I just got back from Grand Cayman and thought I would post my findings for others who may follow.
Was told by rfenst to look for the shops in the pink mall and under the Ritz the bridge to the beach.
So first stop was lunch at the Ritz followed by trying to find that dang bridge to the beach. The beach was pretty much right there. No real need for a bridge to get to it. There was a bridge over the street but I talked to the people who worked there and they did not know of any cigar shop in their midsts.
So we then headed down to the pink shops which is called West Bay Mall or something like that and found the cigar shop in the parking lot. We asked about the other shop and was told they did not open until 3:00. The selection in there was pretty sparse but not too bad. Punch, Partagas, Cohiba, Montecristo, Hoyo de Monterrey ... but there prices were obscene. The cheapest were the Bolivar tubos. At about $12 each my friend loaded up on them. The larger sizes I liked were all $30+. A Cohiba Maduro robusto was $60! I bought about a half dozen over priced smokes. Another friend of mine got carried away and spent $400. My experience smoking those over the next 24 hours was that the small Cubao perfecto, I could not keep lit. Hoyo de Monterrey was a bit stingy with the smoke but not bad. Bolivar churchill-ish size was very hard to draw. The rest I saved to stick in the humi for a few weeks and see if they don't improve. I was glad to have brought a small portable humi of my own smokes to enjoy and share with friends. (There were 14 of us on this trip of which 6 were herfers)
On Saturday there were no cruz ships in port so we went downtown. Found LCDH and Wallace was there. He paid no attention to us (2 of us) when we walked in and when I asked if I could look in his humi he sharply demanded that we do not open any of his boxes. There were some magnificent boxes in there to not open. When I came out and started talking cigars with him I think he figured out we were not just a coulple of chumps who were going to waste his time and became very friendly. We spent an hour in there talking with him. He is a wealth of knowledge. Very interesting. Very opinionated but not in a way that seemed as if he was trying to push anything. Got the story of the Cohiba Behike and almost bought a box but was worried about getting them taken away form me at customs coming home. Ended up buying a 10 pack of Cohibas and a handful of Montecristo #2s and a couple of BOlivar short looking torpedos that just looked too good to pass up. His prices were more reasonable. 15 to 30/smoke. He discounted greatly if you bought a box which I will probably do in the future. The Cohibas and Montecristos kept me going the rest of the trip.
We stayed at the Westin and they had a humi behind the bar. And even though there was a hygrometer in there that said 65 they all looked to be really dried out.
Today at Churchills in the airport I bought a box of 42 Opus X Belicoso for $450. At less than $11 each I thought that was a pretty good deal. Also, when going through customs when they asked if I was bringing back tobacco I could answer honestly, yes, and could show them my DR smokes. At customs I did say yes and he never even looked up, just stamped us through. I hope the Ops X's are real. Not that I am an expert on them but they look real. I just smoked one and it tasted great, burned perfect and got a little harsh at the very end which is pretty much how I remember them being when I have smoked them in the past.
