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Score a Suite at The Reef Grand Cayman at $79 for 79 Hours

Where: 1 Queens Hwy, Colliers Bay, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

The Reef Resort on Grand Cayman is a proudly "all beachfront" resort that we've praised before for having a decent blog and now we think we're ready to give them credit for having a decent deal, too.

The Beach'in Suite Deal might have a bit of a try-hard name, but the value is there. From 5pm (EDT) this Wednesday, May 13, The Reef is having a 79-hour sale with suites going for $79 a night. That means you have until midnight on Saturday to book, and although "79" seems like a pretty obscure number for them to pick, we're not complaining; regular rates start from $230 a night so it's a huge break.

As far as we can figure, there aren't too many hidden nasties here, although there is a 10% room tax added. You have to pay in full prior to your stay, too, and the cancellation conditions are understandably not too flexible. But the rate is available for stays from now right through December 20, so you've got some time to weigh your options.

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Westin Cayman Island Offering 'Summer Spectacular' for 40 Percent Less

Where: 7 Mile Beach Road, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

The stretch of islands most famous for being a tax haven for banks, big money investors and hedge fundy type transactions has some impressively low resort rates this summer.

Starting June 1 through September 6, 2009, the The Westin Casuarina Resort & Spa Grand Cayman located along eight acres of Seven Mile Beach has slashed prices more than 40 percent for their Summer Spectacular. Nightly rates in the 343-room hotel start at $159 for an Island View room and $259 for an Ocean Front room.

With prices this cheap could Grand Cayman be the new West Palm Beach? Victims of Ponzi schemes may have lost millions but they haven't lost their taste for luxury. Hopefully this means the Westin is also dropping the reported (according to Travelocity readers) extra $20 a day resort fee for beach towels and chairs. But we doubt it.

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"I Got Dumped and All I Got Was This Awesome Caribbean Vacation"

Where: 166 Bodden Town Road, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.

In this episode, Hotel Maven Jenn Merritt ponders a "He's Just Not That Into You" type of getaway. Enjoy.

I was just reading in some magazine some girl's account of how she got dumped by her boyfriend and so she decided it was the perfect time to quit her job and move to the Cayman Islands. While I haven't been dumped (not as of this posting, anyway), I sure would like to go to the Cayman Islands. And if getting dumped is what it takes—well, then… There's always other fish in the sea.

I bet there's plenty of fish off the Caribbean Sea-front property at Turtle Nest Inn in Grand Cayman, and from the looks of it, there's more fish than people at this small, eight-apartment resort, which is exactly the sort of thing you need once you've been dumped.

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