Victory review with LOTS of pictures & fun times & menus Ocho Rios & Grand Cayman

[littlered87]

tour guide & video guy

 

 

 

 

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Theres a spot deep enough to be a slide- you will end up underwater -pretty cool! (and the rocks are smooth enough it doesn't hurt)

 

 

 

[littlered87]

by the way its actually super easy to climb even though its 1,000 feet it doesn't seem like it when you're doing it... it was probably one of my favorite things we've ever done. that's not to say my legs weren't a tiny bit sore the next day lol..

and every bit of it is so pretty!!!

 

This is whats to your right on your climb up

 

 

 

 

They will take your picture with your camera as well as theirs... & they sell it at the end...

I think it was like 6 or 7 dollars

Edited January 13, 2014 by littlered87

[littlered87]

The locker rentals were $8 and you get 3 back at the end when you turn the key back in, theyre pretty good size lockers. If you happen to forget water shoes they rent them there.. we bought some in Miami because im weird about feet & then threw them away after the climb ..the whole thing took about 1-1 1/2 hours then we headed to paradise beach...it would have been nice to have had a little more time at the falls to hang out on that beach

also the vendors are pretty bad at the end of the falls...very aggressive trying to hand you things then telling you you have to pay for them .. some of them will even grab your hand and try to bring you to their booth.. trying to shove weed in your face.. none of it bothered us but just be prepared for it.. I would love to have looked without them all trying to sell you this and that and attacking you but since they wasn't possible we decided to just keep walking

 

 

the stand to the left is drinks ...there were several different sodas and rum punch its unlimited but the cups they give you are 2 oz cups

 

that's the food station and a guy selling fresh coconut

 

our ship in port.. we were very close to it

 

the beach was very pretty ..but the ocean was SO rocky my toes got very cut up and we ended up not even really wanting to be there.. there is a stand off the left near the drink tent where you can ask for the shuttle.. and they will either take you to the shopping area or back to the port..

[littlered87]

one of the locals offered to take our picture if we gave him my husbands hat :eek:uh no thanks! someone else offered for free lol

 

 

 

 

 

this is the food they serve you - jerk chicken, and these 2 little potato bread things and salad with some sweet/tangy dressing... hubby loved the jerk chicken.. it was good but I cant really eat spicy stuff

 

 

there was a dj playing music and a lady teaching them a dance.. and then there were competitions and limbo .. there were showers and changing rooms ...

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limbo... and there were tents with people selling things

we decided to head to the shopping areas to shop and find a local place to get some lunch

 

we passed this..

 

 

That Cambio place is a little window where you can exchange money for their currency

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I gave them a 10 and these 2 pics are what I got back ..

 

 

and I wanted a $1 so the coin on the bottom left a local guy just gave to me

 

local dancers in the middle of the shopping center

 

[aberthelot]

Hi I can't see some of your pictures...x's.

[littlered87]

this is where we ate , it was an outdoor eatery

 

 

I ordered coconut shrimp

 

 

hubby had jerk chicken and rice

 

 

there were guys playing music along the main road

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and later back on board was Caribbean food

 

 

and all of the Caribbean food tasted terrible to me so I got a sandwich

grilled ham & cheese

 

 

it was beautiful and hot all day... and as soon as our ship was about to sail away clouds rolled in the sky turned dark and it POURED

[littlered87]

we were lazy for a while just sitting on the balcony watching the storm and the ocean enjoying the breeze ...we went to a show called love and marriage ...hilarious!!! well atleast the group of people they had up there ... one of the couples (the far left) clearly 70s-80s... one of the questions asked was if you could make one thing smaller and one thing bigger on your spouse (this question is bound to get someone in the dog house)... her answer and I think every jaw in the dropped was she wished he had a bigger penis!!! she actually said those words! even if a woman has ever thought this about her spouse I could never imagine owning up to that in front of hundreds of other people!! :eek::D

Before the show started there was a game show in the same room.. where they had groups of people with a number and the cruise director would call out an item or multiple things and every group that had that had to send one person with their number and said thing to the stage before the time limit was up & the more you had your number on the list the better chance of winning.. anyways we happened to sit down in front of this group of 4.... and the very next thing the guy called out was "woman with visible tattoos" so the guy in the group was like HEY can I borrow you!? lol... and then they asked for 2 shirtless guys... so he asked my hubby ...turns out that guy was in the service too ... one of the things was a man shirtless wearing a ladies bra & heels & earings and a handbag..they had all these things between them anyways they ended up winning... here is a picture

this is the guy we helped lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[littlered87]

Dinner tonight

 

I ordered the cured salmon to see what it was and shrimp cocktail to be on the safe side.... im glad I also ordered the shrimp ... the salmon was RAW... yuck. we both took one TINY bite...

 

 

hubby had fried shrimp

[littlered87]

I had the grilled chicken with fettucini and mushrooms.. it was yummy!

 

 

hubby ordered the jerked pork loin and the redfish

 

 

 

 

warm chocolate melting cakes of course

[littlered87]

also because ive never had tiramisu I decided to finally it and it was sooo good

 

and of course there was music and dancing

 

 

the one on the left with his back to me was our other waiter

 

and they got low lol

 

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and our towel animal

 

 

and one of the backdrops from this night

 

 

and the Jamaica picture

 

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fun times from this day

 

 

 

 

[littlered87]

We were supposed to arrive in Grand Cayman at 9 am... and since we paid for fttf we should have had priority tendering... no one ever told us where to go and we arrived in port way earlier and started tendering ahead of time and this was the only time we went to guest services and they said you don't have an fttf sticker on your card I said I wasn't aware I was supposed to have one she looked up our info (all the while were standing there waiting to get to the island) then says yes I see it I don't know why they didn't give you one... the security lady comes about 10 mins later and says theres no line you can just go ahead and go down ...okay seriously we just waited all that time for THAT? anyways

 

our tender

 

 

there are 8 connected tents with different colored roofs right at the port and this is where you wait for your excursions... several shops are a little further

 

 

We did the "best of cayman" excursion. biggest waste of money . either do this on your own or wait till you get to the island. The tour guide we had was AWFUL!!!!!!! She didn't really tell us much of anything about the island or good places to eat or shop or beach spots... the ONLY thing she talked about was hurricane ivan in 2004.. I know this hit them big time but it was TEN years ago and she went ON and ON about the hurricane.. Im being serious when I say its the ONLY thing she talked about.. it was depressing. first up was the turtle farm and she only gave us about 25 minutes here ...

 

The only parts we were allowed to go to on this tour was the white section on the bottom right

[littlered87]

I will only post a few photos from the turtle farm so you can get an idea but I took a LOT

 

 

 

 

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this was our tour guide

 

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this baby was flapping like crazy!!

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and then we got to Hel*

 

we did the typical tourist thing and got out passports stamped and mailed postcards

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we stopped at a little public beach

 

that was very rocky

 

 

and we went to the rum & rum cake places

 

and there was a tiny little zoo like thing to the right... it had bunnies, peacocks, iguanas, parrots, etc

 

then she dropped us back off at the port and we decided to walk to all the shopping and restaurants to the right of the port ... we spent about an hour shopping and then took a taxi to 7 mile beach

 

right past the port there is a margaritaville and a breezes

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I originally took this photo of a sign in front of breezes... but now that im seeing the full perspective..there is a man wearing a tank top with pink carrying a purse... :confused:

 

we went to royal palms.. got lucky enough the guy didn't make us pay for their beach access even though youre supposed to pay :rolleyes:

 

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conch fritters

 

mahi mahi sandwich

 

 

Cayman sunset at sailaway