. If you wanted or needed to eat somewhere else, where there many options in easy walking distance? I ask since not everyone rents a car.
Any bars or local restaurants in the area outside of the hotel?
The Coral Princess is in a smaller cluster of hotels about 1 ½ - 2 miles south of the farthest hotels in the north zone. There are some resort restaurants and a beach bar that can be walked to farther north. In the CP area, there was only 1 other hotel restaurant easily walkable. Two good beach bar/restaurants - Hemingway's and La Monina - were more of a 20-25 minute walk or 3 minute taxi ride. Taxi rides into town from the CP were $5 for 4 of us and $5 back to CP. We paid for one-way and our friends paid for the other.
You mentioned you look forward to staying at Coral Princess Resort again; think that'll be your new 'go to' on Cozumel, or just one of them?
Because we generally travel by way of our timeshare, I would say CP will be one of our go to's. We're willing to try new places, but the CP is on the water, so that's a plus for us.
I imagine a concern of people considering the northern hotel zone is that boat rides to the marine park dive sites will be onerously long. Glad to hear that wasn't the case.
Knowing what I now know, if I stayed anywhere in the north hotel zone, I would get to CP and dive with Pepe Scuba. I never would have believed "fast" boats are that much faster than the other boat types until I experienced it. We got to sights as fast, if not faster, as I did when I dove with the 2 ops south of San Miguel.
I recommend eating at Buccano's. It is very high end for Cozumel and a bit pricey, but it is well worth it, IMO.
Had it in my sights, but was closed on the day we thought about going. A group of divers I went out with one day were all going there one evening and they talked highly of it.
How was the food on the Pirate Dinner Cruise?
Our 2nd time doing this. We had the surf & turf, lobster/steak. Lobster was very good and steak was okay. Typical party boat otherwise.
It depends on the body in that shorty.
It takes what it takes for some
In the past, 14# in a shorty has been normal for me and 14-18# in a 3mm full. I think my new computer was too buoyant!! Ha ha. I knew after a few dives I could drop weight but was okay putting a couple of puffs of air in my BC after I went down. With all of my weight at the waist (integrated pockets) I never felt out of balance, too heavy/too light, or that I couldn't stay horizontal or control my depth going through swim throughs or on safety stops. Didn't want to experiment with weight since I was seeing new divers on the boat most days.
