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I doubt that you’ll find ANY dive op on Cozumel that doesn’t pay close attention to diver safety. But that doesn’t mean that they will baby sit you. If you are concerned about that, let the DM know on the boat, then on the dive, make sure you stay BEHIND the DM, close enough to signal him if...

For what it’s worth, I’ve never done Scubaclub, and I avoid all AI places on Cozumel because I love good food and Cozumel has a real wealth of very good restaurants, in all budget categories, too many favorites of mine to even hit in a one week stay. When I travel cheap, I spend my money on...

Just FYI, I just checked Dive with Martin’s website and it is quoting a 4-day package of 2 tank dive trips for $265.00 ADD $2.00 per day for Marine Park Fee, and you can add a night dive for $35.00. So, for 4-days of 2-tank dive trips PLUS one single tank night dive, including Marine Park Fee...

AND you will better target your post if you title it “Looking for a roommate”.

Boy, and I thought I traveled cheap! Seriously, $500-$600 (per person, I assume) is really, really low for 5 nights in Cozumel - and Cozumel is probably one of the cheapest dive destinations in the Caribbean. That’s not to say it can’t be done, but it will be really tough. Start with the...

Personally, I’m very glad that I went once. But if they are going to require a life vest and no diving down to see the whale sharks, I doubt very much whether I’d ever do it again.

Think of all the liquor retailers and distributors that would suffer greatly if there weren’t floating palaces dumping hordes of alcoholics-in-training in Cozumel 6 days a week. Besides, who else but a cruise ship passenger is going to be stupid enough to buy expensive jewelry from Diamonds...

Well, some of us weren’t born with gills, that’s why.

Copied from a post on an earlier thread: Personally, I LOVE drift diving in Cozumel. It is the easiest, most relaxing, least physically exerting diving you’ll ever do. AND since I’m following a DM for the whole dive, and the boat is going to pick me up when I surface, I don’t have to worry...

Let’s see; there’s a post which annoys you. You don’t HAVE to read it, so you could ignore it. Or you could rant. You choose to rant. Personally, I might have gone the other way.

That’s absolutely true right now. With orbital procession, it will be the other way around in several thousand years. But I probably won’t be here to see that.

I don’t mind coming to Coz in July, though for me a July stay means that access to a REAL swimming pool is an absolute necessity. That means that Casa Mexicana, Suites Bahia and Suites Colonial, places I would very gladly book for a December or January stay, are crossed off my list of...

For summer stays, when access to a swimming pool is important to me (I get very hot and sweaty in that July humidity!), I like either Casa Del Mar (which does not include a fridge in the room and is a long hike from downtown, but more convenient for dive pickups - most ops will pick up at the...

Whether a taxi driver view dollars as a benefit or a burden depends upon a lot of factors, some determined by the legal treatment of the currency, some depending on the individual taxi driver’s spending habits. On the legal front, it is my understanding that the Mexican government imposes a tax...

I have discovered that a lot of things, like milk, half & half, cheese, eggs, and produce, as well as some meats (especially chicken and pork) are a lot cheaper at Aldi’s (and the quality of the produce is better than Walmarts, though I still won’t buy beef at Aldi’s). Aldi’s doesn’t provide...

I personally think that Southwest is much more likely to expand service to Cancun than to go into Cozumel. Southwest is already getting some Cozumel traffic through Cancun in the bag drag crowd, so starting service to Cozumel would just cannibalize that part of its Cancun traffic, which is a...

Hey, it costs them both time and money to exchange the dollars they get for pesos. If you don’t like the exchange rate, you don’t have to use taxis as your cambio - just exchange your dollars somewhere that offers a better exchange rate - like a bank - and pay your taxi driver in pesos...

Yeah, I really miss the old days, before 9/11, when I could just show up at DFW with my bags packed and no reservations hoping to snag a cheap 3-day weekend in Coz by grabbing one of the unsold seats on a Funjets or Worry Free Vacations charter. I once got a $99 round trip DFW to Coz just by...

If politicians could be jailed for lying to voters, we’d quickly run out of cell space.

Just a couple of places where you might start looking. First, a friend of mine who is now a freelance DM on Coz, Miguel Estrella, who you can email at estrellamiguel6@gmail.com. Miguel was a Dive Master with Dive with Martin for many years, and I’ve been diving with him a number of times - I...