Getting to Grand Cayman Airport or arriving by sea: Planes and Ships

Getting to the Grand Cayman airport is easy. How?

Well, who flies direct to Grand Cayman?

Grand Cayman flights leave Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, New York and Boston all have direct flights on local US carriers, Air Canada out of Toronto from Canada, and British Airways from London's Heathrow.

And who flies into Grand Cayman?

Many different airlines fly into the 'Owen Roberts International Airport' to give the airport its proper name; American Air (from Miami), Air Canada (from Toronto), Air Jamaica (from Kingston), British Airways (from Nassau in the Bahamas), Continental Airlines (from Newark and Philadelphia), Delta Airlines (from Atlanta), Northwest Airlines (from Detroit and Minneapolis-St. Paul), US Airways (from Charlotte), and Spirit Airlines (from Ft. Lauderdale). Other cities you can fly from are Chicago, Durham/Raleigh, Buffalo, Nashville, Orlando, San Francisco, Tampa Bay, and Washington DC.

And what airline flies Grand Cayman to the Sister Islands?

Cayman Airways, the Cayman Islands own airline. It flies five regular services between the other Cayman islands (Little Cayman and Cayman Brac) each day, as well as flights to the US and other Caribbean destinations.

The Grand Cayman airport has all the facilities you'd expect from a busy tourist connection; money exchange office and automatic machine, restaurants, cafeterias and bars, gift and duty free shops, Chemist Shop/Drug Store, Help Desk, and Post Office for those last minute cards to people you forgot. All the things you need to while away the last hour of your Grand Cayman holidays and use up the change in your pocket the bank back home won't exchange.

Car rentals at Grand Cayman airport and the Taxi Rank are right outside the terminal in the glorious sun and warm breezes. After a long northern winter, even something as mundane as picking up a car feels like heaven.

A large number of visitors travel to Grand Cayman, about 200,000 a year, arrive by cruise ship. Many Caribbean cruises make stops at George Town usually for a few hours or at most a day. Lots of those visitors stop off at the waterfront bars -- principally Margaritaville and Hard Rock Cafe -- or the Duty Free Shopping on the waterfront.

For the more adventurous, however, tour buses line up at the dock for trips to Hell, the Turtle Farm , and Seven Mile Beach. You can also fly into Grand Cayman airport and meet your ship at George Town after holidaying a day or two on the island.

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