Grand Bahama offers other ecoadventures like kayaking, hiking through remote mangroves to view birds and marine life, reef and cave diving, parasailing and horseback riding on the beaches, among many others. To travel around the world in minutes, see Freeport's International Bazaar. This collection of 80 shops and restaurants features virtual-reality settings in Paris, Spain, the Greek islands, Denmark, Hong Kong and about 10 other exotic locales. Nearby Lucaya boasts Port Lucaya Marketplace, a waterfront six-acre shopping, dining and entertainment complex with island motif and a bandstand at Count Basie Square. The legendary .
Entertainment includes jazz, rythym and blues, limbo, raggae, fire dancers and more.
The Freeport area has been chosen as the site for the first Footprints resort, a new concept in resort destinations that combines upscale, secluded, romantic vacations with educational and adventurous, environmentally sensitive activities. The resort will consist of about 135 individual cabins nestled at the edge of the Lucayan National Park at Gold Rock Creek. Renovation and innovation at the harbour, airport and hotels indicate serious tourism development. The harbour can now handle the world's largest cruise liners and container ships. It will handle the largest container ships afloat.