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capital, and is only a shor t taxi ride fr om most of the hotels along
Seven M ile B each. C ustoms can be aggr essive at times, and y ou'll
need to sho w a firmly booked hotel r eservation and an ongoing or
return plane ticket.
The D epartment of Tourism operates an information bur eau
(
&
345/949-2635
), which is open daily from 11am to 9pm, right at
the airport. You'll also find ATMs in the airpor t, which can dispense
money in either Cayman I sland or U.S. dollars. F or a list of airlines
that travel to the Cayman I slands, see “Airline, Hotel & Car R ental
Websites,” p. 191.
FROM THE UNITED ST ATES
The Cayman I slands ar e easily
accessible. Flying time from Miami is 1 hour 20 minutes; from Hous-
ton, 2 hours 45 minutes; fr om Tampa, 1 hour 40 minutes; and fr om
Atlanta, 1 hour 30 minutes. O nly a handful of nonstop flights ar e
available from the U.S. Midwest, so most visitors use M iami as their
gateway.
Cayman Airways
(
&
800/422-9626
in the U.S. and Canada, or
345/949-2311; www.caymanairways.com) offers the most fr equent
service to G rand Cayman, with thr ee daily flights fr om Miami, five
flights a week from Tampa, and three flights a week from New York.
Also available is seasonal service from Chicago and Washington, D.C.
Many visitors also fly to G rand Cayman on
American Airlines
(
&
800/433-7300;
www.aa.com), which offers direct nonstop flights
from M iami to G rand Cayman daily . D uring the winter months,
Northwest Airlines
(
&
800/225-2525;
www .nwa.com) flies to
Grand Cayman fr om Detroit and M emphis.
US Airways
(
&
800/
622-1015;
www .usairways.com) offers daily nonstop flights fr om
Charlotte, North Carolina; on Saturday, it also has flights to G eorge
Town fr om P hiladelphia and has once-a-w eek ser vice fr om Boston
during the winter .
Delta Air Lines
(
&
800/221-1212;
www.delta.
com) flies daily into G rand Cayman from its hub in A tlanta.
Conti-
nental Airlines
(
&
800/231-0856;
www .continental.com) offers
daily ser vice betw een its H ouston hub and G rand Cayman. I t also
flies from Newark, New Jersey, on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday.
FROM CANADA
Air Canada
(
&
888/247-2262;
www.aircanada.
com) flies nonstop fr om Toronto to G eorge Town once w eekly, on
Sunday. The flight takes 4 hours.
FROM THE U.K.
British Airways
(
&
800/AIRWAYS
[247-9297]
in the U.S., or 0870/859-9850 in the U.K.; www.britishairways.com)
has dir ect flights fr om London 's H eathrow to G rand Cayman on
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and S aturday, with r eturning flights on
the same days. The plane touches do wn briefly at N assau in The
Bahamas. Total flight time is 10 hours. British Airways also flies twice
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