Our first
disney cruise was the western. Because we had never been to any of those ports, we read up on what the ports had to offer, asked questions on these boards and made our own plan. we had a blast.
In Key West, you can rent a golf cart to get around or take the trolley, or walk. Golf cart or trolley are best options. There is a ton to do within walking distance.
In Cozumel, we grabbed a cab at the taxi stand right up the dock, went straight to Mr. Sancho's for lunch and beach time. It was fantastic. The food/service, the beach is beautiful. Really clean restrooms and shower areas. My hubby still talks about it and can't wait to go back there. Then we grabbed a cab back to the dock area..we had them drop us at the forum shops so we could walk our way back, doing shopping along the way. Upstairs in the forum shops is a great cigar shop and a nice play to enjoy a mojito. So we did that, visited with the locals a bit. Went downstairs to the Diamonds international store (if they still do it, this is the shop where you get the free diamond earrings and tanzanite earrings..check with the shopping desk on the ship and watch the navigator). I did not know about these free earrings..lol, we were just looking around, they asked what ship we were on, etc. We were about to go, when one of the salesmen said..wait..you didn't get your free earrings..I said what..oh, that's ok..I forgot to get the coupon for them. He said, that's ok..you can have them anyway..well, he and hubby started talking, I went looking over in the other side of the store..lol, and found myself a pair of pink sapphire and diamond earrings..lol. Negotiated a great price, and love them to this day.
we shopped our way back to the ship..took our packages back on, freshened up and came back out to check out a couple more places. They have a cute little, oh, like town square area, the gets going towards the evening. Walked around, checked out senor frogs, and then went to carlos and charlies for dinner. The food and service was wonderful, the place is a blast.
In Grand Cayman, it is very easy to get off the ship, go to the taxi dispatch station and grab an island tour. It is a two hour tour, takes you to tutle farm, hell, past the first gingerbread house, some of the neighborhoods. Gives you plenty of time to hold and pet the turtles, take pictures, they have a cute little souvenier shop there. It is also a good place to buy postcards and stamps to send back home...mailbox is right out front. One of the rum cake factories is right next door, so you can taste and purchase the cakes also. They are the best. (Tortuga rum cakes). They also make delicious rum, which you can taste in most of the liqour stores and rum cake factories. In hell, you can mail postcards back home, it will have the postmark hell. There is a post office right there. The driver will offer to drop anyone at the beach who wants to go..nobody wanted to from our group, but we did want to stop by one and take pics..so he stopped by a small beach where we could get great photos of the magic right across the way.
After that it was time for lunch...we stopped at Rackhams for the locally brewed stingray beer (it is quite good). They also have a wonderful souvenier shop there, and a wonderful menu. The bar is oceanside, up a bit, easy walking distance. Then we worked our way back, there is a microbrew pub (which also serves food), so we stopped there. They also have some really excellent tshirts, can't remember the name of it for the life of me, the beers are fantastic..there are five of them to try, and the fresh grilled food is wonderful.
After that we finished up shopping, took pictures with some of the pirate statues standing around the town, went to hardrock cafe, in general just had a great time.
Enjoy!
On Grand Caymen, we are going on the Jolly Roger Pirate cruise. 2 Hr sail & snorkling. Rum punch included. It costs $35 adults & $25 kids. It is a wooden sail boat replica of the Nina. We will post after 4/9/05 cruise for a opinion. 
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