Ten minutes from the airport
Cable Beach
The resort strip on the north shore, anchored by Baha Mar and its casino, golf course and restaurant row. The closest good beach to the airport.
Destinations
The Bahamas
Private Jet Charter to Nassau
Fifty miles of water and you are in another country. Private flights to Nassau run forty minutes from Miami — the resorts, the marinas and the old colonial town all within twenty minutes of each other, and the pink sand of Harbour Island and the Exuma sandbars a short leg beyond.
The destination
Private jet charter to Nassau, and what the island is actually like.
Nassau sits on New Providence, the centre of Bahamian life — the government, the banks, the resorts and the deep-water port all within twenty minutes of each other, on an island barely twenty miles long. It is the most developed address in the chain and, for a first trip, the most forgiving: everything runs, everything is close, and everything is reachable the afternoon you arrive.
What people underestimate is how quickly you can leave it. Rose Island is twenty minutes by boat. Harbour Island and its pink sand are a short leg north. The Exuma sandbars — the water everyone has seen photographs of — are thirty-five minutes in the air. Nassau works as the whole trip, or as the door to the rest of the country.
This page is the destination brief for anyone chartering a private jet to Nassau: where to stay, what the island is genuinely good at, the best time of year to come, and what arriving privately changes. Every trip is quoted as a whole trip, not by the seat.
Where to stay
Where to stay in Nassau, and the islands worth the extra leg.
Six addresses, and they are not interchangeable. Times are from Lynden Pindling International by car, or by air where noted.
On the island
What Nassau is good at: water, boats, golf and the table.
On the island
Golf
The Ocean Club course on Paradise Island and Royal Blue at Baha Mar are both championship layouts within twenty-five minutes of the airport. Albany, on the southwest coast, is private.
When to come
The best time to fly private to Nassau.
Nassau sits at the top of the tropics: warm all year, and genuinely dry from December through April — upper seventies, low humidity, and the light everybody photographs. That is also when the whole eastern seaboard wants to be here, so rooms and aircraft go early.
May and June are the value window — the water is at its warmest, the crowds have thinned, and both hotels and aircraft are easy. July through October is storm season: systems are tracked days out and trips get moved rather than gambled on, and day to day the real issue is an afternoon thunderstorm, not a hurricane.
November is the island’s secret — warm, settled, past the storm peak and before the holiday rush.
26 December & 1 January
Junkanoo
Costume, brass and drum through Bay Street before dawn. The best reason to be in Nassau in winter, and the hardest week of the year to book.
March & April
Regatta season
Bahamian sloop racing moves around the islands through the spring. Family Island Regatta at George Town is the one worth flying to.
October
Wine & food
Nassau Paradise Island’s food weekend fills the good rooms on an otherwise quiet shoulder month.
Arriving privately
Flying private into Nassau: what actually changes.
The airport
Private jet charter flights to Nassau use Lynden Pindling International (MYNN · NAS), ten minutes west of Cable Beach and twenty-five from Paradise Island. Private arrivals use the terminals on the west side of the field, away from the airline concourses.
Customs
Immigration and customs meet the aircraft rather than a hall. In the ordinary case you are in a car within ten minutes of the door opening — the single biggest practical difference from flying commercially.
Getting in
A private jet from Miami or Fort Lauderdale to Nassau is under an hour; from New York, Boston or Toronto it is under four, and a single leg from most of the eastern half of the country. Onward charter flights to Harbour Island, Exuma and the other Out Islands run twenty to thirty-five minutes.
What you need
A valid passport for every passenger, infants included. The operator files the manifests and declarations in advance; nothing is handled at a counter.
We charter into the whole chain, not just Nassau — Harbour Island, the Exumas, Abaco, Bimini and the strips that need a turboprop and a crew who has been in before. Tell us the island and the party and we will come back with named aircraft, the operator’s safety record, and a quote for the trip.
Questions
Flying private to the Bahamas.
Nassau or one of the Out Islands for a first trip? +
Nassau, almost always. Everything works, everything is close, and you can still spend a day on an empty sandbar and be back for dinner. Once you know which version of the Bahamas you actually want — the resort, the boat, or the quiet — the Out Islands make sense on the second trip.
Nassau or Harbour Island? +
They are opposites. Nassau is resorts, restaurants, marinas and golf, ten to twenty-five minutes from the airport. Harbour Island is pink sand, golf carts and about eight good restaurants, reached by a short flight north plus a taxi and a ferry. Families and first-timers tend to prefer Nassau; couples and repeat visitors tend to prefer Harbour Island.
How long should we stay? +
Four nights is the natural length for Nassau — two on the island, one on the water, one loose. A week is right if you are adding Harbour Island or the Exumas, since the second island deserves three nights of its own rather than a day trip.
Do we all need passports? +
Yes — every passenger, including infants, needs a valid passport. The Bahamas also expects evidence of onward or return travel, which your itinerary covers. We check the document list against your passenger manifest before the day, because a missing passport is the single most common reason a Bahamas trip does not leave.
Can we fly straight to Harbour Island or Staniel Cay? +
You fly to the strip that serves it — North Eleuthera for Harbour Island, Staniel Cay for the central Exumas — and finish by boat or cart, usually in ten or fifteen minutes. Those strips have no customs, so the first landing in the country has to be at an airport of entry. We build that stop into the routing rather than leaving you to discover it.
How early do we need to be at the airport? +
Fifteen to twenty minutes before departure is normal on the Florida side — you park, you walk to the aircraft, there is no security line. Coming home takes longer, because you clear US customs on arrival and that is on their clock, not ours.
Can the dog come? +
Usually yes, and it needs planning. The Bahamas requires an import permit from the Ministry of Agriculture, applied for in advance, along with a recent veterinary health certificate. Tell us early and we handle the paperwork alongside the flight.
What happens if a storm is forecast? +
We watch the systems from the moment they form and talk to you before you have to ask. Trips get moved forward, pushed back, or rerouted — and no operator we work with will fly you into weather to save an itinerary. Hurricane season does not close the Bahamas; it just means the plan needs a second version.
