re: Montego Bay and Grand Cayman

Stingray City is fun but is where almost all the cruise folks go.

Having spent several week long vacations there, my recommendations are:

1. Rum Point- It is about a 25 minute drive from Georgetown. Great place to enjoy the sand and water with several good places to eat and drink as well as nice boutique type shops.

2.Cemetery Beach- it is on the North end of the gorgeous Seven Mile Beach and is a good place to snorkel. The name derives from the cemetery that is located just inland from the beach. You actually walk beside or through it from where you park. Never a ton of people there.

3.Smith Cove- very close to Georgetown. It is a very cool location that most cruise folks never go to. Locals and people vacationing for a week or more tend to visit the cove. The cove has cool rock ledges that you can snorkel around with depths often reaching 15-20 feet right beside the ledges. Been there when I saw only a few fish and other times when I saw fish everywhere. But it is great to look at the rock formations underwater even without fish present.

4. Stingray City- fun little excursion but again...you will be packed in with a horde of other cruise people. The three above are better in my opinion.

Oh yeah. Don't waste your time going to Hell. It is very underwhelming. That is a place to go for an hour on about day 6 of a week long vacation.