This year will be our 3rd time at the Iberostar. The food is good, though gets a little tedious in the 2nd week. The beds are typical of Coz, a little on the hard side. You can request a mattress foam pad from the front desk which helps. The rooms are quaint with their hammock on the front porch. The resort as a whole is very well groomed, and the cleaning staff does a very good job. The room fridge is well stocked every day. We did hear that they were hasseling the off site dive ops, but Cristi has assured us that, in her case, it has been settled. I have to say, that I was a little put off last year by the " guard" on the dock insisting that I not snorkel or swim past the white bouyed area. Understandably, they are conserned with law suits possibly stemming from boat/swimmer accidents. But, to be quite honest, I never did go out far past the bouys, for it to become a hazzard to my health, not to mention, timing it so the boats had just left. Not likely to return before the hour at least.
Be that as it may, we will be returning at the end of January of 2005 and diving with Cristy. We are looking forward to some top notch diving with her and her crew. We have previously dived with Dressel ( the on site for the Iberostar)and yes, they are a bit of a cattle boat op. We dived with Dive with Martin and had a wonderful experience with them and last year we tried Papa Hogs. They also were very good, but tended to stick to the "45 min down , out of air or not" therey. I have to say, I resented coming topside with 1300 still in the tank.
So, there are my thoughts on the Iberostar and dive ops that I am familiar with. Hope it helps somewhat. I didn't want to elaborate in too much detail here. If you wish more detail just pm me.
Cindy
