Morritt’s Resort on the North East Coast
Amy Beasley

One note on the tendering into Grand Cayman, if you’re ready by 7:00 – 7:30 a.m. you can take the tender over without a tender ticket, this is a good option, and I’d highly recommend doing it because the tender tickets are a time consuming process. The nice thing is that the tenders are quite large – two decks, and they’re open so they don’t get all stuffy and uncomfortable. The currency exchange rate in Grand Cayman is $.80 on the dollar, so in general, things in Cayman are more expensive. We took a taxi $4/person (plus tip) to the beach, however she dropped us off at the nearest beach, and it wasn’t the nicest one, a ton of shells on the shoreline and for the first 8 feet of water, so it made it painful to get into the ocean (this was also the case in Cozumel, so I think it may be a result of the hurricanes). Anyhow, the beach we were at, had ball rentals for $2 (and a deposit consisting of your cruise card – I guess they REALLY want to make sure you return their football to them), they also boasted to have volleyball, but when we inquired about the volleyball, they said, “No, it takes up too much beach area.” Jet Ski rentals were something like $70/ ½ hour?!? One of the other couples we were traveling with ended up walking down the street and renting a SUV for $80 so we took it up to Morritt’s Resort on the North East coast in search of windsurfing because on the internet it had said that was the only place on the island that had windsurfing, but after a 1 hour drive up to the resort, we were told they don’t have windsurfing anymore. It was an interesting drive (kind of rough roads and slow going though), we stopped at a tasty little restaurant on the side of the road called “Chesters” for jerk chicken and rice.

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