Planning a Trip to Cayman Islands

Best things to do go to Stingray City and take the time to sit on Seven Mile Beach we Rented a Seadoo and had a blast

We stay at Cobalt Coast Resort for the diving. The resort is BEAUTIFUL and you will find no better host than owner Ari. We've stayed at CCR for at least three visits and on these visits, Ari has taken us to the medical clinic when our son Ben got an ear infection, driven us past Hell, bought pool toys for our son, bought a kite for our son, and taken our extended family into town to visit the turtle farm. Rooms have AC and TV (important when traveling with the youngsters!). Good reliable internet connection. Resort has a pool, iron-shore (dead coral) beach, long pier, small sandy area for sun-bathing. Summer has a great introduce-kids-to-water program. Resort also has a dog (Mojo) and cat (Ginger) and a bazillion hermit crabs to pick up and chase. Easy resort to get to (hop from Houston is about 2 hours). Plenty of diving: 2 boat dives each morning to beautiful finger reefs. Shore diving available but there is a long swim out to get past the iron shore. Resort is a little out of the way, but about a 7 to 10 minute drive away from 7-mile beach so rent a car if you want to do more than dive. Menu is limited: it has seven items on it but that's it. It doesn't rotate. Chef is willing to customize (we were able to easily get food Ben would eat). US dollar is accepted tho exchange rate is set so that the Cayman dollar is worth a quarter more than a US dollar so it's expensive. Everyone speaks English.

A small town in Cayman Island with lava formations probably contributing to its name. I tried to get the local post office to stamp my passport, but they wouldn't. It would have been nice to prove that I'd been to hell and back...

Take plenty of postcards to the post office and don't miss the strange landscape from which the city derived its name.

On the northwest part of the island, you will find a very small town called Hell. It is a great tourist trap with great little souveniers. The limestone formations in the area have left a craggy, gnarled landscape of rock which the locals call Hell. The Devil's Hideout is run by a very funny older gentleman who dresses like the Devil. You will have many picture opportunites here. They have a post office, a few shops, and a bar. Don't forget to send postcards to everyone you know from Hell!

Definitely a beautiful location in the Caribbean! Georgetown is full of shops and restaurants, you can snorkel or swim with stingrays, and even visit a turtle farm. The best place to go is Hell. Although it's very small and very busy, you can stop by the Post Office and send everyone something from Hell.

We stay at Cobalt Coast Resort for the diving. The resort is BEAUTIFUL and you will find no better host than owner Ari. We've stayed at CCR for at least three visits and on these visits, Ari has taken us to the medical clinic when our son Ben got an ear infection, driven us past Hell, bought pool toys for our son, bought a kite for our son, and taken our extended family into town to visit the turtle farm. Rooms have AC and TV (important when traveling with the youngsters!). Good reliable internet connection. Resort has a pool, iron-shore (dead coral) beach, long pier, small sandy area for sun-bathing. Summer has a great introduce-kids-to-water program. Resort also has a dog (Mojo) and cat (Ginger) and a bazillion hermit crabs to pick up and chase. Easy resort to get to (hop from Houston is about 2 hours). Plenty of diving: 2 boat dives each morning to beautiful finger reefs. Shore diving available but there is a long swim out to get past the iron shore. Resort is a little out of the way, but about a 7 to 10 minute drive away from 7-mile beach so rent a car if you want to do more than dive. Menu is limited: it has seven items on it but that's it. It doesn't rotate. Chef is willing to customize (we were able to easily get food Ben would eat). US dollar is accepted tho exchange rate is set so that the Cayman dollar is worth a quarter more than a US dollar so it's expensive. Everyone speaks English.

go to stingray city. by far the best snorkeling! the stingrays are in the wild, and there's toms of them! the experience is way better than swimming with them in an aquarium.

seven mile beach is nice. at one end of it theres a shipwreck sticking out of the water close to shore.

Off the ship, you could take a cab to the nearest beach. It's worth to go to the beach. The sand is very whaite and water is not that salty.

Rum cake fills the streets, Caribbean rythmes fill the air, and offshore is one of the many "stingray cities" where rays fill the water, and you can pet them freely, so long as you're not Steve Irwin.

Definately take a boat out to Stingray City; you'll get to swim with THOUSANDS of stingray in 3ft water about 2 miles off the coast. Truly Fascinating. 7 Mile Beach is the "nice beach" but also by far the most expensive to stay at. If you can afford it, the Hyatt Regency and Ritz Carlton are two great places to stay. If your on a budget, thats fine too, but you won't be right on the beach.