Cruise ships docking in Grand Cayman????

[EastEndDiver]

Maybe I am totally misinformed or maybe I have missed it in the last 4 years that I have owned and spent lots of time on island but....someone is claiming that the Carnival Legend "docked" in Grand Cayman in 2008...Not Tendered but docked.

Have I missed something so large as a Cruise ship docking?/?/?/?

 

[fire_diver]

Impossible. I was there a few months ago and there was no dock and no dock construction. I'm guessing that the person was not aware of the terminology. Either that or that was one FAST construction project, in the middle of thier busiest tourist season.

 

[Drew Sailbum]

No dock for cruise ships in GC.... yet.

It is an ongoing topic of conversation and despite various proposals and much expounding forth by politicos so far not one scoop of earth has been moved towards building a dock for cruise ships.

They did build a new dock for the tender boats which service the cruise ships. I guess it was about 2008 when that opened.

 

[EastEndDiver]

Yup that's what i thought.

Here is the link to the person claiming to have "Docked".

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/cr...roatan-grand-cayman-belize-2.html#post5811518

Thanks

 

[diversteve]

That confused me also after I posted in the thread...found this from last month:

The long-discussed cruise ship berthing port project in George Town, Grand Cayman, appears to be moving forward.

http://www.travelweekly.com/Caribbe...ious-timetable--for-new-cruise-port/?a=cruise

 

[Testudo]

To put things in perspective, Paul Allen's "yacht" cannot even dock in Grand Cayman.

CNS Article

 

[billinwilliamston]

No dock for cruise ships in GC.... yet.

It is an ongoing topic of conversation and despite various proposals and much expounding forth by politicos so far not one scoop of earth has been moved towards building a dock for cruise ships.

They did build a new dock for the tender boats which service the cruise ships. I guess it was about 2008 when that opened.

At the risk of sounding cynical, I'll believe a cruise ship dock when I see it. Same with the East End Seaport, the 2,000 bed medical tourism complex and the 10,000 job hi-tech corridor. I'll resist the urge to throw the partially finished High School out on Frank Sound Rd onto the list.

 

[-hh]

At the risk of sounding cynical, I'll believe a cruise ship dock when I see it. Same with the East End Seaport, the 2,000 bed medical tourism complex and the 10,000 job hi-tech corridor. I'll resist the urge to throw the partially finished High School out on Frank Sound Rd onto the list.

Probably more likely to occur than most of those is that the Scott dock on the Brac will be extended out into the Marine Park without permits whatsoever to give the Brac a dock. Of course, the biggest irony is that the Brac's commercial dock was replaced a few years ago and since it only gets one ship per week (supplies), if they really wanted to have a Brac cruise ship dock, they already have one that's empty 99% of the time.


-hh

 

[slw105]

We were in Grand Cayman and Little Cayman in January and neither have a cruise ship dock. They would like to build a cruise ship dock but because of the wall drop off it will be very hard and expensive to build a dock. The cruise ship lines are insisting the government to build one.

Stephen

 

[-hh]

I can confirm as of last week via airport landing fly-over ... still no sign of any cruise ship dock anywhere near Georgetown.



-hh