My friend, I agree with AC/DC 110%. If you are expecting the Bahamas to be like US, you are mistaken. Let me tell you the details of my last trip. I hope it will help you make a wise decision. I purchased my package from one of the online travel agent, it was pre-paid. I was promised package price covered my room and board on the ship as well as hotel accommodation in Bahamas however once I got there I had to pay 45 dollars a day extra for the hotel that was the additional charge to cover the tax and gratitude. You are in an unknown island for 3 days, who you going to complain. Where else can you go? The hotel had a travel agency, they promised us to give a free tour of an Island and other gifts in exchange of participating in their promotional tour of their new property for future travel. We were told it only took an hour or so. We were taken to the unknown place and dropped off. The sales man took over 3 hours to sell us the time-share and harassed us every possible ways. Finally, after hours of humiliation and torture they refused to give us anything that they had promised us earlier since we did not buy anything. Again who you going to complain. On top of that, we had to wait for their shuttle for another 2 hours to take us back to the hotel. We returned back exhausted after wasting almost a day of our vacation. Just be careful.