Important gear for Coz?

[Christi]

Accross from the Plaza La Glorias is what has been refered to as the Cozumel Walmart. You can get anything basic you forget or that is to heavy to carry and at good prices.
Last year i bought shaving cream, razor and some 3.99 red wine that I liked enough to bring a few bottles home and enjoy. Supper cheap to. Much cheaper than at my hotel.

I know visitors to the island often think that Chedraui is the coolest thing since sliced bread. However, it is very inconsistent, so don't always count on it to buy things you've forgotten. You'd be surprised at some of the things you would expct to find there that they do not have or the things they run out of for weeks at a time.

Also, some of the basic things you mention may cost you significantly more at Chedraui or on the island in general. For example:
shaving cream...$7 a can
hair dryers...$25 to $40 for a very basic one (Chedraui doesn't even sell them, you have to go to a specialty store)
4-pack of AA...$5 to $6

Chedraui is getting better, but FAR from Walmart and I still miss American grocery stores for the consistency, selection and cleanliness more than anything else.

Anyway, have a great vacation!

 

[HammerNoMore]

Chedraui is getting better, but FAR from Walmart and I still miss American grocery stores for the consistency, selection and cleanliness more than anything else.

You've never lived in St. Louis. I can't remember the last time I was able to go to one grocery store to satisfy my weekly shopping list. I'm not talking about specialty items, I'm talking staples. Last week I was told apple cider is a "seasonal item". I have to go to a specialty store to find fresh grapefruit juice...

 

[cxg31s]

I'll refrain from further responses to your posts

Sounds good to me!

 

[Christi]

You've never lived in St. Louis. I can't remember the last time I was able to go to one grocery store to satisfy my weekly shopping list. I'm not talking about specialty items, I'm talking staples. Last week I was told apple cider is a "seasonal item". I have to go to a specialty store to find fresh grapefruit juice...

I don't think you could pay me enough to live in St. Louis...ever!

 

[crispos]

Careful Christi, you could get banned for discrediting St. Louis. How ya doing, anyway?

 

[ggunn]

I use as luggage a rolling Igloo cooler. In addition to the obvious advantage of wheels, it's long enough to hold my fins, it's rigid enough for packed fragile items, it serves as a keeper of iced cervesas in my room, and when we are fortunate at fishing it provides transport for frozen dorado (25 pounds of it last year) back home. It also gets me through US Customs quickly; I answer "yes" to the question about bringing meat back from Mexico, so they send me through the (usually vacant) agricultural line.

 

[Christi]

Careful Christi, you could get banned for discrediting St. Louis. How ya doing, anyway?

no offense...for me, there's just no appeal to St. Louis. I could say that for many places...it was meant more as a joke to James regarding the grocery store issue. Nothing more.

 

[HammerNoMore]

I don't think you could pay me enough to live in St. Louis...ever!

It took the love of a wonderful woman to get me here...and even given that I'm still trying to escape.....

 

[HaoleDiver]

So to go back to my original question, anything non alcoholic, unusual little things? Anything for diving? I'm not going down there to drink, if I had any desire to do that, I could save a few grand and do it here.
I have batteries, plenty, for all my electronic gear (plenty of AAs for the Cd player and gameboy as well).

 

[ggunn]

So to go back to my original question, anything non alcoholic, unusual little things? Anything for diving? I'm not going down there to drink, if I had any desire to do that, I could save a few grand and do it here.
I have batteries, plenty, for all my electronic gear (plenty of AAs for the Cd player and gameboy as well).

Small can of WD-40
Adolf's meat tenderizer
Fast setting JB Weld (JB Quick)
Bright keychain LED (for flagging taxis at night)
Keychain beer opener (I know, you don't drink...) ;^)
Bullfrog sunscreen
Insulated glass