A Minted Location day guide
Dock & Dine in Grand Bahama
Grand Bahama's dock-and-dine answer is short, and it is the marinas that supply it.
Dining here works from a berth rather than from a guest dock. No restaurant on the island advertises patron moorage or a time limit, and none needs to — you are already tied up, and the terms of the tie-up belong to the marina.
What Grand Bahama does have is dining at the dock. Blue Marlin Cove at West End has a restaurant on the property. Old Bahama Bay is a resort marina with food ashore. The Lucaya waterfront is a walk-up strip from the marina basins.
So the instruction for Grand Bahama is to pick the basin, not the table. Berth at West End if you have just crossed and want to clear in and eat without moving the boat again. Berth in Lucaya if you want the waterfront, the fuel dock and the port of entry in the same place. Either way the walk is short and the dockage is the transaction.
The chart below is a navigation diagram of the island's leeward shore rather than a dining strip — the West End landfall, the run down to Freeport Harbour and the yard, and the Lucaya basins at the end.
The stops, as their own docks describe them
| Spot | Where | Arriving by boat |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Marlin Cove — restaurant on the propertyThe clearest dine-at-the-dock option at West End: the restaurant is on the marina property, so you tie up first and the walk is a few steps. The dockage terms are the marina's. | Bootle Bay, West End | Berth first — 70-foot maximum — then walk |
| Old Bahama Bay — eat where you cleared inFor a boat that has just crossed, this is the practical dock-and-dine: clear in, fuel, berth and eat without moving again. | West End | 63 slips to 120 ft over 8 ft mlw; Customs check-in 09:00–17:00 |
| The Lucaya waterfrontThe strip is a short walk from the marina basins, and the basins are the tie-up. Berth at the yacht club — a designated port of entry with a fuel dock — and walk in. | Port Lucaya, Freeport | Berth in the basin and walk |
Dockage notes are what each restaurant publishes on its own site — space is first-come and dinner-hour rafting is real, so hail ahead. Where a venue states nothing about docking, we say so rather than guess.
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