11/13/2007 at 12:35 PM
Tags: Film Festivals, Caribbean Travel, Bars, Restaurants, Clubs (all tags)
Any film festival sponsored in part by Donatella Versace is enticing enough, but add warm weather and beaches into the equation, and the Bahamas International Film Festival sounds like a can't-miss event. Running December 6-13, the island's fourth annual festival takes place in Nassau, and features films from both Bahamian and international filmmakers.
Though a trip to the island is usually pricey, the festival is a chance to jump on special offers from well-known Nassau resort Atlantis. Rates start at just $319 for four days and three nights. And with the bevy of airlines flying into Nassau International Airport, festival-goers can search out inexpensive fares from seven different airlines.
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by laurenuta
3/02/2007 at 11:21 AM
Tags: Anna Nicole Smith, Celebrity Tours, Bahamas Tourism, Google Maps (all tags)
Currently, the most popular tour in the Bahamas is the Anna Nicole Tour.
This tour is loosely organized by Nassau cabbies, but it is only a matter of time before some enterprising folks formalize it.
The current Anna Nicole Smith Bahamas taxi tour includes:
· Doctors' Hospital in Nassau, where her son Daniel died last fall.
· Lakeview Memorial Gardens & Mauseoleums where Anna will be buried today (her son was laid to rest there last September)
· Mount Horeb Baptist Church in Nassau, where Anna's funeral will take place today.
· Horizons the seaside home at the eastern end of the island that she shared with Howard K Stern, and which he now shares with Dannielynn, Smith's five-month-old heiress.
Horizons, is the highlight of the tour. All you have to do is ask any cabbie in Nassau for the "Anna Nicole Tour" and off you go--though prices will vary, everything is negotiable.
One cab company is even rumored to offer a limited number of a special Tribune newspaper. The issue being offered was plastered with photos of Anna and Immigration Minister Shame Gibson sharing a bed. In Nassau, the issue sold out immediately, but you can buy your very own for $20.00 at the airport and in certain cabs.
A taxi driver, who offers the Anna Nicole tour to his passengers had this to say:
It's sad that she died but we don't look at the negative. There are persons in the taxi industry who are making money because people come here asking to go to the house, the cemetery and the hospital
If you want to take the tour virtually, we have Google mapped Horizions here, after that, you are on your own (hint: just head west and take John F. Kennedy to the airport)
Related Stories:
· Anna Nicole Smith's Bahamas House [Google Maps]
· Anna Nicole Smith [Jaunted]
by markj
3/29/2006 at 5:25 PM
Tags: Best Free WiFi Spots, WiFi (all tags)
These days everyone is looking for one true go-to WiFi spot. Sure JiWire can give you an exhaustive list, but here at Jaunted we are starting a weekly search for go-to WiFi spots. The rules are simple. The signal has to be free, fast, and reliable, and the spot has to have at least one redeeming quality. Have a city or destination you want us to investigate? Let us know. And if you have a favorite WiFi spot you are willing to share, send it to tipsATjauntedDOTcom.
Nassau Airport :: Domestic Terminal
Sure no one goes to the Bahamas in search of free, four bar WiFi--at least we hope not--however, it was a bit of an Easter egg to discover that the spartan domestic terminal at Nassau Airport came equipped with strong, free, reliable WiFi, courtesy of Batelnet.
We have heard horror stories about telcom in the Caribbean, but this Batelnet hot spot had us thinking setting up shop in the Bahamas might not be a half baked idea after all. See, despite what you read on New York subway posters, the Bahamas won't kill you.
Reedeeming Quality
No one will bother you, and the lone terminal television will more than likely be showing "Who's The Boss".
Related Stories:
· Bahamas Travel [Tourism Site]
by markj
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