Getting To The Abacos Travel Tips, Charter and Scheduled Airlines, Ferries, Airports, Packing Tips, Luggage Limits and All That. June 1, 2008: TO ALL HOLDERS OF ISLAND EXPRESS AIRLINES TICKETS: Due to factors and influences beyond Island Express' control, the airline will no longer be providing air transport between its Fort Lauderdale base and the Abacos. According to an airline spokesperson... Island Express, a Fort Lauderdale-based air carrier has made arrangements for the accommodation of all passengers holding reservations for travel to and from Fort Lauderdale to Marsh Harbour or Treasure Cay, Bahamas. Passengers should not make other arrangements as their Island Express tickets will be honored for travel throughout 2008. Passengers holding tickets who have not already done so, should contact Island Express at (954) 359-0380 or islandexpressair@yahoo.com to confirm their flight and flight times. Island Express tickets are nonrefundable and all reservations will be honored by Vintage Props Jets or other airlines, on the same dates and approximate times as originally booked on Island Express with no adverse impact on any connecting flights. Vintage is a scheduled air carrier based in Melbourne, also serving Fort Lauderdale, the Bahamas and other destinations around the state of Florida.. Travel Tips, TSA restrictions and PASSPORT Information (including a printable application). For new Passport regulations and NEW digital Passport application forms, For a time-tested, printable packing checklist (PDF), please to review TSA's / Department of Homeland Security's revised airport screening and luggage restriction tips (10-4-06). for TSA's general (and still applicable) list of previously prohibited carry-on items, and Click for a PDF of tips to ease the hassel of airport security screenings. The Abacos - just 60-70 minutes by air from South Florida! To find out EXACTLY how close The Abaco islands are to YOUR home, Traveling to The Abacos contradicts the old axiom about having to work hard to get what you want... since flying to the Abacos is a simple, short, non-stop (in most cases) flight from South Florida. As a matter of fact, The Abacos are a lot closer to the U.S. than just about all the better known Caribbean and Pacific Ocean island destinations. The Abacos are approximately 50 miles closer to South Florida than Key West, and actually closer to Los Angeles than Hawaii (but not by very much)! Starting your vacation at your destination is a lot more fun than spending the better part of a day getting where you're going and another day going home!. Several airlines serve both Abacos airports two port-of-entry, international airports. [Treasure Cay (pix below) and Marsh Harbour] are approximately 70 minutes by air from any one of South Florida's three international airports [West Palm Beach, Ft. Lauderdale and Miami International]. Various inter-island ferries connect the mainland (Great Abaco and its two airports) to the off-lying cays. A number of. FAA certified scheduled carriers currently provide service to both Abacos airports out of South Florida's 3 primary airports, and convenient connecting flights to The Abacos out of Orlando and Tampa-St. Pete are also available. Additionally, several reputable and reliable provide service to The Abacos from South Florida.. Please CLICK on the LEFT map for a detailed INTERACTIVE MAP of The Abacos CLICK on the RIGHT map for more information on which one of The Abacos' airports serves the Cay or Settlement destination of your choice. In Marsh Harbour, Batelco now allows you to rent a cell phone for a $500 deposit, $95 of which is non-refundable and the charge for calling the States of.99 for the 1st minute and.80 thereafter, plus a.20 airtime charge per minute.

(Go-Abacos' visitors have some VERY nice things to say about our site --- to read a few comments). || Sponsors listed by. || Sponsors located in the. GREEN TURTLE - TREASURE CAY AREA. MARSH HARBOUR - CHEROKEE SOUND - ELBOW CAY - GUANA CAY AREA. THE ABACOS' MAJOR MEDIA. NEWS - ENTERTAINMENT - LIFESTYLE - CRUISING || GO-ABACOS'. SPONSOR AND QUALITY ASSURANCE POLICY. Updated 30 January 2007. Please try to patronize our sponsors. Go-Abacos is not funded by commissions on its sponsors' sales or major commercial, tourism or government interests and could not exist without our sponsors' unselfish cooperation, personal encouragement and financial support. Additionally, our sponsor policy as pertains to participation in Go-Abacos is based more on the quality of a sponsor's offerings, than on a sponsor's ability to pay a nominal sponsorship fee. provides frequent daily flights to Treasure Cay and Marsh Harbour. Our current Green Turtle and Treasure Cay area sponsors include: Island Road Runner Cart Rentals. Green Turtle golf cart rentals - the Big Wheel carts! The Bahama Beach Club. (Treasure Cay) - Beachfront rentals and vacation home sales. Lincoln Linc Jones' Adventure Trips. snorkel, dive, fish, beach parties - (Green Turtle). (on Green Turtle's Black Sound). Bay Street Cart Rentals. Sea Side Golf Cart Rentals. (in Green Turtle's settlement of New Plymouth). Golden Reef Apartments. (a fine gift, resortware and souvenier shop in Green Turtle's settlement of New Plymouth). South Beach Apartments. (on the beach in New Plymouth - MOST ECONOMICAL of all Go-Abaco rentals). (in Green Turtle's Green Turtle Estates area). (in Green Turtle Green Turtle Estates area). Russell's Apartments Boat Rentals. (on Green Turtle's Black Sound - HAM Radio operator). (one of Green Turtle's most popular vacation rentals). The Green Turtle Club and Marina - an island-style resort hotel on Green Turtle Cay's White Sound. Treasure Cay Hotel, Resort and Marina. Green Turtle golf cart rentals - the PINK ones! Green Turtle boat rentals. Ronnie Sawyer's Bonefish Charters. Specializing in bonefishing for over 20 years - Ronnie is a proud member of George Poveromo's (Salt Water Sportsman and ESPN) A Team of fishing guides. Luxury Yacht Charters (serving all The Abacos out of their Marsh Harbour base). Bluff House Beach Resort and Marina. (Green Turtle's White Sound). Abaco Outboard Engines. Yamaha Dealer Network. Abaco Yacht Services. Ocean Blue Art Gallery. Restaurant Liquor-Beer-Wine Store (Green Turtle). Comprehensive Abaco sailing regattas information pages and race maps for BOTH annual Abaco regattas. (the Abacos' most reliable air transportation). Our current Marsh Harbour, Elbow Cay, Guana Cay sponsors include: Sea Star Car and Mini-Van Rentals. The Regattas of Abaco. (previously Abaco-Towns-By-The-Sea). luxury vacation homes with boat slips. Dolphin Beach Resort. Show Bow's Conch Stand. (Fresh conch salad - Marsh Harbour). Conch Inn Hotel and Marina. Abaco Beach Resort and Boat Harbour. (luxury yacht charters). Abaco Dive Adventures. Restaurant and Harbourside Bar - Marsh Harbour. (and the Abaco's Yamaha Dealer. Island Bar and Lookout. Island Bar and Grill. All Abaco media - including general news of the islands; entertainment news; cruising guides, charts and tips; and lifestyle features. To inform and entertain Go - Abacos' visitors, we are pleased to welcome the. The Abaconian - The Abacos' only hard news. now published twice a month. The Abaco islands' definitive lifestyle publication (published quarterly for almost 20 years). The Cruising Guide To The Abacos. The Abacos' definitive cruising and boating guide - if it has to do with getting anyplace by water, you'll find reliable information here (published annually). Without exception, our sponsors are well-established, respected businesses who have achieved their success and enviable reputations through hard work, impeccable service and by consistently providing Abacos Travelers with just a little bit more than they expect in terms of value, courtesy and the overall enjoyment of their Abaco vacation experience. If you would like to help sponsor Go - Abacos' site, please click the above To Sponsor button, or contact in Green Turtle Cay or. Bluewater Marketing Services, Inc. in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. We would be honored by your sponsorship inquiry.

Go - Abacos Is Created and Managed By Bluewater Marketing Services, Inc. A Professional Marketing Company. Bluewater's twenty-five year reputation for marketing excellence. Bluewater believes Go - Abacos is for Travelers. Why has Bluewater created Go-Abacos? What does Bluewater do? Bluewater provides cost-effective marketing services! Contact Bluewater directly. Bluewater has a twenty-five year reputation for successful regional, national and international marketing. Over the past 25 years, Bluewater or its principals have developed and implemented over $125 US million worth of local, regional, national and international marketing and advertising programs, and have helped create almost $3 US billion in gross revenues for our diverse roster of clients (comprehensive Bluewater Marketing Services, Inc. background and reference material is available upon request). Today, Bluewater Marketing Services is proud to serve as the primary author, designer, programmer and marketing resource for Go-Abacos.com, and to donate our photographic services, island photo archives images, and many 100's of Bluewater staff hours to the development of this unique local knowledge website. Additionally, Bluewater now serves as internet design and marketing agency for such well-known companies as Gulfstream-Continental Connection (Continental Airlines), Bahamas Travel Net, Florida Yacht Charters, K-Crypt Encryption Resources, ATC Services and many others. Bluewater's principals are long-term Abaco islands visitors, and are honored by the many friendships we have formed in these islands over the past 20 years. With the generous assistance of our many long-time friends and other personal associations in The Abacos, we expect to continue to add a significant amount of additional commercial as well as local knowledge content to Go - Abacos over the next months. Yet even with the projected growth of this site, we will continue to restrict Go - Abacos' commercial content to less than 20% of the total site. Bluewater believes Go - Abacos is for Travelers... NOT. In order to attract the type of informed traveler best suited for an Abaconian vacation adventure (see. 5 Reasons To Visit The Abacos. if you have any questions), Go - Abacos' mission is to showcase a significant amount of traveler-usable local knowledge INFORMATION on a relatively undiscovered group of idyllic islands, not to create The Abacos' largest computerized Yellow Pages of things to buy or rent! Why is Bluewater doing this? Bluewater Marketing Services believes in quality, controlled-growth for The Abacos. We believe the Abaco islands will experience significant controlled quality growth in high-end tourism over the next few years. We believe The Big Red Boat-Guanan Cay fiasco was one of the most ill-conceived Tourist promotions of the last decade, since we firmly believe The Abacos are absolutely NOT for tourists ( please click here for our definition of Tourist. ). We believe Go - Abacos can help generate increased numbers of the type(s) of traveler(s) who will truly enjoy an Abaconian vacation adventure, and will tell their friends of their discovery. For a better understanding of our tourism philosophy, please browse our. Finally, we believe if we can successfully create a comprehensive, objective, local knowledge information (not advertising) oriented internet site, and then market it properly to true Island Travelers, our sponsors will ultimately reap significant rewards in increased business. This will not happen overnight... but neither will our discounted, get-acquainted first year rates continue forever. At some point in the next 12-15 months, we expect to begin breaking even on Go - Abacos' cost vs. revenues. However, we can only expect to do this when we demonstrate that we're providing cost-effective marketing services to our valued sponsors... our Abaco clients. In other words, Go - Abacos and Bluewater Marketing are putting a significant number of real dollars where our mouths are. We honestly don't EXPECT our sponsors to take our word that Go - Abacos will create a greater amount of quality business for their businesses than any other Abacos-oriented website. We expect to prove it. Who is Bluewater? Bluewater Marketing Services is nationally recognized for significant accomplishments in the fields of advertising, strategic marketing, promotion, public relations and development of research-based communications programs. The senior Bluewater network personnel who create, supervise and implement our clients' marketing communications and marketing support programs are skilled in the creative development and execution of every element and detail of a corporate, business-to-business, tourism, retail or co-op marketing support program. What does Bluewater Do? Bluewater's resource network has provided effective, results-oriented and internationally recognized marketing communications programs to a wide range of companies for over 20 years, including such regional, national and international clients as Prudential (project basis), Radice, American Standard (regional), Travelpro Luggage, Dun Bradstreet Data, Merrill Lynch, Dole Foods, Disney (project basis) and Mobil Oil (project basis). 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Bluewater provides cost-effective, affordable marketing and communications services! From development of creative and message delivery strategies to production, design, creative, media and strategic research capabilities, we've successfully done (or directed) it all. Since Bluewater Marketing Services brings together a network of talented individuals and groups, under the umbrella of a virtual company, we offer competitive prices for everything we do - you'll only pay for what you need, not for rooms full of kids working an hour a day and spending the rest of the time playing computer video games. Where is Bluewater? Bluewater's principals have been located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida since 1969. Bluewater Marketing was formed in 1993 by Rick Graef (previously Senior VP-Marketing for a major company listed on the New York Stock Exchange) to provide a degree of marketing professionalism and expertise not otherwise available to local and regional clients. According to our clients, we have been quite successful in accomplishing our goals and corporate mission. Should you wish to contact us directly: Bluewater Marketing Services, Inc. 1574 NE 36 Street Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33334. 954-568-5214 954-564-4838 [FAX] sponsors@go-abacos.com

 Guest rooms have air conditioning
 Kitchen
 Private park, garden, courtyard
 Quiet surroundings
 Fridge
 Private/Ensuite bathroom
 Tea and coffee making facilities
 TV sets in rooms
 Patio, summer terrace