Grand Old House
648 South Church St., George Town
1-345-949-9333
This beautiful old plantation home serves delicious and creative food and drinks, and offers indoor dining and amazing sunsets from the deck tables.
Tukka
898 Queens Highways, East End Grand Cayman
1-345-947-2700
www.tukka.ky
Try the crab and croc fritters, or the Walk-About soup, or any of the tasty concoctions of Australian chef-owner Ron Hargrave.
Westin Grand Cayman Seven Mile Beach Resort
1149 Seven Mile Beach
1-345-945-3800
The resort has a few top-notch restaurants. For more casual dining, try the Beach House, which has small and large plates, scrumptious desserts, and fun drinks.
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Go to Hell
Hell Post Office, Hell Road, West Bay
This speck on the map includes a post office and souvenir shop, the better to buy and mail postcards with a Hell postmark. On summer days, it is hot as, well, hell.
Seven Mile Beach
This is the sandiest expanse on the island. Take your towel and find a spot. No beach is private, even at resorts such as the Westin and the Ritz-Carlton. Snorkeling is good at Cemetery Beach on the north end.
Stingray City
Find a local charter to take you to the Stingray City sandbar, where you can mingle with the tame rays, who will even eat out of your hand. We took a catamaran with Red Sail Sports on Seven Mile Beach, which made a snorkeling stop first, then on to the stingrays. Prices vary among operators. We paid $40 each — a steep discount since our daughter is “local.”
Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park
East End
1-345-947-3558
This beautiful park includes woodland trails, an orchid boardwalk, hundreds of palm species, a “colour garden” and lily pad ponds, and is the habitat of the highly endangered blue iguana. Admission $10.
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Seven Fathoms Rum Distillery
1-345-925-5379
www.rum.ky
Call and they will direct you to their hard-to-find George Town distillery. Tours are $15 a person and include generous sips of their various rums.