Grand Cayman Jewelry Stores:
Diamonds International and Other 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 Fosters supermarkets.

Grand Cayman Jewelry Stores, traffic jam on Main Street

Grand Cayman Traffic Jam When a Cruise Ship Arrives

Shopping Inside the Fence:

The duty free area of George Town is right at the harbor, in fact nowadays you don’t even need to go into town as the Royal Watler building is inside the cruise ship compound and has a bar and stores, such as Caymania Duty Free where you’ll find the original (and trademarked) Cayman Island Hook Bracelet as well as other fancy gifts.

Grand Cayman Jewelry Stores — Outside the Fence!

The town’s duty-free shopping is just outside the fence and in handy reach of cruise ship visitors, with a few important outliers for buyers who still have their land legs.

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 – Diamonds International, selling watches at this location.

Walking Tour

They have two other locations that I’ll point out on our tour.

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

Along Harbour you’ll find Landmark Jewellers, another one of many Grand Cayman jewelry stores and 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 we’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. Also in this area, at the Hard Rock Store, is another of the Diamonds International stores.

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. ‘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 twenty minutes.

At Fort we turn right and find the third Diamonds International outlet in the Tanzanite International store on Madison Place.

Now we retrace our steps 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 — Diamonds International.

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. For more Cayman jewelry, visit our Jewelry page.

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

The new place for shopping, and so much more, on Grand Cayman is the outdoor Mall, Caymana Bay.

If shopping is your profession as well as your passion, there are opportunities in Grand Cayman for retailers and retail staff. Our Cayman jobs page may give you some ideas for both.

And, if you want to do lots of shopping, you’ll probably need to know where the banks or financial services are on Grand Cayman.

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