Cenote Xperience, Playa Del Carmen, great Cenote guide!

[FairyBasset]

I recently dived Chac Mool, Dos Ojos, the Pit and Angelita with Cenote Experience.
Nico is a fantastic, knowledgeable, safety conscious, friendly and calm guide.
He speaks perfect English and has a great way to communicate with people.


He is happy to pick you up at various locations in PDC or Tulum, depending on your hotel or the Cenote.
He has a good truck, with good equipment, clean air in the tanks etc.
He also provides a nice sandwich for lunch and drinks.


Nico prepares you well for each dive, with a clear briefing about the location as well as safety issues and procedures.
He can quickly understand your level and confidence. He adapts the dive to your needs - always the sign of a great guide!
He keeps the groups small, so you feel you are getting a personal guide.


The cenotes themselves are stunning places to dive. The Pit and Angelita are deep dives with haloclines and sulphur clouds, which make them unusual and interesting.
Even at 35m depth, it is absolutely dark under the sulphur cloud, but you can still see a huge distance in your torch beam. This is totally unlike other night or limited viz dives.

Chac Mool and Dos Ojos have amazing stalactites and stalagmites. My photos look like they were taken above water, because the water there is as clear as air! It's easy to forget you are diving.


Water temperatures remain around 25 Centigrade all year, so a 3mm - 5mm suit is needed. I would recommend a hood too.
The cenotes make an amazing change to ocean diving. You will never see such clear water anywhere else. You can always dive with fish, but these cave and tunnel systems are so unusual, millions of years old and totally stunning.
Personally I like to challenge my diving skills regularly. The cenotes were new, exciting and an amazing experience for me.



I fell in love with diving the cenotes and want to come back to Yucatan do some more.
I will definitely go again with Cenote Xperience and will recommend it to my friends.
If you go, you will not regret it.

 

[TSandM]

I hope Nico has been through the guide training course, and that he provides all of you with lights, and that he keeps ratios to 1:4 or less. These are all important things.

The cenotes are some of the most magical diving available on the planet, or at least I believe so. The cavern dives are amazingly safe, if the guides follow the rules.

 

[FairyBasset]

Nico is a full cave instructor, not just a guide.
He has been instructing cave diving for many years and guiding in the cenotes for around 7 years, as far as I know.
He knows and follows the rules, as it is his livelihood.

I had all my own equipment with me, including two lamps.
One day another diver was with us and Nico provided all his equipment, including lights.

I am aware there are some guides who do not follow the guidelines for cavern diving.
For that reason, I suggest researching your choice of guides thoroughly before making your choice.

I was recommended to use Nico and Cenote Experince here on ScubaBoard, by people who had dived with him regularly over several years.
I was recommended other guides too.
I chose Nico, as he was a great and fast communicator, he made the best arrangements for picks-ups etc for me, had good prices and made it easy for me to pay him via PayPal.
Once I had dived the first day with him, I booked all my other dives with him too as I simply liked him a lot and had a great time. As did the other diver who came with us.