jadairiii
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Follow this advise. My own personal experience, I was whipped after Cave 1, I could not have done Full Cave right after. Plus, I was glad for doing cave dives between 1 and full cave.I recommend biting the financial bullet and splitting the training up into two trips with some practice in between. Unless a person has a significant amount of tech diving experience already, going into a "zero to hero" cave training program does not leave most people with the softer ("finer") skills.
As for location, Florida can be great, but it can also blow out due to weather and you end up diving only one cave and Blue Grotto. (my cave 1, done in January in High Springs, Florida had a wet winter and only 2 caves were open, all the others were blown) Mexico, especially in the winter, is a pretty safe bet, and due to how shallow most of the cave are in Mexico you can spend hours training. Florida caves trend a bit deeper so bottom time becomes a "limiter".