Atlantis Paradise Island

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The Royal Towers joined by the Bridge. The Bridge Suite, located in the span, is one of the most expensive hotel suites in the world, costing $25,000 a night.
The Royal Towers joined by the Bridge. The Bridge Suite, located in the span, is one of the most expensive hotel suites in the world, costing $25,000 a night.

The Atlantis is a large resort and casino located on Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas. The resort dominates the island's real estate and employs some 6,000 residents. Atlantis was built by South African hotel and gambling magnate Sol Kerzner part of Kerzner International Limited.

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[edit] Accommodations

Panoramic View from the Royal Towers showing beaches, lagoons and outside attractions.
Panoramic View from the Royal Towers showing beaches, lagoons and outside attractions.

Accommodation at the resort includes:

  • The Beach Tower is the oldest and the original building of Atlantis. It was known as The Paradise Beach Hotel prior to Kerzner's acquisition.
  • The Coral Towers used to be known as the Britannia Beach Hotel.
  • The Royal Towers contains "Bridge Suite" which Forbes ranks as the third most expensive hotel room in the world, at $25,000.[1]
  • Harborside Resort consists of 392 villas and features a harbor-front restaurant, pool area including a children's pool with water fountains, a fitness facility, a sundry store, and all-day shuttle service to Atlantis.
  • The Reef is the newest building at Atlantis consisting of condominium hotel residences.
  • The Cove Atlantis opened on March 28, 2007. It is a 600-suite tower located directly on the ocean and situated between two beaches.

Royal Towers reception lobby

The new Cove Atlantis with The Residences at Atlantis in the Background

Artificial lagoon with water pumped in from the ocean.

Boardwalk

View of the lagoon

View of aquarium and pools from Royal Tower rooms.

Ocean view from Royal Tower

Waterfall at Beach Tower

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[edit] Attractions

[edit] Aquaventure

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Aquaventure opened on February 16, 2007. It is a 63 acre, 200 million gallon waterscape, combining slides, lazy rivers, and rapids into one large, natural setting. Special effects are used heavily throughout. The centerpiece of the attraction is the Power Tower, which contains four waterslides and a rock-climbing wall. All rides in the Aquaventure section end up in one large pool, where guests can get off or carry on into 80 feets' worth of underground caverns.

[edit] The Current

The Current is a water ride. Guests can choose which route to take, each route bringing them to a different part of the ride. The ride is a mile long and has conveyor belts, waves, and artificial tidal surges. It contains three million gallons of water and seven-foot-high lifts and drops.

[edit] The Power Tower

The Power Tower is 60 feet (18 m) high and has several slides to choose from:

  • The Abyss: This body slide has a 55-foot (17 m) near vertical drop through pitch black, quickly takes you outside and then back in, through a water fall ,and finally ending into a cave with 2 large freshwater aquariums surrounding you.
  • The Drop and The Falls: Both of these tube slides utilize the relatively new technology of shooting large amounts of water at a tube that "pushes them" uphill, known as "Master Blaster" technology. They both start at the first level of the Power Tower which is directly below the top and both can be accessed from the river by a lift. The Drop spirals through the dark center of the Power Tower eventually emerging to a few uphill segments, and The Falls has a few drops that total 40 feet (12 m) down and eventually back up ending in twists through the darkness. Both these rides merge at the end and take you to a final pool where you can choose to get out or go around the river again. If you choose the river this enables you to take the stairs back up the Power Tower or a longer journey which eventually leads to a lift back up into the tower.
  • The Surge: A tube slide also utilizing uphill technology that starts at the top of the Power Tower. This ride is only accessible by stairs and not the lift from the river. It drops a total of 58 feet (18 m) down and then pushes you back up through an enclosed section of turns finally ending in a small river where riders are struck by a flash flood. This pushes the guests out of the canal and into the final pool enabling them to get back into the river and eventually take the stairs back up the tower.

The Power Tower water slide complex.

The underground ending to the Abyss slide part of the Power Tower.

[edit] Mayan temple slides

At the Royal Towers is the Mayan Temple entertainment attraction. One of its water slides has a 60-foot (18 m) nearly vertical drop followed by a trip through a clear underwater tunnel that passes through a shark-filled lagoon. The Mayan Temple consists of 4 major slides, which include the: Leap of Faith, the Challenger Slides, the Serpent Slide, and the Jungle Slide.[2]

[edit] The Dig

The Dig is a series of aquariums located beneath the lobby of the Royal Towers and is the world's largest open air marine habitat. Hundreds of different aquatic species can be spotted in the Dig's various tanks such as angelfish, sharks, manta rays, and various types of jellyfish.

The goal of The Dig is to provide guests with a taste of life in the legendary destroyed city of Atlantis. If one observes the bottom of the floors in the different aquariums, wreckage and debris will be scattered about representing the "Lost City of Atlantis."

A Predator Lagoon is full of sawsharks, barracudas and stingrays. A 100-foot (30 m) clear acrylic tunnel runs underwater, allowing visitors unobstructed views of the marine environment.

[edit] The Marina and Marina Village

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The Marina at Atlantis is where yachts and other boats can be docked, and it is located near the Royal Towers. The Marina provides direct boat access to the Atlantis facilities from Nassau Channel and Nassau Harbour.

The new Marina Village is an upscale shopping center containing boutiques and five restaurants.

[edit] Proposed development

An attraction entitled Dolphin Cay will allow visitors to the island the chance to interact with dolphins. The attraction will include an education agenda, focusing on marine life protection and ocean conservation. The Education programme will be sponsored by the Kerzner Marine Foundation. Atlantis intends to upgrade events and meeting provisions available by constructing the Imperial Ballroom with the capability of catering up to 4,000 guests. In addition, several new water slides are planned, as is a new spa and treatment centre to be known as the New Mandara Spa.

[edit] Movies and TV featuring the Atlantis and Paradise Island

  • The old Café Martinique was featured in the on-location filming of the James Bond movie Thunderball (1965).
  • Casino Royale, another James Bond movie released in 2006, was filmed at the Ocean Club on Paradise Island.
  • Scenes of the Beatles on a yacht and beach in their 1965 film Help were shot at Paradise Island.
  • "Friends", an American sitcom, features Atlantis resort as the location of characters Monica and Chandler's honeymoon.

[edit] References

  1. ^ The World's most expensive hotel rooms (2003) (HTML). Forbes Review. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
  2. ^ "Paradise Found", Forbes review

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