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Glad you enjoyed it! This is our regular winter vacation. We’ve been there every winter since 2012 plus a few other trips. We always stay in the Falice Suite so we can get a full kitchen and a separate bedroom, so my wife can sleep in if she wants while I cook myself breakfast. Good...

For dessert, get flan. We judge restaurants largely on the quality of the flan. Casa Denis has really good flan, but sometimes they run out. Sometimes we have dinner somewhere else and got to Casa Denis just to get the flan. Los Otates has good flan. Ask when you sit down so they save you one...

If I go to El Pique and stuff myself, which means guacamole shared with the table, frijoles charros especial, three tacos, and a beer, it’s ten bucks or less. I’ve walked out of there fat, dumb, and happy for seven bucks when I’ve skipped the frijoles charros. Los Otates is a similar price range...

I’ve never changed pesos for dollars. I visit often enough to keep them for the next trip. It helps that I rarely have more than a few hundred pesos left. I know you can change at the airports, but you’ll get hit for a fee and not get a good rate. I think 2000 pesos is probably on the light...

Credit card use depends on the term of your card. Like ReefHound, I find they work well. Mine don’t have international transaction fees and the exchange rate is better. But Aldora gives a cash discount, so I pay cash there. Many restaurants only take cash and pesos are best at those places. Hard...

There are sometimes incidents in Cozumel, but there don’t seem to be any more than any other destination. The “Open Water” type of incident seems to be particularly rare, because there are so many boats on the water. If a diver surfaces away from the group, another boat will pick the diver up or...

Well, this isn’t one of those “everybody gets a trophy” things, but it looks like they’ve used both “Obscura” and “Oscura” - maybe at different times. I think I’ve seen both over the years and a Google search shows images of bottles with both labels. If I’m not mistaken, the darker beer is now...

It might be 150 dollars to dive Cozumel with a Playa dive operator, but the most expensive I have seen on Cozumel is 95 dollars for a two-tank dive. There are several operators there that can get you long dive times (Aldora, Living Underwater, Tres Pelicanos, Blue XT-Sea, and Liquid Blue). But...

Congrats! The Eber Ward is a great dive for number 200. Did you use a charter? If so, which one? My usual Straits charter has not been running lately.

Rent a car and see some of the island, maybe the botanic garden (Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park). We did this about 10 years ago and I think we had a longer layover. Airport conditions may have changed, but it was pretty easy then.

I’m not on the island often enough to say for sure, but there are usually hunters on the boat when I’ve been there. We’ve been around the southern end of the island to Islote my last couple of trips (March 2019 and July 2018). Don’t really know if the local fishermen are over there. I would...

Not as many as you might think. More than the west side, but not nearly as many as a few years ago.

Anse Chastenet was my first thought also, with the same caveat on budget. I wouldn’t honeymoon at many places I like to dive, and Anse Chastenet is one of only a very few places that strikes me as a great honeymoon spot where it is also worthwhile to dive.

First, I said my plan was a couple of years old and the plans change all the time. Second, I just checked AT&T plans and don’t see the plans you mentioned. Maybe they have different plans in Texas. I bought the last few phones outright. I knew that may plan was not paying them off. It was pretty...

Like so many things, it all depends. You have to ask yourself what you want out of your service, what you are willing to pay for, and what you are not willing to pay for. The AT&T plan I have had for the last couple of years covers Mexico with the same plan I have in the US. I wanted more data...

I have enjoyed CasaTomas, on Av. 5, between Calle 1 and Calle 3. Good Spanish food and a really nice garden setting. I have been there three times. I tried Sal de Mar and really wanted to like it, but I found it disappointing. Not bad, just disappointing and a little too expensive. Kondesa is...

Aldora picks up downtown at a pier known as the Aldora pier. Aldora doesn’t own it (not anymore, anyway) and other operators use it, too. It’s a very short walk from where you are staying. Aldora is a valet op and will take care of your gear other than your wetsuit. I haven’t been diving with...

Temps between 79 and 81.

I’m diving in Cozumel this week. This time of year, I normally use a 5 mil back-zip suit with a 1 mil shirt and Sharkskin hooded vest (3 mil equivalent). I mistakenly grabbed my 3 mil suit when I packed instead of the 5 mil and was a little cold from the minute I hit the water. It’s gotten a...

I have noticed Delta fares out of Detroit have been getting more expensive. I was looking at some dates for this summer and it did look like Saturdays might be the only days available. We only get Saturday non-stops from Detroit in the winter, but this did look like they were cutting back on the...