Cruise ports in Cayman Islands

Practical basics

• Currency

  Cayman Islands dollar (KYD), pegged above the US dollar; US dollars accepted everywhere

• Language

  English

• Time zone

  Eastern Standard Time (UTC−5), no daylight saving

• Getting ashore

  0 ports with a berth, 1 where ships tender

Drawn from the individual port guides below. Currency, language and berthing can differ between ports in the same country, so the detail that matters is on each port's own page.

Every Cayman Islands cruise port

• Grand Cayman

  Tender port · 6–8 hours, shortened at both ends by tendering

  A tender port with no cruise pier, fronting a compact banking capital, Seven Mile Beach and the Stingray City sandbar.

Regions Cayman Islands sits in

• Western Caribbean

  5–7 nights · Sails year-round

  Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, reached from Gulf Coast and Florida homeports.

Other countries with cruise ports

• Antigua and Barbuda 1 port
• Aruba 1 port
• Bahamas 9 ports
• Barbados 1 port
• Belize 2 ports
• Bonaire 1 port
• British Virgin Islands 1 port
• Canada 1 port
• Croatia 2 ports
• Curaçao 1 port
• Dominica 1 port
• France 2 ports
• Greece 5 ports
• Grenada 1 port
• Guadeloupe 1 port
• Honduras 1 port
• Italy 5 ports
• Jamaica 3 ports
• Malta 1 port
• Martinique 1 port
• Mexico 8 ports
• Montenegro 1 port
• Puerto Rico 1 port
• Sint Maarten 1 port
• Spain 2 ports
• St. Kitts and Nevis 1 port
• St. Lucia 1 port
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines 1 port
• Turkey 2 ports
• United States 6 ports
• US Virgin Islands 3 ports