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The most expensive time to stay is the winter. The cheapest is hurricane season in the fall and next cheapest the spring.

The Royal Tower is the nicest, then the Coral, and Beach. The rooms are not spectacular for the price, unless you pay a lot more than normal.

If you want to eat cheaply, eat in town. Also, there are much cheaper places to stay in the Bahamas than Atlantis. The fancier restaurants at Atlantis are mostly excellent, including the two restaurants at the Ocean Club and the steak place. Bimini Road or whatever is good, particularly for mixed drinks and authentic island food. The oriental reataurant in the casino is good. The Chinese restaurant is pretty bad. The Jewish deli and the Waters Edge are also awful.

Atlantis is very nicely done as far as the lobbies and so on. It is kind of a protective fantasy land that shelters you from the reality of a third world country. It seems a little like a plantation where the locals serve you. That being said, it is really a spectular place and I really enjoyed it when I stayed there twice with expenses paid for tournaments.

There are a lot of things you can do with boat trips, scuba diving and stuff like that around Atlantis or elsewhere in the Bahamas. The town of Nassua is filled with shops selling local crafts such as wood carvings and duty free goods, such as liquor, jewelry, and British goods.