We stayed here for 6 nights and place is very decent for the price. This is not the place where you expect full flash service. But for the price you cannot beat it. Beautiful beach across the street. Great place to snorkel also ( we saw sting ray and many other fishes and got good shells also). Only negative about this beach is BROKEN BEER bottles all over the beach, so please have your beach shoe. Orange Hill is good place for adults or older (teenage) kids. Not much for younger kids to do beside beach. I should have taken portable dvd player to keep my kids occupied late evenings. I would give staff all the credits for great service. If you need few things from the grocery store they would pick that up for you. Wow!

Orange Hill is a great place to stay if you are on a budget and looking for a quiet, relaxing, off the beaten path hotel that is away from all the tourist traps of Nassau. If you are expecting 4 or 5 star, ritzy accommodations, this is not the place for you. But if you are willing to overlook small imperfections by embracing them as part of the 'down-home' experience, then Orange Hill will suit you perfectly.

Our room had a fantastic view of the ocean. It was so peaceful and relaxing. The beach is right in front of the hotel and is mostly secluded and is a good place to swim and snorkel. The location is excellent - close to the airport and all amenities (restaurants, groceries etc.) The self serve bar is great! There is a coffee/tea station that is open all day / evening. The pool was excellent. Staff are friendly.

Tips and imperfections:
Rooms do not have remotes for the tv, or irons/ironing boards. You have to request these at front desk and they are usually quick to honour your request.

The rooms are definitely not spotless when it comes to cleaning, however, they were adequate. Sheets were clean, fresh towels every day etc.

All in all, Orange Hill was our home for 10 days and the pros definitely outweighed the cons for this hotel.

I booked online and was apprehensive at first. Reading the reviews helped alot.
It was as I read from reviews and we enjoyed our visit although it was short.
Taxi rides to and from are quite expensive, around 25$ but if you are not planning on touring, it was ok.
The local "bus" was $1 per person and make excellent transportation. I felt much safer as the local taxi drivers are mostly in it for a buck and some (not all) drive like maniacs.
Car rental is interesting due to left of the road driving. Everyone beeps for any reason, beep beep, I'm changing lanes, beep, beep, I'm cutting in infront of you, etc.
Back to the hotel, we only spent 2 nights but would have been good for maybe a week. The grounds were great, we too had a chance to get a coconut, honor bar fabulous. Service excellent.
Floors dirty, had to leave our shoes on, but otherwise our room was terrific. Everything worked and beds were clean. Had one meal in their little restaurant, found the food native to Bahamas, "homecooked" but nice. Prices for drinks and food were too high to consider them every day, but not out of line with other places on the island, just more options for cheaper places when you tour around. I'd definitely go back and recommend it as a great place to try, if only for a week. The beach across the street was great too, mostly deserted as it is out of the busy areas of Nassau.
Also, a big thanks to the staff and management there, keep up the good work, people will return if they have a nice experience and we did.

Just came back from a week at Orange Hill, and stayed in a Poolside room. My experience was different from the majority of people on here, but I'm guessing that's because they stayed in the cottages, and not in the main rooms.

There is virtually 0 insulation between rooms. You can hear EVERYTHING. Normal talking, TVs, sex was the big one. We didn't have 1 quiet night at this place, and neither did anybody else in our party. The honor bar is nice, however I did miss having a bartender who could make that special drink (the rum punch was great, when the guy who could make them was there). Food was decent, however the restaurant hours, especially lunch, didn't bode well for divers, so most of the time we had to eat where we dove. Menu changes for dinner everyday which was nice since there's only a few things on it.

I would never stay here again due to the noise problems - in all the hotels I've ever stayed at for diving, this one was the worst for that.