Secrets Pier Fee

[Scared Silly]

I find this discussion, mostly those griping interesting. Y'all stay at the resort next door and expect to the adjacent resort's facilities for free. Seems rather entitled.

 

[wateraddiction]

We hired a private DM Ruben Ruiz who runs marinebiologyexpeditions.com and he "covered" the pier fee at Iberostar which I believe they raised to $7/pp this year. We did 32 tanks with Ruben (2-4 divers depending on whether my kids dived or went to kids club) on a small, fast boat with tons of shade and the price was only nominally higher than Dressel's quote (Iberostar's onsite shop that loads 16 divers/boat).

So there are some independent operators who want your business for the week and who are willing to include the pier fee instead of tacking it onto the 2 tank cost.

 

[morecowbells]

I find this discussion, mostly those griping interesting. Y'all stay at the resort next door and expect to the adjacent resort's facilities for free. Seems rather entitled.

I never had an issue with the $5 a day usage fee. The jump up to $10 per person, per day is no longer about pier maintenance, but greed. This is especially true if they are charging the Secrets guests the $10 fee for using an outside dive op.

 

[Kimela]

I find this discussion, mostly those griping interesting. Y'all stay at the resort next door and expect to the adjacent resort's facilities for free. Seems rather entitled.

Not me. I’ll be paying top dollar at the Dreams resort.

 

[Shawn C]

I find this discussion, mostly those griping interesting. Y'all stay at the resort next door and expect to the adjacent resort's facilities for free. Seems rather entitled.

I think you've missed the point. It's less about people staying next door and having to pay $10 pp/pd and more about the fact that if you stay at Sabor/Dreams/Secrets and you want to use another dive shop, rather than the in house op, you also have to pay $10 pp/pd. Given what it costs to stay at these "all inclusives" that's just greed and a total rip-off.

Palace once tried to charge an outrageous amount to use the dock (to guests using third party dive ops) but enough people made enough noise and they completely backed down.

 

[Wheeler925]

Cozumel is starting to nickel and dime everyone. Dock fees, marine park fees that are out of control, fee fees just because fees, etc.

 

[ggunn]

I find this discussion, mostly those griping interesting. Y'all stay at the resort next door and expect to the adjacent resort's facilities for free. Seems rather entitled.

Most of the griping has been about resorts charging guests who are staying there being charged a dock fee if they are picked up by an op who is other than the op based at that resort. Some are also being charged if they are picked up by, for example, a fishing boat.

 

[Ontwreckdiver]

We hired a private DM Ruben Ruiz who runs marinebiologyexpeditions.com and he "covered" the pier fee at Iberostar which I believe they raised to $7/pp this year.

We stayed at the Iberostar in April and the pier fee was $4 a day.

 

[Scared Silly]

Most of the griping has been about resorts charging guests who are staying there being charged a dock fee if they are picked up by an op who is other than the op based at that resort. Some are also being charged if they are picked up by, for example, a fishing boat.

I think you've missed the point. It's less about people staying next door and having to pay $10 pp/pd and more about the fact that if you stay at Sabor/Dreams/Secrets and you want to use another dive shop, rather than the in house op, you also have to pay $10 pp/pd. Given what it costs to stay at these "all inclusives" that's just greed and a total rip-off.

Palace once tried to charge an outrageous amount to use the dock (to guests using third party dive ops) but enough people made enough noise and they completely backed down.

Resorts built the dock for their guests and their businesses to use. If an outside dive ops wants to use the dock, even if the guests are staying there what is wrong with paying a "docking" fee given one of the businesses is a dive op?

If the resort did not have its own in house dive op then the griping would be justified but that is not case. So again the griping reeks of entitlement at worst or failing to understanding a business investment at best.

 

[ggunn]

Resorts built the dock for their guests and their businesses to use. If an outside dive ops wants to use the dock, even if the guests are staying there what is wrong with paying a "docking" fee given one of the businesses is a dive op?

They aren't charging the other ops, they are charging the guests if they use another op.

I wasn't taking a position, just stating the facts.