Grand Cayman Help?

I am looking for any kind of budget lodgings on Grand Cayman. I am
traveling by myself and room rates are exorbinat, anyone on Grand
Cayman have a spare room to rent? Are there guest houses? Any dive
clubs with empty spaces for Jan. 20-26? There must be a better way
than paying singles prices at a big hotel which are all over $100. If
anyone out there hase any sugestions they would be greatly apreciated,
thanks Tom.

"T" <tjackm7@> wrote in message
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> I am looking for any kind of budget lodgings on Grand Cayman. I am
> traveling by myself and room rates are exorbinat, anyone on Grand
> Cayman have a spare room to rent? Are there guest houses? Any dive
> clubs with empty spaces for Jan. 20-26? There must be a better way
> than paying singles prices at a big hotel which are all over $100. If
> anyone out there hase any sugestions they would be greatly apreciated,
> thanks Tom.

I like the all inclusive package at Sunset House, but don't recall how much
it was. It probably was not cheap. A friend stayed, and enjoyed a place
called The Magnificanet Dive Dump, or something similar. As I recall, it
was considerably cheaper than other options.

Lee

Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote:

> Tim wrote:
> >
> > My preference is to not have the new airport since it would bring visitor
> > pressures that would ruin LC. OK, I'm selfish, but I like LC as it is. Gees,
> > you can't even ride in open truck beds any longer or have an open beer in
> > plain sight at the airport any longer. Can you say, "pave paradise, put up a
> > parking lot"?
>
> Next thing you know, cruise pukes will be barfing on your boat.


There's another push underway to get cruise ships in to the Brac.

They think that they've learned their lesson last time (they reefed a
transfer boat & put ~40 German Tourists into the drink!) in that they're
planning on building a pier, but the location is over at Scott's
Development on the NW side, which means that it will be vulnerable to
winter NorWesters which happens to be peak winter season!

And it also doesn't help that the pier location is inside the existing
Marine Park - and there's already some reef damage. The advocate's
attitude is "we'll move the Marine Park". It doesn't seem to bother
them that this project is literally on top of the Kissammee wreck dive
site and reef complex...my guess is that they're probably thinking that
they can just simply raise and move a wreck that's been down to now
what's got to be close to 20 years.


-hh

Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote:

> H. Huntzinger wrote:
> >
> > And it also doesn't help that the pier location is inside the existing
> > Marine Park - and there's already some reef damage. The advocate's
> > attitude is "we'll move the Marine Park". It doesn't seem to bother
> > them that this project is literally on top of the Kissammee wreck dive
> > site and reef complex...
>
>
> Why would they care about a sunken wreck? The majority of their clients
> don't care about such things, why should they?

The majority of the existing industry is scuba-oriented tourism.
Granted, the Kissammee wreck has been overshadowed by the 356, but since
the Cayman Government did put together a scheme of making the Caymans
into a Caribbean "Shipwreck City" and this plan includes a fee (tax!) on
each dive on a wreck to pay for new ships to be sunk on Grand Cayman &
Little Cayman, you can be sure that the old Kissammee is on their
revenuer's list.


-hh

<sigh> -- Makes me hunger for a good old Chicago Ward election. It'd be a
cleaner fight.

Tim

<snip>
>
> Well, Melvin's getting screwed...the Twin Otter was just siezed as a
> $300K lien as part of the 2-year ongoing legal battle between Island Air
> and the government for landing fees.
>
> As a regular service provider, it looks like Island Air will have their
> business taken by the government-subsidized Cayman Airways, followed by
> a reduction in service. Maybe we'll boycot the Brac this year.
>
>
>
> -hh

> Well, Melvin's getting screwed...

Uhm, maybe you mean Mervyn?

"Indigo" <indigo-alien@rocketmail.com> wrote:

> > Well, Melvin's getting screwed...
>
> Uhm, maybe you mean Mervyn?


Whoops! Yup. Latest I've heard is that he's put up $.5M cash to get
the Twin Otter back so that he can return it to the leasing company.


-hh

> > > Well, Melvin's getting screwed...
> > Uhm, maybe you mean Mervyn?

> Whoops! Yup. Latest I've heard is that he's put up $.5M cash to get
> the Twin Otter back so that he can return it to the leasing company.


Must be nice to have that kind of cash just lying around.
Maybe he should just pay the landing fees instead?