You should have done a poll maybe? Those 5 are the only ones you want to chose from, based on time-share trading...?
Food there sucks. There last Oct. Do a cozumel hotel search at
www.calibex.com I found great deals there on hotels.
I don't know that our input will help him if he's limited to using those 5 time-share trades? I see great offers on some hotels and wonder about the AI option, but seldom hear good about them. I criticized the two AIs I tried before giving up on that, but I wonder what it is about them - just too much of the same day after day? I remember one of them serving air temp food with flies at the outdoor buffet and for the indoor buffet - when I couldn't find a waiter once and went back in the kitchen, it didn't look like they cooked on site? That's been years tho so not going to mention the name.
Interesting link. No dates were mentioned so I used the default date that site gave of May 24-26 and it quotes $101 for El Cid at one booking site. When I try to move the Price slide bar minimum to $70, if only gives me options of $50 or $100 minimum
if I did that right? I'm more accustomed to searching on Sidestep.com which you might compare. Instead of listing the same property several different times at different booking sites with respective prices like your Nextag site, SS will list it once with a pull down on the various sites and prices. The results are pretty similar on hotels south of town from $50-100 other than El Cid, which Sidestep found for $81. SS will give you more control over minimum & maximum prices on the slide bar and not list the same hotel 5 different time with various prices.
Two problems with SS: it will include Playa del Carmen hotels and others within 100 miles unless you check "Cozumel only" and their info on map and distance is very wrong on several - like putting Villa Blana 36 miles east of town in the ocean. :shocked2: I have exchanges a few emails with them about that this week, but if you know where the hotels are, it's a hell of a search engine. Oh, I see that yours includes some PDC hotels too; I wonder how often Coz newbies book hotels on these sites only to learn that they have to take the ferry to Coz?
Check with the dive shop as soon as you get there and book your dives because the boat would fill up at times. If that happens check with Dive with Martin, they usually have room for last minute divers. I think that Martin has 5 boats. Babieca has only one if I am not mistaken.
I've wondered about booking the diving? I like to reserve my boat spaces in advance. With a small house Op like that one, I wonder if you could?
