Aug 26, 2015 – Aug 30, 2015
The travelers are:
– Mom
– Chị Hương, anh Thân, Danny & Tracy
– Dương, Tim & William (1 year old)
We flew to the Atlantis resort from Miami, U.S.A on the Bahamas Air in the morning. We arrived to the Lynden Pindling International Airport after 1 hour; went thru the custom using the Self Check Kiosks.
To use the kiosk, we need to scan the passport and take the picture using its camera, then it’ll print out a confirmation paper which you will give it to the attendant standing on the exit door.
If necessary you’d need to adjust the camera so that it’ll take the picture of your face only, using the arrows on the screen. I did not know that so the first time it took a horrible picture of my face so I tried to retake the picture. Because of the 2nd try that it put a big red X on my print out. Whenever the attendant sees a big red X on the confirmation paper, they’d redirect to the custom booth; otherwise they’d let us exit which means we’re done with the customs.
Afer clearing the custom check, we had to go thru the luggages check. We brought some fruits from Miami; they took the fruits from us because they don’t allow bringing fruits into Bahamas. The machine did not detect the fruits; they found out only when they randomly asked us to open the big carton box where we put some fruits. I put some more fruits in other suitcases also but they didn’t ask to open them so we got to keep these. So it’s just a matter of luck.
Upon exit the airport door, we waved for the taxi; it was raining really hard! To my surprise, the taxi fare for 7 people cost only $60 total (the shuttle from Atlantis resort costs $33.00/pp round trip). It’d take around only 15 minutes driving from the airport to the Atlantis resort.
The check-in process was very easy, the staff was super friendly, they let us check in early.
The resort was so crowded with tourists; and this time of the year is the storm season!
First impression: the resort is so beautiful and huge!
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