Beach Club Question

[IndyDan]

A friend spending a day on Coz next week asked me to recommend a beach club. I've been to several on surface intervals, but I can't remember any one standing out as the best. Can anyone help me out? He really just wants decent snorkeling and cold drinks. I thought Playa San Francisco was pretty nice, but the rest kind of blur together.
Thanks,
Dan

 

[Rondo]

For snorkeling Dzul-Ha is the best,nothing fancy small grill and bar.

 

[parrotheaddiver]

A friend spending a day on Coz next week asked me to recommend a beach club. I've been to several on surface intervals, but I can't remember any one standing out as the best. Can anyone help me out? He really just wants decent snorkeling and cold drinks. I thought Playa San Francisco was pretty nice, but the rest kind of blur together.
Thanks,
Dan

Here is a list of the beach clubs on Coz...
http://www.cozumelmycozumel.com/Pages/BeachClubs.htm

 

[diveborg]

For snorkeling Dzul-Ha is the best,nothing fancy small grill and bar.

I agree about the quality of snorkeling at Dzul Ha, but I don't think it is a "beach club" in the sense that most people think that a beach is where the sand extends out into the water. Dzul Ha, IMHO is not a beach.

Sandy beaches and good snorkeling are mutually exclusive for the most part.

For nice sandy beachs, most of the clubs along Playa San Francisco are pretty good. Each one offers a little big different experience. Some have big water toys and they tend to attract families with kids and young active adults. Others don't have the water toys and are more attractive to adults that want to avoid children.

 

[Sirto]

A friend spending a day on Coz next week asked me to recommend a beach club. I've been to several on surface intervals, but I can't remember any one standing out as the best. Can anyone help me out? He really just wants decent snorkeling and cold drinks. I thought Playa San Francisco was pretty nice, but the rest kind of blur together.
Thanks,
Dan

For pretty nice snorkelling, a nice sandy (albeit small) beach and amenities (ie bar, food and restrooms) I like Playa Corona.

Ed

 

[HammerNoMore]

For pretty nice snorkelling, a nice sandy (albeit small) beach and amenities (ie bar, food and restrooms) I like Playa Corona.

Ed

Is this the little bar on the cutoff road between the highway and the beach road? If so I have to a gree. Wouldn't call it a beach club but it fits the bill. I'd also recomend the east side, though the only place there where snorkling is advisable is Chen Rio.

James

 

[divematt]

I agree about the quality of snorkeling at Dzul Ha, but I don't think it is a "beach club" in the sense that most people think that a beach is where the sand extends out into the water. Dzul Ha, IMHO is not a beach.

Sandy beaches and good snorkeling are mutually exclusive for the most part.

For nice sandy beachs, most of the clubs along Playa San Francisco are pretty good. Each one offers a little big different experience. Some have big water toys and they tend to attract families with kids and young active adults. Others don't have the water toys and are more attractive to adults that want to avoid children.

Which ones are a bit more quiet, have few children, and I could care less about snorkelling as I'm in between dives?

 

[diveborg]

Which ones are a bit more quiet, have few children, and I could care less about snorkelling as I'm in between dives?

I've been to Playa Palancar and it was a nice quite beach club. It is the last club to the south on the West side. It is close to the Palancar reef system. Mmmm good fish tacos. Because it is the farthest from town and the cruise docks, you find few if any cruisers there.

I have read that Palm Beach is most suited to adults and has wonderful food, but I don't have first hand experience there. I think it is just to the north of San Francisco beach club.

Nachi Cocom is also more adult oriented, but it sells an all inclusive package aimed at cruisers, so I don't know how attractive that is. I though it was OK when we stopped there for a S.I., but that was before the AI package was offered.

Choosing between Nachi Cocom and Playa Palancar would be easy for me, Playa Palancar wins. It also is the usually stop for Liquid Blue for their surface interval, as well as other dive OP's.

 

[ggunn]

Is this the little bar on the cutoff road between the highway and the beach road? If so I have to a gree. Wouldn't call it a beach club but it fits the bill. I'd also recomend the east side, though the only place there where snorkling is advisable is Chen Rio.

James

No, Playa Corona is on the water, and it's just south of the southern extent of Chankanaab. I'm not sure exactly how to get there over land since they built the new road, but I'm pretty sure that the old road still goes to it. It should be the next thing you see on your right past the gate to Chankanaab on the old road. There may be a cutoff road there between the new and old roads, I dunno, but it is between the old road and the water.

 

[HammerNoMore]

No, Playa Corona is on the water, and it's just south of the southern extent of Chankanaab. I'm not sure exactly how to get there over land since they built the new road, but I'm pretty sure that the old road still goes to it. It should be the next thing you see on your right past the gate to Chankanaab on the old road. There may be a cutoff road there between the new and old roads, I dunno, but it is between the old road and the water.

The place I'm thinking of is on the water too. There is a road that runs between the new and old road right next to it. It has a pier and some of the dive shops stop there between dives. There are always people snorkeling there.

James