Blogs from Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, Central America Caribbean - page 9

Visited December 7th, 2010 by Carnival Valor. The waters were a little rough so we ended up coming in at Spot Bay rather than the usual cruise port. Guess we're not shopping here. We were still picked up by a guide that was previously booked. Note to everyone, book your excursions before leaving home for half the price. Our excursion brought us to Stingray city with Soto's Tours. Both young guides were wonderful. The owner was not so polite or perhaps just sick of doing tours. They say if you kiss a stingray, you have seven years good luck, I figure if you kiss it on your birthday, you must be good for life. Off to the snorkeling, first time for my daughters and husband, someone had to stay in the boat and videotape, guess who? ... read more

Pics i couldn't publish due to slow internet. This was the bestest day EVER!!! ... read more

We had an excursion to Sting Ray City planned for today, at 8:30am. The tour operator called and said that he'd rather put us on the 11:30am because it would be less crowded and so we were fine with that. We just went down and ate some breakfast and lounged around the hotel until then. At about 10:50am, we were picked up by the company's bus and taken over to the yacht club for the boat ride. I booked the excursion with Moby Dick Tours because it seemed to have the best reviews. It was about a 20 minute boat ride out there, in which we stopped at a reef first for 30 minutes of snorkeling. They provided all the equipment, beverages, sunscreen, and a fresh water shower aboard the boat. It was a smooth and ... read more

Our trip to the Cayman Islands has come upon us and the first day was an adventure just to get there. The flight loads for nonrev travel had looked good for weeks and even with less than 24 hours to go, the plane had nearly 30 open seats. Well.........I checked again on Saturday afternoon and what is this? The flight from Indianapolis to Atlanta is now severely overbooked? After some research, I found out that they cancelled an Indianapolis to Atlanta flight on Saturday afternoon and it rolled everyone back, back, back! I was thinking we would lose a day in paradise but I am really good at finding alternate routes. So.........we drove two hours west to Bloomington, Illinois and caught a nonstop to Atlanta. The Bloomington airport has free parking too so that was a ... read more

Laid back and Leisurely My husband has been telling me for nearly nine years that Grand Cayman Island is the most beautiful place on earth. For his 40th birthday I was going to rent out a go-cart track for him and all of his buddies and found out it was going to cost about $3000. I had been saving for a while so it wasn't really the money that I was worried about, but I just kept asking myself, "What am I going to get out of this?" Just kidding, but it didn't take too long before I convinced myself that "Hey, we never went on a honeymoon. Heck, we've never gone anywhere alone with each other." Could we actually make it a whole vacation with just the two of us? The answer after returning from ... read more