Grand Bahama Island Casino Freeport

Grand Bahama Island Casino is the main casino of Freeport on Grand Bahama Island, the Bahamas second largest island and closest to Florida, with slot machines, gaming tables with blackjack, roulette and baccarat. It operates under the Bahamas Gaming Board license. Freeport is the Bahamas second city with 80,000 inhabitants, founded in 1955 as a free trade and commercial zone by financier Wallace Groves, being the most ambitious private-concession economic development experiment in the 20th century Caribbean. Grand Bahama is just 100 kilometers from the Florida east coast, being the closest island to the North American continent in the entire Bahamas archipelago.

Grand Bahama and Freeport: the closest island to Florida in the Atlantic

Grand Bahama was severely affected by Hurricane Dorian in 2019, one of the most intense and destructive in Atlantic history with sustained winds of 295 km/h, causing an estimated USD 3.4 billion in damages on the island and leaving Freeport without electricity and drinking water for weeks. Grand Bahama recovery has been slow but steady, with sun and beach tourism as the main reconstruction engine. The island has in Lucaya, the coastal neighborhood of Freeport, the largest hotel and entertainment hub on Grand Bahama, with all-inclusive hotels, the Porto Lucaya Marketplace and Taino and Gold Rock beaches as its main attractions. The Bahamas has in the historic Nassau Grand Prix of Formula 1, the first American GP held outside the US in 1953, one of its most recognized historical sporting milestones.

The casino of the closest island to Florida in the Bahamas archipelago

Grand Bahama Island Casino is the gaming reference of Freeport, the Bahamas second city on the closest island to Florida, 100km from the US east coast. It operates under Bahamas Gaming Board license, minimum age 18.