I would not want to go traveling around with a bunch of meat in my suitcases anyway. It’s good to know you can get good fresh beef there in the stores.

Since I have plenty of extra baggage allowance and a strong back, I would like to bring some frozen chicken or beef on my trip. Can anyone outline the permit process?? Here’s to good eats.

:cheers:

Blaze

As per cigarettes, if I remember correctly, my wife bought a carton (Marlboro Lights) in the supermarket for about $26 CI… Per pack about $4 CI. Duty free at the airport $15 US (for going home only…) This was last week, BTW.

Sue & Paul

Thanks for the info.

MJ

And the :band: played on.

No, it is definitely NOT cheaper to eat out than it would be to eat in…..sure, the prices on the food in the grocery store are a little higher than you would find in the states, but the restaurants are higher also. Actually, the difference in buying groceries vs. eating out is about the same as here in the states. Do you know what I mean? Both are a little more……

But, you know what? I don’t care if it’s cheaper to eat in……I still like going out….we eat breakfast and lunch in our condo and then go out almost every night…….

Hope this helps. :dine:

The new chicken place Shelley is speaking of is Calypso Chicken.

We ate there twice this last trip. Not only was the food very good, but the service was exceptional, and the price a nice bonus.

Great food at great prices…and something for everyone!

This is something that has really changed in the last few years, and I’m not sure that I have the most up to date information….I think that there are new restrictions on beef, lately, because of recent concerns about mad cow disease, or whatever. Friends of ours, who had brought in frozen meat for years, had all of theirs taken from them upon arrival in 2004, but I’m not sure what was taken and what wasn’t.

I had always understood that if you wanted to bring in some frozen meat, that you were supposed to leave the original label on the package. Don’t know if that has changed or not.

In my opinion, it is really unnecessary to bother with bringing in a lot of food nowadays, because the grocery stores have gotten to be SOOO nice. When we first started going to Cayman twenty years ago, everyone brought coolers full of food, but not very many people do that anymore. The stores have improved so much and you’ll find everything you need……maybe a little bit more expensive than at home, but not that much.

Char