diverswifey
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Cayman Islands | Little Cayman | Paradise Villas, Little Cayman very accurate photos and information just in case you are interested
Little Cayman accommodations / food
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diverswifey
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PS again! Also an easy walk from Paradise villas is the Seahorse Cafe and Bakery which has delicious breakfast, lunch, baked products, coffee, etc. I ate breakfast there a couple of times then we had lunch there a couple of times- took some breakfast pastries back to the cottage to have the next day. Super nice people.
Damselfish
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We discovered the Seahorse cafe last time we were there, nice little place. (Mostly because there was a geocache there lol.) I think it is run by someone who was at Pirates Point, forget the details. Possibly it was Gladys’ daughter?
Damselfish
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Now that I think about it I believe she said everyone assumes she’s Gladys daughter, but she’s not. Just someone else who worked there. Gladys daughter might have moved back to TX.
Doctorfish
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Gay Morse runs the Seahorse with her husband.
She managed the dive op at Pirates for many years and is a member of the International Scuba Hall of Fame.
She is a great diver, lovely woman, and interesting storyteller.
Seahorse is a great place to go for coffee, snacks, lunch, or to pick up a sandwich for the trip back to GC. They also have gifts, t shirts and various sundries. If you have time, she and her husband have cleared a nature trail from the back of the shop down to the shoreline.
She managed the dive op at Pirates for many years and is a member of the International Scuba Hall of Fame.
She is a great diver, lovely woman, and interesting storyteller.
Seahorse is a great place to go for coffee, snacks, lunch, or to pick up a sandwich for the trip back to GC. They also have gifts, t shirts and various sundries. If you have time, she and her husband have cleared a nature trail from the back of the shop down to the shoreline.
AggieDiver
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Just for clarity on the LCBR 7 day thing, My experience has been that they prefer 7-day trips go sat-sat, but that they understand not everybody wants to do 7 days and that saturday flight availability, particularly on short notice can be spotty to non-existent. I also think it is more flexible during lower occupancy times of the year. Every time that I have talked to them about a late summer or early fall trip and told them I could not get saturday flights to match my airline schedule coming from the US, they were more than willing to let us go sun-sun or fri-fri.
diverswifey
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aggie- thanks, but still a week stay?
AggieDiver
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Every once in a while they send out some 5 day package deals, but they are usually shorter notice, like they have some openings they are trying to fill a month or so out. Typically they start promoting the low season 7-day packages in late spring and then a month or two later come out with some short term sales that either throw in lunch on the two meal per day package, afternoon dives on the two dive per day packages or free 3 drink per day packages.
Damselfish
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At one point they were trying to deal with the (lack of) airlift situation by trying to get more Sat flights, which is when many but certainly not all people tend to travel. Ideas such as getting people to fly Cayman Air MIA-> Brac then getting more flights added from there. They’ve also experimented with Little/Brac packages with a boat transfer in the middle.
But in the end it became all about maximizing occupancy, one of their people actually said this in some interview years back. I somewhat get it, but the Sat-Sat thing just makes the airlift situation worse and is not especially customer friendly. I make a point of avoiding Saturday travel whenever possible to avoid the zoo. I prefer Caribbean trips of like 10-12 nights, and short notice doesn’t work for us. So I simply don’t bother with them anymore.
They ought to try a model like Turneffe Island resort, where there are transfers on Sat and Wednesdays. That could help room utilization over random arrivals, allow some flexibility, and offload some air passengers to another day.
But in the end it became all about maximizing occupancy, one of their people actually said this in some interview years back. I somewhat get it, but the Sat-Sat thing just makes the airlift situation worse and is not especially customer friendly. I make a point of avoiding Saturday travel whenever possible to avoid the zoo. I prefer Caribbean trips of like 10-12 nights, and short notice doesn’t work for us. So I simply don’t bother with them anymore.
They ought to try a model like Turneffe Island resort, where there are transfers on Sat and Wednesdays. That could help room utilization over random arrivals, allow some flexibility, and offload some air passengers to another day.
My experience was that LCBR was willing to talk about non Sat-Sat stays after we cancelled our reservation (and had already reserved somewhere else). Maybe just a miscommunication, but it doesn't leave a warm feeling: we had explained already that plane connections were difficult to impossible.
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