AMAZING adventure!! - My daughter and I enjoyed our trip to Pedro's Castle and the Botanical Gardens!!! We had the most AMAZING tour guide, Tricia!! We paid a little extra for the guided tour of Pedro's castle and it was worth every penny!!! She was very knowledgeable, engaging, and one of the top 5 best tour guides I've ever had!! Also, our shuttle driver Ariel! He was patient and engaging with all our questions on Cayman history and everyday life on the island. The Botanical Gardens were beautiful and the self-guided tour made it nice to go at our own pace. The best part was actually seeing blue iguana at an arms length!❤️ They both went above and beyond for us!!

Great park experience! - We loved the visit here for the day, bring water bottles with water, a backpack with snacks( no food purchase here, just ice cream), and non alcohol drinks. You can be here for over 4 hours easily. We also walked quite a lot to many areas, can be over a mile if walk all of it. We saw lots of flowers, plants, history, and blue iguanas all over! We rented a car, was at Morritts Resort and drove here, rent a car, can get USA style!!! It was worth the visit and was humid, wore light clothing, and needed bug spray! My tanning lotion worked don't miss a spot! They also provide some if forget to bring some, spray before walk. Small gift shop and humongous blue iguana as enter! Way cool, love it !

Beautiful Island Botanic Gardens - This is a beautiful garden with all types of species of flowers, plants, and trees. Also there’s a whole section designated to fruit bearing trees. Great information provided on the various plants. The iguana center was also a highlight of the trip.

Queen Elizabeth Botanical Gardens - A nice 1/2 day experience. A lot of nice walking trails. Really enjoyed the Blue Iguana exhibit - a lot of animals to see - and they appear well taken care of. Easy walking trails. Definitely worth the time. We were unable to be on the water that day due to high winds. - so this was a nice change as a land activity.

A nice excursion in grand caymen - Leaving the port was delayed about 40 minutes and that shortened our time at the three stops we made at the gardens, the blow holes, and the castle, but we fit it all in and got back to the ship in plenty of time for departure which is most important. The gardens were amazing and the video at the castle very informative.

Fun visits but cramped transportation. - The tour destinations were pretty interesting. Castle is a historical house. Botanical garden was fun as it included lots of blue iguanas. Our ride was a small Nissan car with 5 people crammed in so very uncomfortable. Our legs were sore and cramped. Shouldn't have taken more than 2 guests in that car. We are not big people and we couldn't fit in car.

Very disappointed. - Very disappointed. Waited 20 minutes at the port for stragglers which the reservation said they absolutely wouldn’t do. Spent an excruciating more than hour at Pedro St. James with a nice guide who went too far into the weeds on the history of the site. The tour description said we would spend 30 minutes there. It also said we would go to the Botanic Gardens first to spend 90 minutes. Nope - because we did Pedro St. James first, the driver told us we had 45 minutes at the Gardens. The four of us had to push it to an hour. It was not enough time to see everything. We spent 10 minutes at the iguana sanctuary then rushed to see the gardens. We only made it as far as the entrance to the Color Garden before jogging back to be at the bus at 12:30 pm. The driver arrived at 12:40; I could have run through the Color Garden. On the bright side, despite being in a rented 9-passenger van without WiFi instead of the WiFi-enabled bus, we had an enjoyable ride home. Patrick was nice and informative, being a native Caymanian.

Disappointing Tour - There was NO organization upon checking in for the tour. No one was at booth until close to 9:15, but we were told to be there no later than 9AM. It took nearly an hour for the owner (Victor) to get us to our van, where we found that it was not able to accommodate our entire party due to its ridiculously small size. Our driver, Ian (?), did an outstanding job of trying to keep us all happy and he was very knowledgeable on the sites. For that we were very grateful. And Victor did offer to reimburse us 50% which was a good gesture and appreciated. However, we should not have had to endure that stress AND a very uncomfortable van to ride in.

Poor time management - 9:00 AM tour left at 9:30. Spent 25 minutes to taste rum cake which wasn't on our itinerary. The highlight for us was to be one hour at the botanical gardens. We were rushed through in only 30 minutes. Very poor time management.

Stay Away From Cay Tours!!!! - Disorganized mess!!! I would give it zero dots if I could. Note that this is NOT a review of the gardens or the house, which were good. It's the tour company that was awful. I saw HALF of what I should have and got a lot of extra stress because we were so late. I booked this tour through a booking agency. I was told where to wait, but nobody showed up. Fortunately, my cell roaming was working and the tour dispatcher called me to tell me where I had to be. Five minute walk, not a big deal--but what if my phone hadn't worked???? Once I got there, I checked in. There were two other people from my ship and two more from another ship. Our tour was combined with the tour to the caves. We waited 30 minutes before the bus showed up. The dispatcher said we would all go to Pedro St James, then we would be dropped off at the gardens and the rest would be taken to the caves. NONE of this was true. We passed Pedro St James. We passed the Botanic Gardens. The first stop was the caves. We wasted 15 minutes there because there had been miscommunication from Cay about the number of people visiting the caves and the number of guides needed. When we finally got to the gardens, we were running over an hour late. Instead of an hour, we had 30 minutes. I barely had time to see a few flowers and a quick look at the iguanas and that was it. We got to Pedro St James and it was another mess. There was confusion about seeing the intro film because a large bus had arrived. And there was only one guide and he was supposed to take the bus group. Our guide/driver stood around, clueless, and another person on the tour asked if we could just go look at the house. So we did. Half hour, not a full hour. No intro film. I don't know if I'll get back to Grand Cayman. I'm disappointed and sad that my chance to see the gardens was so rushed. What could have been a pleasant time was a stress-filled mess.