Grand Cayman excursion

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rns91294

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Hello. The Grand Princess does an excursion in Grand Cayman (can't think of the name of it right now). It stops at Seven Mle Beach, Hell, The turtle farm and then the stingray snorkling thing. It is 4 1/2 hours long. I was curious if anyone did this or knows anyone that did this. How long are you in each place? Is there enough time to enjoy everything? It just seems like a short amount of time to fit all that it. Also, it is like $56 where the 3 1/2 hour tour to stingray sandbar only in $70some dollars. I would love to see everything possible, but is it worth it or should I just do the stingrays? Somebody please help me!!!!
 
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Chiquita

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I believe the ship excursion you are talking about does go to all the places you mentioned the one thing you don't get to do though is get into the water with the stingrays, you just go in a glass bottom boat and look at them, only a short stop...definitely no where near as fun as getting into the water and playing with them
I would recommend the following excursion that we are doing if you want to do stingray city as well as turtle farm and hell:

We've booked Snorkelers Dream Stingray City Catamaran and we get a 10am-1:30 snorkeling and stingray city trip on a catamaran and then we are picked up right after and taken to the Turtle farm, Hell and Governors house(is that right?) and then back to the port. (1.5hrs they say). We pay $34 adults and $20 for kids the Catamaran trip and then the private island tour for $20 per person.

So we get it all for $54 for adults and $40 for our kids...I belive the entire excursion will be 5 hrs long!! Just make sure you tell them you want the island tour and they set it all up for you
 
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p.g.

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I would not do the ships tour to the turtle farm, it was boring( just abunch of turtles swimming in vats) I would do the Sting Ray tour, you'll have time to go to seven mile beach on the way back , plus since you'll be in the water you may not feel the need to bother with 7 mile beach, the water is beautiful and clear everywhere!!
The above post sounds good, I'd look into it.
 
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PassthePeas

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Was thinking about booking the Island Highlights tour as well, that RNS is talking about.... The paper mentions the tour includes the turtle farm, "hell" and snorkeling with the stingrays. Even says that you snorkel with, feed, and interact with the stingrays. Says that snorkeling equipment is included. I found it under tour GCM-Q on the shore excursion area at Princess.com. Does this sound like the same tour? Thanks!
 
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rns91294

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Yes, that sounds like the same tour. In fact, it definitely is not a glass bottom boat, because it says food is included for the stingrays. I did like th e above post about that tour, but the link I clicked on does not work.
 
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