Cancun Dive company recommendation

[heehee62]

Any recommendations for a good dive company that will pick up from the Cancun Hotel Zone.? The dive instructor MUST speak really good English cause my traveling companions English is just ok.

Please no PMs, I prefer just looking at posts so others can read them in the future too.

My traveling companions have decided to get their PADI licenses too. They were hoping to do the book part online and then the pool and open water parts in Mexico. I was going to go with Scorpio Divers but they don't seem to be responding to my emails.

Also, do you think they could do their last open water cert. day at Ponderosa cenote while others did the actual cenote?

 

[alwaysdiving]

Hello heehee62, my name is Alvaro Gonzalez, I´m an scuba diving instructor, I´ve been teaching scuba diving and conducting groups of divers in this area of Mexico for over 32 years, I run AlwaysDiving which is located at Embarcadero Caribbean Carnival at the hotel zone of Cancun.
Definetely the option for divers and snorkelers in the same trip is "Dos ojos" cenote, we do this tour once at the week, transportation, lunch and drinks are included, we will more than gladd to take care of you and your family.
I really believe in make friends not costumers, so contact me I warantee full satisfaction.
I love what I do!!!
Alvaro.

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And I do speak perfect english, spanish and portuguese, so we are going to understand each other very well​

 

[JP77]

I just spent 3 days diving here in Cancun. I dove with Scuba Cancun. I can say that I was seriously disappointed with this shop. The shop dates from 1980 and the gear looks like it. The regulators are all beat up and dirty. On my second day, I went through 4 regulators before I found one that didn't leak. Then on our first dive the regulator was leaking as I inhaled, so I got some sea water. I swapped out to the octopus. On the third day they gave me a regulator that had green corrosion inside. I was aghast at it's condition. The BC's have seen better days and many are patched. Their masks are all the same, one size fits all and uncomfortable. Their fins are slip on kind, and most are worn out. Our first 2 days the crew and guides were fantastic. Good people Katie and Lars. The last day I got Ricardo, and our group of three all were advanced and Ricardo cut our dives short. He kept us at 40 minutes and we all had 900+ psi still. We complained and he gave us a BS story about nitrogen loading and DCS. We all had computers and were all fine. Another issue was the surface interval times, which were kept at 30-40 minutes. Don't expect any drinks or fruit on the boat, only water from the cooler is available. There are no rest rooms on any of their boats, guys are OK to hang it out but ladies are out of luck. If you're going to use Scuba Cancun, bring your own gear as I wish I had. It wasn't economical or convenient for me this trip making 3 stops and traveling literately around the world from the Mid East. You expect more from an operator, and this was the worst dive shop I've seen yet. Over the 3 days I hit two spots twice (horseshoe and puerta neigra). If I were you stay away from this operator.

 

[B_D]

Keep trying to reach Scorpio - they're outstanding and speak perfect english. I believe they will pick up at your hotel also.

 

[TeamLeaming]

We would like to give a plug for Alvaro with Always Diving...
Alvaro is a highly experienced diver who also happens to be a great guy. He is detail oriented and naturally goes the extra mile to make sure everything is just right. Alvaro took us to the Palancar reef where my wife completed her open water certification. I am an experienced diver and Alvaro was able to keep all of our dives quite interesting, and safe. In spite of Alvaro's excellent technical ability and knowledge I want to give him special consideration for helping my wife work through a bit of dive anxiety. I highly recommend him to any level diver. As Alvaro said at some point during our trip, "you come to Mexico for a vacation, and wind up making friends". This is certainly true with Alvaro and we can't wait to team up with him for our next dive.

Max and Jean