We usually make one trip to Times Square on each of our reaches....normally to buy some t-shirts and towels. We walk by the "duty-free" jewelry places and laugh at anyone that would actually buy something from one of those places, they don't offer any better prices than what you can get at home especially on Tag Hauer and other expensive watches or jewelry. I am usually not a prejudiced person, but when we walk in places like Cool Vibrations and see the Cuban "Czar" behind the counter and the Jamaican "working class" actually working the aisles in the store it makes us want to throw up. I would rather spend my hard-earned tourist dollars with guys on the beach than with these "Cubans" who take all the profits off of the island. Correct me if I am wrong but this is just my impression of the Times Square gift shops and jewelry stores. Doesn't mean I don't spend about $100 there each trip on souveniers for folks in the states that expect that kind of crap from us when we get back.

M&M