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Title: Cayman Islands Adventure Guide
Author: Paris Permenter, John Bigley
Narrator: Greg Smith
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-24-16
Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc.
Genres: Travel & Adventure, Guided Tours
Publisher's Summary:
This is among our top sellers in the previous editions. All of our Caymans guides have sold exceptionally well. The Caymans are ultra-prosperous and safe, with great resorts, fabulous watersports, and terrific restaurants. A major stop for cruise ships, there are 1,800,000 cruise visitors per year, plus 250,000+ arriving by plane. Lots of detail on the shopping, dining, hotels, sightseeing, and entertainment, based on personal visits by the authors plus a special emphasis on activities such as boating, fishing, golf, walking, biking, scuba diving, snorkeling, and bird watching. Other activities included are paragliding, sailing, catamaran cruises, soaring, waterskiing, windsurfing, driving trips, and horseback riding.
For all of these, the authors give a list of local operators who can set you up with equipment, ferry you around from site to site, or actually guide you on the trips. Diverse woodlands and pristine wetlands occupy much of the islands interiors, rugged hiking trails meander across the peaks and valleys, and mangrove swamps cushion the shoreline, offering a unique breeding ground for many birds and fish. These protected wilderness areas are often left unexplored by lay-in-the-sun-all-day tourists, who miss some of the biggest attractions the islands offer. We tell you how to see them all. The authors then take you touring, visiting all the popular tourist sites and towns, offering valuable tips on shopping, transportation, restaurants, and accommodations.
Members Reviews:
A nice guide to activities in the Caymans
This book is easy to read and helpful, although it sounds more like a Chamber of Commerce description than independent opinions. I prefer for authors of travel guides to offer advice on what is NOT great, rather than just listing everything with positive comments only. (Although, see my review of Frommer's Portable Cayman Islands, where I believe editorial comment is overdone.)
Up-to-date and Comprehensive but Could have used Better Maps
This is a very recent guidebook (Feb 1998), and therefore, provided the most up to date information on what is available in the Caymans. I purchased the book to provide more detail than that provided in the "Fodors" guidebook and was pleased with the amount of detail provided in this book. For example, it was the only place that informed me that a championship golf course was located on Grand Cayman Island. Other references only identified a single "par three" course on Grand Cayman. I give it high marks for it's insight on the atmosphere and costs at restaurants and hotels along Seven Mile Beach and West Bay.
A major improvement to the guidebook would be to include better, more difinitive maps. For example, my wife and I spent an hour trying to find "Stingray Brewery" which was identified as being "west of town" in the book. It would have taken us ten minutes to find it if they provided a decent map. In general, the authors seem very comfortable providing verbal directions to everything in the book. This technique drives this vacationer absolutely crazy because the roads in Cayman change names often and it seems that a map is the easiest way to find something quickly.
Even though this guidebook is very recent, some of the information is outdated. For example, a strong recommendation was made to visit the "new" cultural center at the Hyatt on Seven Mile Beach.
