Grand Cayman Jewelry Stores: Colombian Emeralds and Duty Free Stuff!

Grand Cayman jewelry stores and duty free shopping can be the most relaxed browsing you'll ever do, if you go when the cruise ships aren't in. If you're the kind of shopper who likes the 'cut-and-thrust of commerce' then choose a cruise ship day and you'll have all the excitement of Christmas shopping with the added bonus of duty-free making it feel like the Boxing Day sales, see the picture below.

For everyday Grand Cayman shopping, food and other supplies, you need to visit our webpage devoted to everyday stuff! That page is where you'll find the Hurley's and Foster's supermarkets.

Grand Cayman Traffic Jam When a Cruise Ship Arrives

Here's a Grand Cayman duty free shopping walking tour for those of you getting off a cruise ship in Grand Cayman. Exit the port, ignore the tour buses lined up for business, and cross the street where you'll see your first (of many) Grand Cayman jewelry stores -- Columbian Emeralds International, selling, as you'd guess, jewellery with a mainly emerald theme. If green is your color and jewelry your thing, then this is your store. You can even buy from them after you get home from: www.dutyfreecaribbean.ky

Exit the Emerald store and turn left to start shopping, or window-shopping, along Harbour Drive.

The first place you'll come to, after you cross Cardinal, is another Grand Cayman jewelry store -- Landmark Jewellers -- part of the Island Companies. Their website is: www.islandCompaniesLtd.com. This store can make you jewelry from ancient coins, Spanish doubloons would seem the topical choice for a holiday in the old 'Spanish Main' but they also do ancient Greek, Roman or biblical times and places. The main drag for shoppers, Cardinal (or Cardinall, you'll see both spellings) Avenue, cuts through the duty-free district and now you've done the two stores either side of it, you've a hard choice to make. Follow Cardinal or keep to Harbour Drive?

As I'm leading this tour, and I like the sea view and salt air, we're continuing down Harbour, past the Museum and Goring Avenue, to the Bayshore Mall where we find another of our Grand Cayman jewelry stores: Kirk Freeport.

Passing the Hard Rock Cafe, or dropping in for refreshment (if you insist) but not for too long because, as your tour guide, I can tell you we have treat coming up. Did I mention I like Rum Cake?

Our next stop is the Tortuga Rum Company, Duty Free Liquors and Fine Wine Emporium, which happens to sell (and ship) rum cake as well as providing free samples should you need convincing. They also have a web address: www.tortugarums.com so you can have care parcels shipped when you get home. The walk to Tortuga Rum's store has taken us away from the main shopping district so we have to double back when we leave the shop, passing Hard Rock (do try, or you won't be steady enough to finish the tour) and the Bayshore Mall again, before turning right onto Goring Avenue.

Following Goring a short distance brings us to Cayman Camera, which sells all things camera related. Their web address is: www.caymancamera.com.

Retracing our steps on Goring, we reach the junction with Edward Street. A short walk on Edward takes us to a roundabout where we have a choice of a right turn onto Elgin, and the ‘Hobbies and Books’ store, or continuing on Edward to the Caymania Duty Free in the Royal Plaza building. Here's where you'll find the original (and trademarked) Cayman Island Hook Bracelet as well as other fancy gifts.

Continuing on Edward, and crossing Cardinal again, we arrive at the Duty Free Centre where you'll find stores like British Outpost and 'De Sunglass Man'.

From the Duty Free Centre we return to Edward Street and, turning right, continue on our way to Fort Street. ['Be not alarmed' by all this walking, George Town must be one of the world's smallest capital cities. The distance we've covered so far has probably taken no more than thirty minutes.]

At Fort we turn left, heading back to the water, passing the Bacchus Restaurant and Wine Bar on our right, or stopping for refreshments if it's that time of day -- and, on vacation, when isn't it that time of day?

On our left, just after we leave Bacchus, is another Island Companies’ store and shortly after that we reach the junction with North Church Street -- where we turn right.

Then it’s a very short walk to The Waterfront Centre and The Camera Store with its own Cathy Church Underwater Photo Gallery. Some of you may have landed on Grand Cayman across the street from here because this is the site of the new cruise ship terminal. The Camera Store’s website is: www.thecamerastorecayman.com or phone: 345-949-4551

Now we retrace our steps (or begin the tour if you've just joined us from the new cruise ship terminal) heading back toward Hog Sty Bay and the center of Grand Cayman duty free shopping action on Cardinal Avenue. You won't miss Cardinal because it begins right where my tour started -- at the first of our Grand Cayman jewelry stores -- Columbian Emeralds.

First, the Anchorage Centre, a mall hosting such stores as Caribbean Jewellers, Churchill's Cigar Store, Grand Switzerland Jewelry, House of Tanzanite, London Jewellers, and Tropical Trader -- Grand Cayman island souvenirs for pretty well everyone on your list. Further along Cardinal is the Kirk Jewellers flagship store including boutiques of Cartier, Fossil, Swatch. Waterford and Wedgewood, and Kirk leather.

The Grand Cayman jewelry stores' shopping I've described on this page is all about personal gifts for yourself and your family. There are other purchases that are equally important but I'll put them on new pages, for example, Grand Cayman art galleries provide a wealth of Grand Cayman jewelry stores' shopping experiences with a dash of culture thrown in.

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