Atlantis- Paradise Island Royal Towers
Most upscale lodging in Atlantis, Paradise Island
Theme towers
These spire-topped towers contain 1,201 rooms and embody the Lost Continent theme offered by the water-park and marine-life Atlantis resort on Paradise Island, which connects by bridge to Nassau.
Day/night family fun
Attractions include 11 swimming areas, water slides, saltwater sports lagoon, 3-mile beach, health spa, casino, 35 restaurants/bars, children's/teens' clubs, and 34 acres of marine-life lagoons.
Step-out balconies
Spacious tropical-decor guestrooms include walk-out balconies, dining sets, and marble vanities, while Imperial Club rooms include access to a lounge offering complimentary food/cocktail service.
What to expect: Designed after the mythical Lost Continent of Atlantis, this resort expanded from a casino destination into a family destination by including vast water-park and marine-life attractions. Royal Towers embodies a full-blown expression of the Atlantis motif, a colossus formed of stone and held together by gigantic, weathered-bronze joints.
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Amenity highlights: All Atlantis facilities are accessible from all three towers (the others are Beach Tower and Coral Tower). Royal Towers contains the Mandara Spa and Casino. Adjacent are the Royal Baths Pool, the Mayan Temple Water Slides and Pool, and Ripples Kid's Pool and Slides. Also adjacent are the marine-life exhibits, Mayan Temple Predator Lagoon, Ruins Lagoon, and The Dig, an underground web of mythological Atlantis "ruins" that contains huge windows offering underwater views of over 70,000 marine animals representing 250 species.
Insider tip: Opened in 2005 and located 300 yards from the resort, Marina Village includes international brand-name shops, Bahamian arts/crafts vendors, five restaurants (including Carmines of New York and Johnny Rockets), Jamba Juice, and the Caribbean’s first Starbucks.
Property Amenities
Mandara Spa showcases an Asian theme via white marble, sisal rugs, Balinese artifacts, and aqua acrylics. The 11,500-square-foot spa offers a rain shower, steam room, and sauna; women's and men's relaxation lounges; and an open-air pavilion with saltwater Thalassotherapy pool. The pool is heated, jetted, and has a diameter of 30 feet (surcharges for spa use without treatment.)
In Coral Towers, a two-story library offers computers that provide 15 minutes of complimentary Internet access, daily. Wireless Internet access is available at Plato's Lounge (Royal Tower) and in the Coral and Beach Tower lobbies for a daily surcharge.
Valet parking:
The cost is $5-$15 per 24-hour period with no in/out privileges.
Ground transportation:
Shuttle vans and private cars of varying prices are available. They can be reserved during the process of booking a reservation for this hotel, via this Web site, and added to the total trip cost.
Rooms
Designed like a grand palace on the mythical lost continent of Atlantis, Royal Towers offers 1,201 guestrooms in two salmon-colored wings topped by weathered-bronze spires and connected at the ground-floor level. The East Wing rises in three levels of 12, 16, and 24 stories. The West Wing rises in levels of 16 and 20 stories. Called Great Hall of Waters, the large and fanciful lobby features a three-story dome ceiling, intricately carved columns, and vividly colored frescos of Atlanteans' imagined life.
Royal Towers rooms are larger than those in the Coral Towers and the Beach Tower. Royal Towers' rooms have step-out, rather than full balconies. Tropical decor includes sand-colored walls, crown molding, light-colored furniture, and coral-motif fabrics.
Imperial Club rooms are located on floors 17-24, and guests have access to a private 19th-floor lounge staffed by a concierge from early morning to late night. Furnished with a television and dining tables, the lounge provides panoramic ocean views. Guests are served complimentary Continental breakfast, afternoon tea, evening cocktails/appetizers, and after-dark sweets. (Note: Upon arrival, Imperial Club guests should identify themselves to the doorstaff, to be escorted to the Sun Lounge for registration.
Room Amenities
* Cable/satellite TV
* Premium TV channel(s)
* Pay movies
* Hypo-allergenic bedding available
* Balcony
* Complimentary newspaper
* Air conditioning
* Climate control
* Blackout drapes
* Multi-line phone
* Internet access - dial-up
* Voice mail
* Minibar
* Wake-up calls
* Housekeeping (daily)
* Turndown service (on request)
* Shower/tub combination
* Complimentary toiletries
* Hair dryer
* Child care (in room, surcharge)
* Electronic check-out
* Electronic/magnetic keys
* Television
* Iron/ironing board
* In-room safe
* Window opens
* Clock radio
* Rollaway beds
* Cribs (infant beds) available
* Smoking rooms
Atlantis includes over 35 restaurants, bars, and lounges as well as poolside snack/beverage carts. The following restaurants are located in Royal Towers:
Café at the Great Hall of Waters - Fine dining. Glass-wall backdrop displaying marine life in Ruins Lagoon. Three-story vaulted ceiling. American breakfasts. Lunch choices such as ahi burgers; Atlantic swordfish club sandwich. Dinner choices such as Caribbean quesadillas, veal chop with spinach. English afternoon tea, including Caribbean iced teas. Pianist featured at night.
Fathoms - Seafood dinner restaurant with glass-wall backdrop displaying marine life in Ruins Lagoon. Choices such as grilled grouper, seafood pepperpot. Also, lounge and raw bar.
The Marketplace - International theme. Features theme-dining alcoves decorated with wines, spices, and flowers from around the world. Global buffet includes seafood, pasta, and sushi from made-to-order food stations. Open for lunch, dinner.
Plato's - Indoor/outdoor lounge serving Continental breakfast, coffee drinks, power drinks, snacks, desserts, cocktails. Spanish guitarist.
Notable restaurants elsewhere in the resort:
Carmines - Located in Marina Village. Offers dining experience of famous New York landmark restaurant. Family-style dining. Classic Italian recipes include Chicken Scarpariello, Shrimp Scampi, Fried Calimari, and Veal Saltimbocca.
Seafire Steakhouse - Located in Marina Village. Modern steakhouse atmosphere. Menu includes classic shrimp cocktails; Pressed Coriander Crusted Beef Carpaccio; Lemon-pepper Tuna, Sweet Bahamian Lobster Tail, and fine cuts of prime beef. Signature martinis; fine wines.
Water's Edge - In Coral Tower. Overlooking Water's Edge Lagoon. Buffet breakfast and dinner offered; antipasto bar, family-style Italian dishes.
Villa D'Este - In Coral Tower. Fine-dining dinner restaurant. Northern Italian cuisine. Frescoed ceiling. Etched glass. Marble bar.
Mama Loo's - Intimate fine-dining dinner restaurant with dark-wood ceiling, banquettes. Chinese cuisine such as five-spice duck, lobster tail, Singapore noodles.
Bahamian Club - In Coral Tower. Steakhouse. Green walls, green ceilings, dark-wood trim. Sepia Bahamian family photos on walls. Steaks, prime rib, lamb, salmon. Dinner only.
Seagrapes - In Beach Tower. Casual, colorful spot displaying masks from The Bahamas' annual Mardi-Gras-like Junkanoo parade. Seagrapes Circus (jugglers, clowns, stilt walkers, face painters, balloon artists) featured Thursday–Saturday. Breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets. “Kids Korner” dining section/menu.
The Cave Bar and Grill - In Beach Tower. Open-air lunch spot featuring underwater views of marine life. Burgers, hot dogs, salads, ice cream.
Entertainment
Marine Habitat - Eleven exhibit lagoons (lighted at night) covering 34 acres with 70,000 fish and sea creatures (250 species). Special exhibits for turtles, seahorses, jellyfish, lobsters, crabs, lionfish, piranhas, moray eels. Children's touch-tank filled with sealife.
Atlantis Casino - Open 24 hours. 50,000-square-foot space displaying four large Dale Chihuly glass sculptures. Slot and video-poker machines. Baccarat, roulette, craps, blackjack, Caribbean stud poker, three-card poker, Let It Ride. Race-and-sports book. High-limit area with Baccarat Lounge for Champagne, caviar, chilled seafood.
Dragons Nightclub - Adjacent to casino. Black-granite bar, video wall, immense sculptures of dragon pairs. Live dance music nightly.
Atlantis Theater - Located in Convention Center Rotunda. Recent Hollywood hit movies featured.
Atlantis Kids Camp - Supervised sessions (surcharges) offered half-day, full-day, and in the evening for children ages 4-12. Science lab housing snakes, fish, sharks' jawbones, microscopes for analyzing discoveries during field trips, and telescopes for stargazing. Educational computer programs. Website-creation lessons. Digital cameras for field trips.
Recreation
Atlantis recreational facilities feature:
Eleven freshwater swimming areas, including family pools, children's pools, Goombay Water Slide & Baths, and lazy river for tube rides.
Paradise Lagoon, a seven-acre saltwater swimming and water-sports area with snorkeling gear, kayaks, and pedal boats available for rent.
Three miles of Atlantic Ocean beaches flanking Paradise Lagoon.
Five waterslides built into a six-story Mayan Temple include The Leap of Faith, a 60-foot, nearly vertical plunge through a clear acrylic tunnel submerged in a shark-filled lagoon; a 48-foot corkscrew slide transporting tube riders through the Temple's dark core; and shorter, gentler children's slides connecting cascading pools.
Sports center with six lighted clay and hard-surface tennis courts (surcharges); 27-yard, four-lane lap pool; 9,000-square-foot fitness facility (surcharges) with free weights, cardio and weight machines, steam rooms, and workout studio for aerobics, spinning, kickboxing, yoga, and Pilates (surcharges).
Guests may use the private Tom Weiskopf-designed 18-hole championship Ocean Club Golf Course 1.5 miles from the resort at the east end of Paradise Island. (Complimentary shuttle service to course.)
Independent operators offer parasailing and personal watercraft rentals on the beach.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.
* Golfing nearby
* Golf - driving range nearby
* Golf - miniature
* Boat launch nearby
* Swimming on site
* Sailing nearby
* Scuba diving nearby
* Jet skiing on site
* Snorkeling on site
* Tennis on site
* Basketball on site
* Volleyball on site
* Aerobics on site
* Pilates classes/instruction on site
* Yoga classes/instruction on site
* Scooter/Moped Rentals nearby
* Horse riding/rental nearby
* Parasailing on site
* Helicopter/airplane sightseeing nearby
* Fishing nearby
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