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Where to Smoke, Drink and WiFi When Flying Out of Nassau

Where: Nassau, Bahamas
February 9, 2012 at 1:45 PM | by | Comments (0)

Work on the new international arrivals hall at Nassau's Lynden Pindling International Airport is still underway—but the departures areas are looking pretty nice and, as far as we could tell when flying out on Monday, functioning faster than they did in the past.

One improvement you may be interested in if you like a cigar or a stiff drink before waving goodbye to the Bahamas is the Graycliff Divan Airport Lounge.

This spinoff of the Graycliff hotel, restaurant and cigar company opened its double lounge—one smoking, one non-smoking—last spring opposte Gate C41 in the US departures terminal.

You may not realize it's an airport lounge at first because it looks like a tschotske-filled boutique—and in fact it is. To register for access to your lounge of choice, you must enter through the gift shop.

We were given a free pass to use the lounge by our hotel in the Bahamas, One & Only Ocean Club, but you can also make reservations in advance online or, if there's room, roll on up and ask to pay for access.

You can get in for just $10, and if you pay $15 that bags you a soft drink or something alcoholic from the bottom shelf of the bar. If you shop at the boutique and spend $25 or over, you also get free access to the lounge.

We were only there for long enough to down a Coke, watch some ESPN and check our email—although we had to ask for the WiFi code—but it was a surprisingly pleasant way to pass 20 minutes. Better than sitting en masse at our gate, anyway.

We opted for the non-smoking lounge, but if you head to the smoking side, you also have access to the outdoor patio—for one last gasp of fresh, Bahamian air before you board. [Photos: Jaunted; exterior: Graycliff's Facebook]

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