Expect to share your experience with other tourists – most days, several boats stop at Pig Beach at the same time. If you want the pigs all to yourself, you'll have to pay for a private tour. Expect to be in or on the water pretty much all day.
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You have different options to visit Pig Beach in the Bahamas, but unless you travel in your own boat, they are all part of a guided tour: What is this? All options are usually full-day trips that include other stops in addition to the swimming pigs.
The Staniel Cay Adventures offers the swimming with the pigs excursion from Nassau for $510.00. It includes a quick flight. Like other tours, the tour includes swimming with the pigs, swimming with the sharks, visiting the iguanas, snorkeling, and more.
It's a Unique ExperienceIf you're traveling to Rose Island or don't live far off, you should really make the trip to go see its pigs. The swimming pigs at Rose Island are nice, fun, and will offer you a unique experience. It's rare that people get to go swimming with pigs.
The cheapest way to go swimming with pigs is to visit Rose Island which has swimming pigs and it is just a short 25 minute boat ride away from downtown Nassau.
A note about the speed boat tours: The cheapest way to visit Pig Beach from Nassau is by speedboat. However, this is also the most uncomfortable way to visit the piggies, since the ride is quite bumpy, and you're spending hours on the boat.
Where are the swimming pigs? The Bahamas' beach pigs live on Big Major Cay, one of the over 365 islands in Exuma, a district of the Bahamas. Also known as Pig Beach (for obvious reasons), the island is about 82 miles southeast of Nassau, and about 50 miles northwest of George Town.
The boat ride will take approximately 5-10 minutes before finally reaching the island with pigs. However, we strongly encourage you to linger just a bit longer to see what the small island of Staniel Cay has to offer.
BUT the price is about 400$ and there is a cheaper way from Nassau to get there: Take a plane! The Airport of Exuma is literally next to the port (5min walking distance!) and the price per person is about 150-200$ (there and back - leave in the morning and come back at night).
The island takes its unofficial name from the fact that it is populated by a colony of feral pigs which live on the island. It has become a tourist attraction in modern times. The pigs are known in popular culture as the swimming pigs although other islands with swimming pigs exist in the Bahamas.
Only 25 minutes from Nassau/Paradise IslandMeet Babe, Wilbur, Pumba, Larry, Curly, Mo, Ginger, Pepper, and Spice, just some of our awesome Rose Island piggies!