Monday, February 26, 2007

Atlantis Resort - Paradise Island Atlantis is a family entertainment and gaming resort complete with a marina complex, 38 restaurants, bars and lounges, spa, sports centre, 11 swimming areas including water slides in a life-sized Mayan Temple, casino, shops, l8 hole golf course, tennis, Discovery Channel Camp, The Dig (an elaborate underground maze of passageways and rooms representing what life may have been like for Atlanteans more than 11,000 years ago and the huge aquarium complex. The One and Only Ocean Club which was once home to the eccentric multi-millionaire, Huntington Hartford, is now part of the Atlantis complex, as well as the Versailles Gardens which house the Cloisters (French Monastery). We were curious to see what developments had taken place since we last vacationed in a resort adjoining the Atlantis resort, on Paradise Island, during its early construction 15 years ago. We found that the hotel we had stayed in, plus the one beside it have since been taken down to make way for the luxury Atlantis residences. We noted they are selling for $700,000.00 to just over 3 million. We spent two afternoons exploring the complex. We found that we could access the grounds through the dingy dock at the Atlantis marina, so we held our heads high and came in by dingy that way, past the super-mega yachts docked there.

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