum cocktail, local history, and standout views.
From · $99
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2
3 Islands Tour, Snorkel, Pig Beach, Turtles & Lunch
from $136
3
Nassau Island Highlights Sightseeing Tour
from $80
4
Pirate Jeep Sightseeing Adventure!
from $165
5
Swimming Pigs and Private Beach Club Escape
from $149
6
Sandy Toes The Original Rose Island and Swimming Pigs Tour
from $258
7
Pigs, Snorkel, Turtles, Lunch, Private Beach Club
from $139
8
Rum Tasting and Food Walking Tour in Nassau Bahamas
from $98
9
ATV Island Tour with Beach Break (Everyone Drive their Own ATV)
from $100
What a Bahamas day costs, from the walking tour up.
Every reviewed tour sorted by its lead price. Read the small print in the middle band — some prices are per person and some are for the whole boat.
Food and history walks through town, the bus loop, a half-day snorkel run, and the transfer in from the airport.
The standard Nassau boat day: pigs, turtles, a reef stop, lunch and a beach club in one ticket.
Exuma fly-ins, four-hour private charters and the days where the boat belongs to your group alone.
In Nassau the shallow water is the attraction, not the backdrop.
Sea grass under two metres of water is why the green turtles feed here and why a clear-bottomed kayak photographs the way it does. The drone-photo kayak trips work the same stretch of flats; the snorkel boats run the reef edge further out. Neither one wants you feeding or handling what you find.
The cays Nassau keeps a boat running to.
Rose Island, Pearl Island and the Paradise Island side are close enough that the crossing is part of the morning rather than the whole of it. Each sells the same shape of day — a beach, a lunch, a snorkel stop — and the difference is the crowd size and whether the bar is in the price.
- 1Sandy Toes The Original Rose Island and Swimming Pigs Tourfrom $258
- 2Rose Island Adventure: Snorkel, Sea Turtles, and Private Beachfrom $139
- 3Rose Island Swimming Pigs and Beach Day Group Tourfrom $109
By island — where the tour actually runs
Nassau & New Providence383 tours
Grand Bahama & Freeport26 tours
The Exumas16 tours
Rose Island36 tours
Pearl Island8 tours
Paradise Island16 tours- Every reviewed tour →
Nassau’s old town is a short walk and a long history.
Fourteen walking and bus tours cover the same few streets: Parliament Square, the two forts above the harbour, and the Queen’s Staircase — sixty-six steps cut out of the limestone by enslaved people in the late eighteenth century. Guides who say so are worth the money; guides who point at the steps and move on are not, and the reviews are usually clear about which one you are getting.
Getting off the plane at Lynden Pindling and onto a beach.
Sixty tours here are transfers, because for most arrivals that is the first booking of the trip. Two things set the price: whether the quote is per person or per vehicle, and whether it covers both directions. Neither is obvious from a listing, so the reviews matter more than the headline number.
See all 60 transfers →- 01Round Trip Private Airport To Hotel Transfer in NassauQuoted for the vehicle and both directions — good value once there are three of you, poor alone.
- 02One Way Private Bahamas Airport Transportation with Free WifiOne direction only. Book the return as a second ticket and you pay the pickup twice.
- 03Roundtrip Airport Transfers Grand Lucayan Resort FreeportA Freeport run, not a Nassau one — different island, different airport, so check before you book.
- 04Atlantis Private Luxury Roundtrip Airport TransferStraight to the Paradise Island bridge, which is where the resort transfer premium shows up.
Grand Bahama and the Exumas, counted properly.
Nine tours in ten here leave from Nassau. These two are the rest of the archipelago as this archive can actually cover it — a real page each, and no pretence that the map is evenly filled.
Freeport and the East End
Grand Bahama is a separate arrival: its own airport, its own cruise berth, and a run of resort day passes rather than a harbour full of tour boats. The trips worth the fare head the other way — mangrove kayaking out at Sweetings Cay, a drift snorkel over the blue hole, a morning cooking Bahamian food at the East End.
- 1Paradise Cove Day Pass with Pickup from Freeport★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 274 reviews
- 2Swim with Pigs on a Tropical Island★★★★★★★★★★ 3.5 · 182 reviews
- 3Blue hole, drift snorkeling, turtles Celebration Key is welcome★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 119 reviews
Exuma, by powerboat or by plane
The Exuma cays sit about 130km from Nassau, which is why these trips split so cleanly. The powerboat is a full day and a hard ride in any wind. The fly-in costs several times more and hands back the afternoon. Both finish at the same sandbars and the same beach; what you are buying is the four hours in between.
- 1Exuma Elite Escape: Luxury Fly-In Pig Beach Adventure – 7 Stops★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 504 reviews
- 2Exuma Island Hopping Swimming Pigs Tour with Lunch from Nassau★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 482 reviews
- 3Exuma Powerboat Tour from Nassau with Swimming Pigs★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 474 reviews
Nassau does not do a late night. It does a good evening.
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