Just back from a week at the Cabo Pulmo Beach Resort. I'll give the usual info, but also need to get into a few specifics. 1 1/2 hour ride from airport to resort over mostly paved, some parts washed out, and a bit of bumpy road. Helpful arrangements from staff to get us to our cottages in the dark.
Resort Accommodations: Nice deluxe cottages, very spacious, easy walk to restaurant, NO Lights at night, so bring a flashlight to walk back and forth from cottage to restaurant/bar. Amazing stars!!
Restaurant: We were on the all-inclusive, so breakfast is buffet, you order lunch from the menu at breakfast and dinner form the menu at lunch...that may have been because were 10 people. The lunch and dinner food is very good though breakfast buffet was average. Restaurant staff were terrific. Very accommodating for the vegetarians in the group.
Dive Center and Diving: Great boat captain and guide. We switched boats for a few days to dive with others in the group.. Gato and Jose were very good boat captains and Marco and Claudio were wonderful guides. We did 2 boat dives in the morning and two in the afternoon. You stay on the boat for the surface interval. Small boats, 6 maximum divers. Seeing the HUGE schools of jacks was an incredible experience. They can blot out the sun and their merging patterns are mesmerizing. Bull sharks on the wreck. Saw a school of mobula rays which was wonderful. Due to conditions, the north sights were the "good" ones. 50 ft viz and mild to mild+ currents. Southern sights, 15 to 20 ft viz and greenish water. Still some interesting dives but not great. Park regulations can close sights leaving just the bad ones available, but what is "bad" changes by day and by season. A week on just 8-10 sites if some are closed can be a bit repetitive, but it seemed all worth it.
Two specifics: 1. Due to the boat size, it is a bit hard to get up on the edge and back roll for us 60+ folks who are less than 6 feet tall. We all figured it out, but in another few years that won't be so easy. Also, getting back in the boat is interesting and hard when swells are 4 feet +. First, you hand up your camera, then each weight pocket, then your BC. You float away from the boat with mask and fins on while each person does this. While you are floating, the crew changes tanks. It is too small of a space for us to be on the boat while they change over tanks. Fine in calm water, harder in swells.
2. Four cottages in our group had money stolen on the one day that was cleaning day. Some had the cottages locked, some not, some had no safes, some had safes, but they did not work. What was stolen was usually half of the cash that was found. Nothing else. Our group embers lost between $145 to $700 per cottage. What was depressing was that the manager and the owner never said one word to us afterwards. They said something to our trip leader but never addressed our group even though they saw us together at meals for days after the theft. Just cowards and quite inexcusable behavior from those two.
So, keep you cottage locked and make sure you have a safe and that it works!!
Very good staff, except at the top, very good food and accommodations (except being robbed) and very good diving when conditions and regulations permit.
Rob
Resort Accommodations: Nice deluxe cottages, very spacious, easy walk to restaurant, NO Lights at night, so bring a flashlight to walk back and forth from cottage to restaurant/bar. Amazing stars!!
Restaurant: We were on the all-inclusive, so breakfast is buffet, you order lunch from the menu at breakfast and dinner form the menu at lunch...that may have been because were 10 people. The lunch and dinner food is very good though breakfast buffet was average. Restaurant staff were terrific. Very accommodating for the vegetarians in the group.
Dive Center and Diving: Great boat captain and guide. We switched boats for a few days to dive with others in the group.. Gato and Jose were very good boat captains and Marco and Claudio were wonderful guides. We did 2 boat dives in the morning and two in the afternoon. You stay on the boat for the surface interval. Small boats, 6 maximum divers. Seeing the HUGE schools of jacks was an incredible experience. They can blot out the sun and their merging patterns are mesmerizing. Bull sharks on the wreck. Saw a school of mobula rays which was wonderful. Due to conditions, the north sights were the "good" ones. 50 ft viz and mild to mild+ currents. Southern sights, 15 to 20 ft viz and greenish water. Still some interesting dives but not great. Park regulations can close sights leaving just the bad ones available, but what is "bad" changes by day and by season. A week on just 8-10 sites if some are closed can be a bit repetitive, but it seemed all worth it.
Two specifics: 1. Due to the boat size, it is a bit hard to get up on the edge and back roll for us 60+ folks who are less than 6 feet tall. We all figured it out, but in another few years that won't be so easy. Also, getting back in the boat is interesting and hard when swells are 4 feet +. First, you hand up your camera, then each weight pocket, then your BC. You float away from the boat with mask and fins on while each person does this. While you are floating, the crew changes tanks. It is too small of a space for us to be on the boat while they change over tanks. Fine in calm water, harder in swells.
2. Four cottages in our group had money stolen on the one day that was cleaning day. Some had the cottages locked, some not, some had no safes, some had safes, but they did not work. What was stolen was usually half of the cash that was found. Nothing else. Our group embers lost between $145 to $700 per cottage. What was depressing was that the manager and the owner never said one word to us afterwards. They said something to our trip leader but never addressed our group even though they saw us together at meals for days after the theft. Just cowards and quite inexcusable behavior from those two.
So, keep you cottage locked and make sure you have a safe and that it works!!
Very good staff, except at the top, very good food and accommodations (except being robbed) and very good diving when conditions and regulations permit.
Rob
Men have different parameters. Passports don't do so well in the cans though, as they have to be slightly bent to fit in. Now I use some clothing and am also working on making my own hollowed out book. One tip I can share - the first day I make a point of meeting my camarista, exchanging names and leaving small daily tips. I appreciate the care these ladies give me and more often than not we hug at the end of my stay. I've never been robbed.
