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If you had to choose ... Aruba or Grand Cayman?

Some years ago Grand Cayman started a timeshare tax. Think it's $10CI or $12.50USD per night. Think the departure tax at the airport is still $10CI as well. However, our stay in Aruba had both a nightly tax and an energy charge. It added up to $8USD per night but I understand it varies.
Provided you don't scare easily I wouldn't miss 'Stingray City" in Grand Cayman. The story goes fishermen used to stand on the sandbar (about waist deep) and clean their their fish. Now visitors can interact with the stingrays which are quite tame. (I do shuffle my feet through the sand to avoid stepping on them.) There's a deeper area divers enjoy as well.
 
1st of all, what time of year are you thinking of going? cayman is prone to hurricane activity at a certain time of the year.. so if that is when you are thinking of going on vacation then ARUBA because it is not in the hurricane belt.
anyway, i have been to both and i liked ARUBA better. JMO
 
We paid a timeshare tax and a utilities fee at Morritt's last month. I think the utilities bill was about $65 a week. Lots of people were complaining that it was too high. RCI had warned us in advance about this cost.
 
I liked them both. Aruba was definitly more memorable. I met so many tuggers and the people of the island are some of the most warm and genuine people I've ever met. I also got to test their supurb medical hospital as Kelli & I got food poisoning and a few days later I got caught in a rip tide and almost drowned but was rescued by the tour guide. These two incidents are how I met the warm and genuine people. It was definitly the most adventourous (SP) trip I've ever been on.

I also loved the Caymans as I am an avid snorkeler. It was more expensive by far. I would choose the Caymans, Kelli chooses Aruba.

Guess this wasn't any help as it was a split :rolleyes: shaggy
 
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