This is weird. The Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board will issue rebates for the cost of new US Passports for your entire family (4 per room), providing you stay for 2 days at one of 19 participating hotels. The deal comes as new regulations are requiring US travelers to show a US passport to travel to and from the Bahamas.

They also have a website set up providing helpful tips on applying for your passport. We suppose if you’re going there anyway, you might as well get a free passport. That sounds so strange, doesn’t it? Free passports, get your free passports.—MEGHANN MARCO

Free Passports [Nassau Paradise Island]

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