Christmas vacation for my family aged 38-94. Very spacious and well equipped. 3 beds, 4 bathrooms. 3rd floor bed needs a little sprucing up. Clean pool, ocean steps away. Small bar/dining by pool and good restaurants and grocery nearby. Jitney to downtown and airport out front. Very nice and helpful staff and security. We would return here without a thought.

This resort is in a great location with a lot of the apartments set away from what is a main road. There are supermarkets, a few restaurants and small clothes shops and a Starbucks within 10 - 15 minutes walk, and of course the big hotels like Sandals and Sheraton nearby for other dining options. Downtown Nassau is only 10 minutes away by Jitney - the small coaches that run up and down the road outside and have set fare of $1.25 to anywhere - which also means that you don't need a car a lot of the time as they also run past the supermarkets and out to further points.
The beach is small and clean and the sea is protected by a reef further out, shallow and calm for easy swimming. Various fried foods and burgers are available at pretty dining shack and there is a tennis court with coach available and a heated outdoor pool. The staff are friendly and helpful.
What really lets what would otherwise be a great little place right down is the very intrusive noise from large air conditioners out-side each apartment that run loudly 24/7 and even though you are by the sea and on the beach the sound is a constant loud drone and makes sleeping well impossible - and apart from everything else is environmentally unfriendly and also very intrusive upon the neighboring apartments. I spoke to one couple who were staying next door at the 'Carefree Apartments' who said that although they had rented a condo for 2 weeks they were moving out that day, only their 3rd, because the noise coming from Blue Water was too intrusive and that they had to turn their TV up to hear it properly in the evenings.

Recently sold and the remodeling and upgrades are just barely getting started. You will have to buy a 5 gallon jug of water (9.50) as the faucet water is smelly and NOT very potable. This is/was an RCI silver crown resort and I traded Pueblo Bonito Emerald Bay in Mazatlan for time here and this place is a definite 2 Stars below PBEB. It is on W. Bay St. about 2 miles West of Sheraton and Wyndham Resorts. The only dining is a tiny bar on the beach by the pool. The office/lobby at check-in is tiny and cramped while you wait for check-in at 4:00 pm. The staff was friendly and helpful and they did NOT have a bunch of extra charges like some places. The pictures look better that it actually is.

We are not high maintenance travelers -- personally, I prefer to be out exploring rather than sitting in my hotel room. I just need somewhere clean to lay my head. So with that said, Cable Beach Resort didn't meet even my fairly lax expectations.

Pros:
- Lots of space -- LOTS of space, great for a family or big group.
- Ok location, if you have a car rented. Close to grocery, a few restaurants, Cable Beach.
- Decent price, although I booked through a package and feel I paid too much for what we got.

Cons:
- Not clean. We both got bitten up every night in bed -- by what, I don't know, but it's been three days and I am still scratching. :( There were ants everywhere in the kitchen and bathroom the day we checked in. Also, a huge hairball behind the bed. Among other things.
- This hotel does NOT have a beach. The waves crash way too close to the sea wall to sit on the beach. Maybe it did before Sandy?
- You'll rarely get Wifi in your room.
- Like a lot of New Providence, the place as a whole is pretty run down. The kitchen had some nice features, but most of the furniture needed replacing.

Other thoughts:
- I've stayed in resorts and this is not it. This is a condo rental. Don't expect maid or room service. There isn't any. I'm fine with that, but I think the name of the place is misleading.
- Would benefit from a LOT of landscaping. Gravel entryway into the apartment has no curb appeal.
- The staff was not especially friendly. The gate guys were sweet, but the front desk folks were perfunctory at best.

Definitely wouldn't stay again.