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1 Jan 17th, 2001 

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I had the misfortune to stay two weeks at the Cayman Islander. Superficially it looked quite good, but the experience was anything but. Having booked a twin room we were surprised to be escorted to a double room. Granted, the bed was six foot wide, but we were expecting two double beds, which is the norm for a twin room in the region. The manager assured us that they had no twin rooms but I have since met people who actually stayed in one. The maid service left a lot to be desired, she took a couple of hours to do little or nothing in our room, and we frequently got calls from the desk, asking us to pass messages to the maid. Our TV packed up after a couple of days and it took them over a week to fix it. I had to see the general manager before anything was done, and all they did then was swap it for one in a room that had just been vacated.

A few yards from our balcony, in the gardens, was the ice machine and having seen what crawled in and out of it we declined to use it. We did fill a jug and stand un-opened bottles in it, but there's no way that ice was going in any drink of mine.

Breakfast was entertaining - rock hard streaky bacon, shrivled egg and home fries. Home fries are fried potatoe peelings - honestly. We had only booked breakfast for one week, thankfully, and bought sandwiches from the neighbouring filling station for the second week.

The pool was empty for the first few days, something to do with pollution, but they filled it later. They had a lovely lake in the grounds, with hundreds of baby turtles or terrapins, I'm not sure which.

Many people complained of itching whilst we were there, and on our return I got the same - it turned out to be scabies. What a hovel.

 

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BNibbles 26.01.2001 08:21

What's the betting that the people who go to the Caymans to count their off-shore money don't stop here? Very well described - it made me itchy just reading it!

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