Nassau Saunders Beach or Goodmans Bay

[reddgrits]

Would like to hear about recent visits. Thanks!

[reddgrits]

Goodmans Bay

Take the Jitney.

[cruiselova67]

Thank you posting the pictures .  Would you mind answering a few questions? Is this the number 10 Jitney? How far from the port? Are there restrooms and chair rentals available? TIA.

[reddgrits]

We took the #10 there and the #12 back to the port area. We stood across from the pretty red flowered tree and waved down the jitney. It is only about 5 miles away. There was a bathroom. Chairs and jet ski rentals were available but we did not rent either. We spent 3 hours there.

 

[cruiselova67]

Thank you! I think we will stop there in a couple of weeks.

[nimiq]

Would anyone happen to know how much it is to rent chairs and

umbrella's  ?

 

Also if you take the bus do they tell you where to get off ? It’s about how many stops ?

 

Thanks

Sea Ya 

‘Eric 

[nimiq]

Forgot to follow thread 

[reddgrits]

We did not rent chairs or umbrella's but they are available. I think that we got on the jitney about 9:00 and I took the Goodmans Bay sign picture at 9:23. The stops that they make are fast for get on and offs. The driver knew where we wanted to go and while making the stop he looked in the mirrior and said Goodmans Bay here. All of the drivers are very helpful and the other passengers. We have done the jitneys several times .

[CarolRoy]

We were at Goodman's and Saunder's last week.  Took #10 and told the driver we wanted to get off at Goodman's.  He dropped us off at the first entrance for Goodman's.  So we walked quite a way to the second entrance.  Water looked nice but  the beach and water were full of seaweed.  

It was very difficult to get in and out of the ocean because you kept sinking into the sand.  Very rough on your knees.  So we took a taxi back to Saunder's.  They were fixing up the beach with a bulldozer.  No one was there.  We did check out the beach and it was the same as Goodman's - seaweed and difficult getting in and out of the water.  Just like Goodman's, sinking into the sand.

We then took a taxi back to the ship for $5 each.

 

Will be going to Nassau the first week in Dec. and not sure if we want to chance these two beaches again.  

[CarolRoy]

Has anyone been to Goodman's or Saunder's after hurricane Nicole that hit Nov. 9.  Would like to know how the two beaches are in regard to seaweed and difficulty in getting in and out of the water.  See my post above when we were there Oct. 27 after hurricane Ian.

[astridwilson]

Bumping as we will be there next week and these are my top 2 beach choices

[svmodi]

Following as well

[astridwilson]

What we did:

We took the number 10 bus to Goodman’s Bay beach for $1.50 each and arrived before 10AM.  Paid $40 for 2 chairs and an umbrella.  When we first arrived, the beach was very quiet, and they set up our chairs and umbrella.  An hour later, a large crowd from the cruise ship arrived and they set them up in front of us.  The water was beautiful, warm and crystal clear.  Great for swimming but not snorkeling.  We did see a starfish, a large conch coming out of his shell and a school of Jacks swam by.  The beach did have a lot of jet ski activity, banana boats etc.  by noon there were a lot of people from the 3 cruise ships in port.  So, at 12:30 we left and took a taxi for $20 (there were 4 of us) to Saunders beach.  We ate at KFC for $28 for the 4 of us.  Katy and I walked across the street and snorkeled for 45 minutes.  My husband and grandson were hot and tired and wanted to head back to the ship or we would have gone down to the main beach.  We did see lots of small fish and 3 barracudas just across the street, but this is not a swimming beach area.  It was alongside a busy road.  Which is why we chose Goodman’s over Saunders.  The main beach did look nice and there was really no one there.  I wish we had chosen Saunders first.  We then headed back to the cruise port via another taxi for $20.  We could have waited for a bus but didn’t.  We did a little cruise port shopping and headed back to the ship.  

This Trip cost us a total of $116 for bus taxis and lunch.  We could have saved $28, making it $88 if we had waited on buses.  The Blue Lagoon beach excursion would have cost us as a family of 4, $310.