East End Private Day Trip Experience Tour

Highlights

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Itinerary

1. After I pick you up at the Freeport harbour, we have two optional stops The Bahamian Brewery where we make seven different types of beer and the Bahamas Distilling Co, where we make five types of rum and a gin. After that we then visit The Open Air Farmer's Market where you get to try the best conch fritters on the island and shop for those unique souvenir items. The local vendors are small mom and pop type operations and they mostly only take cash so please be sure to bring extra cash for your shopping and other incidentals. For any of you Art Lovers, we do have Mosaic where many of our local resident artists are exhibiting. Please let me know if you would like to stop at Mosaic before we head into Lucaya to our next stop which will be the Port Lucaya Marketplace for more shopping. This is your private exclusive daytrip and I do ask that you communicate with me before you arrive about your interests and what you would like to see and do. Please call#1(242)7276506 what's app anytime.

   40 min

2. Our next stop is Port Lucaya Marketplace where you have lots more local vendors with bigger stalls. There is the Bahamas Maritime Museum which tells you all about our history and culture with an amazing collection of artifacts and sunken treasure from a shipwreck in our waters. There is also Bootleg Chocolates, where we make chocolates with local fruit flavors. There are large jewelry stores such as Pandora, Colombian Emeralds Intl. and Freeport Jewellers for you to add a special trinket to your jewelry box. We tour as long as you need to make sure you get all of your souvenir shopping done. For you Art Afficionados, there is also a local Bahamian artist in his studio so we definitely will make a stop there for you to find that special work of art to take home with you. He accepts credit cards as well as the larger jewelry stores, the Bahamas Maritime Museum and Bootleg Chocolates. We will need at least 30 to 45mins here to tour and for you to do your shopping.

   45 min

3. We will tour our public park, Taino Beach where you can try our specialty dish, Conch Salad. You can video him taking the conch out of the shell and making the conch salad right there in front of you. After that we continue on to tour Smith's Point, Home of the Wed. night Fish Fry, Sanctuary Bay, where the dolphins call home and last but not least Millionaire's Row, the Beverly Hills of Grand Bahama. This exclusive street has lavish elegant homes where our affluent residents call home and they have come from all over the world. Please be sure to bring your cameras to capture the sights and points of interest on your private curated daytrip with me. Please be sure to communicate with me if you have any special interests and would like to include those in your daytrip itinerary. "No Crowds, No Buses, No Time Schedule but Yours!"

   40 min

4. This is a 40 acre botanical garden filled with local trees, flowers, and a variety of birds. There is a chapel, a labyrinth and six small specialty shops selling local arts and crafts . Their restaurant, The Garden Cafe overlooks the pond and the waterfalls. This is an optional stop on our way to the East End and the Lucayan National Park. This walk takes about 30-45 mins and admission is not included.

   45 min

5. Lucayan National Park has the most magnificent beach, Gold Rock Beach which stretches for miles and miles with crystal clear turquoise waters and powder white sand. We have our Bahamian picnic lunch on the beach which consists of home made bread rolls, cold cuts - ham, turkey breast, salami and two types of sliced cheddar- yellow and white, lettuce, tomato, mayo and mustard. I bake a treat for dessert and the icing on the cake is my very own Bahama Mamas made with gold & coconut rums and local fresh fruit juices. You will have enough time to enjoy the beach either swimming, sunbathing or strolling and colleting shells. After beach time, we will then tour the two caves, Ben's Cave and Burial Mound , on the other side of the street. We will need at least 30 - 45mins. to walk the two caves. After touring the caves and time permitting we will then continue further east to visit the settlement of High Rock before returning to your ship. Total tour time is at least two hours.

   2 hAdmission included

6. After touring the Lucayan National Park and time permitting we will then continue further east along the coastline to High Rock, a local beach side settlement. There you can visit the Lighthouse Chapel and the Famous Bishop's Bar and Restaurant. You can meet Mr. Bishop himself who is quite a local character with lots of stories about the island. This tour and stop will take at least 45mins so we will need to make sure we do have time to fit this stop in before returning to the ship. I do my best to fit in as many stops as I can on your private curated daytrip with me. If you have any special interests then please communicate with me prior to your arrival so I can try to fit in your requests if any. Please call me anytime on #1(242)7276506 what's app to discuss details. "No Crowds, No Buses, No Time Schedule but Yours!" Let me Show you My Island home of Grand Bahama!!!

   45 min

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

Reviews

Ratings come from 32 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.

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• 5Excellent Tour of Grand Bahama’s East Side with Hida

  The East End Tour with Hida was fantastic. Hida stopped many times, from Freeport to the East End, to show/explain various sites. The terrain changes as you drive further east. You do see the effect the natural disasters have had on pockets of wooded area. The stop at the pristine beach for a swim in the Atlantic was so refreshing. 👍👍 If you are looking for a coastal tour of Grand Bahama, I recommend Hida’s East Side Tour! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

  robertlB4351NCSeptember 2026via Tripadvisor

• 3ok

  it was ok. thougth it could be better, but went to see a few different places that i liked.

  Cruiser65638481601June 2026via Tripadvisor

• 1Hard pass, don’t get stuck with this person.

  We booked this experience expecting to spend time a good amount at the caves and beach but in actuality we spent 10 mins at the caves and less than 10 at the beach. Viator emailed me before the tour and I responded saying we were not too interested in shopping. First stop beer store, we didn’t get out. Second stop rum distillery which was cool. Third stop straw market where we felt strong armed into buying crap and food, we had just eaten before we got off the boat. Fourth stop another market full of the same crap. We did go in and see an art gallery that was good. The entire time the guide is saying how the island never recovered from hurricane Dorian, it felt like she was doing what she could to get us to spend more and more money at her friends or acquaintances vendor stalls. We spend over $800 for the tour and another $450 on junk. It was definitely high pressure sales stuff that you either have to be a complete jerk and ignore everybody or buy something small from everyone. We finally told the lady we were done shopping and wanted to see the caves and beach, this obviously made her upset because she started driving pretty erratic. It was drizzling off and on all day but nothing that should have dampened our experience. We finally got to the caves and beaches at 2:15pm, 35 minutes away from the ships harbor and all aboard time was 3pm. I told her I don’t think we have time she kept insisting we did. After walking really slowly to the caves and then speed walking to the beach we rushed back to the car to speed away. This is 3:10 when we leave the caves/beach, only then did she realize she messed up and needed to hurry. Her driving got even more crazy speeding past people she even once passed somebody on the left in someone’s front yard. I phoned a buddy on the cruise ship to let them know we were late by quite a bit, luckily he was able to talk to guest relations and phoned down to the gangway to hold it for us. Just for an idea how fast she was going, we left at 3:10pm, we were 35 minutes away from the ships harbor according to my gps and we pulled in at 3:35pm. If you want to go on a tour where you don’t get to do what you want this is the one for you. Oh and she was 10 mins late for the pickup at the beginning. Just an overall mess of a tour.

  Mark_KMarch 2026via Viator

• 5Beautiful Beaches & City

  What a Great tour guide! The water was beautiful, and the guide was so gracious in answering all our questions. There was even stops for photos and to enjoy the water.

  ChristyNevillsJanuary 2026via Tripadvisor

• 5Wonderful day!

  My family had a wonderful New Year's Day on the Island with Hida. We toured the East End with her. She told us a lot about the history, culture and the great places to visit. At our last stop, Gold Rock Beach (which is so stunning), we had a delightful picnic lunch that Hida brought for us. She self baked the Bahamian bread that we made sandwiches with. She also surprised my oldest son with a birthday cake so that we could sing HBD to him. Hida added these thoughtful touches which made it extra special for us. My son had a lovely birthday! Hida, thank you so much for making our day so special and memorable!

  467abelzJanuary 2026via Tripadvisor

• 5Hida was very informative...

  Hida was very informative about the islands, took great pride in every effort to ensure her guests had a wonderful time/tour.

  RacheleE_GApril 2025via Viator

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How it compares in Freeport

• Its from-price is 101% above the median of the 28 experiences we list in Freeport.
• It is longer than most of them.
• By number of reviews it ranks 8 of 28.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Freeport

Freeport is the largest town on Grand Bahama, a flat island of long beaches, mangrove creeks and limestone caves with pine woods inland.

Freeport, on the south side of Grand Bahama, was laid out from the 1950s as a planned port and resort town, which is why its roads are wide and its buildings low. Together with Lucaya, its seaside neighbour, it forms the second-largest urban area in the Bahamas. Port Lucaya, built around a marina, has a market square, restaurants and bars, and wide sandy beaches such as Taino and Xanadu lie close by.

Top-ranked sights in Freeport: Deadman's Reef (Paradise Cove), Lucayan National Park, Port Lucaya Marketplace.

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