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 Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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Well, based on my last 2 visits in less than so many years, Cayman Kai IS how Rum Point WAS, about 5 years ago, before they started bussing in the cruise shippers, before they started selling burgers for $10! Before a lot of things, guess they call it progress, before that, used to be you could take a book, stop and pick up a six with a pack of ice, lay back at Rum Point all day. The only sounds I remember from those days were the muffled screams of a few volleyball players. The last TWO times, the place was infested, and I don't exaggerate. I mean INFESTED, like between the little shack where they sell the $10 burgers, all the way to the beach and both directions from the end of the parking lot to whatever it is over on the right. So we are talking about the whole place. People nowhere more than 5 feet apart, and that is being generous. Many people from the bar outward, pushed and shoved in and out like herds of beef to the slaughter. I've never seen anything like it and never will again, packed up, went to Kaibo and the rest is history.
I know I could plan my entire vacation around when the cruise puppies are gonna get rounded up that a way, usually on a middle day, like a mon-fri, maybe not fri. But that's not the point... The point is, why SHOULD I???? Why should I, who am paying about $1,000 a day just to be there, with air, hotel, everything factored in. Why shoudl I have to plan my vacation time around a bunch of people who didn't pay more for their whole vacation than I did for those few hours of mine they ruined? That sounded worse than it should have, let me put it another way. When I am going to a top dollar destination, and let's face it, the Caymans are a top dollar destination, then why in the name of Mother God in Hell SHOULD I have to rearrange 1 minute of my time, let alone an ENTIRE DAY, to whenever it makes sense from the least cruise people perspective? Can anyone give me one good reason for that?
So I guess you can tell I get a little impassioned when I see one of my favorite places go up in smoke. Literally! The time BEFORE last, the straw before the straw that broke the camel's back, some stupid socks with hard shoes wearing sort pants idiot decided it would be a good idea to put his LIT CIGARETTE in the trash basket, loaded with GREASY PAPER AND PLASTIC! As anyone who's eaten there, they know how the food is served and how greasy it is. Does it take a rocket scientist to figure out that maybe, just maybe, putting a LIT cigarette in with all that combustible junk isn't such a good idea. But noooooooooooooooooooooooo. Toss it in, what the hey! We're on the next bus out in 10 minutes, so let the next bus load of idiots deal with it. Then a different idiot who had WAY too many drinks, spilled part of his ridiculously priced pina colada or some other fancy drink right on my wife's shirt! All I will say about that, is that moron is SOooooooooooooooooooo lucky that I had just gotten there and only started my beer. If he pulled that a couple hours later after I'd had a few beers, he'd be wearing that pina whatava all over his face, dripping down his short checkered pants, down the white socks, right onto his black hard heel shoes!
So that was that. The end of another era for me at Grand Cayman brings the beginning of a new one. I can not comment on Cayman Kai because they are not a CAG recommended place. But Joe, I'm telling you, if you go down there and compare the two places, I mean REALLY compare, like you did so well with the condos, like you did so well with the restaurants. Really look around and see what the different places are serving, how much they are charging, how much room you get between the tables, you know, those things you pride yourself on. Look at that, and then tell me and everyone else that Rum Point is the place to go. You always talk about credibility, get rid of Rum Point, their 3 times the going rate prices for second rate greasy food, and their crowded beyond any realistic level beach with drunken fools who don't give a hoot about the island pushing and shoving for their next $15 pina colada. Compare that........ Then go to the "Other" place. Look at their view, thier trees, their hammocks, their PRICES, their FOOD QUALITY, their QUIET RELAXED PEACE. Look at their beatutiful starfish near the beach, snorkel level water. Peace and quiet.
Please Joe, tell us. Which is better? |
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