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I wish the Mexico forum here was divided with sub forums for Yucatan/Maya Rivera vs Baja & West Coast as it's a big country, close & popular with US divers, but so different in destinations. I have looked over the last hundred threads tho, and read several about Baja destinations. The Cabo-names you all use can be a little confusing, but then since Cabo is Spanish for Cape, many of the locations do have that in their real names - including the airports. It'd be nice if people would always clarify which Cabo they mean exactly. Then there are the people in Los Angeles & San Diego in the US who say they are in Southern California. :laughing: Showing them maps and history doesn't seem to help understand that they are in Alta California with Southern California being the peninsula.
Okay, I've been to Cozumel at least a dozen times I guess, dived cenotes, driven to several ruins, been lost in the jungle at night looking for Holbox - which I eventually found, but I gather that the southern tip of this peninsula is totally different? My barber mentioned that they were going for a few days tho (I think they are there now), so I got to looking - and the flights from Lubbock to there are better & cheaper than to Cozumel! I looked at using my American FF-miles, but those are so difficult to use, then it's 35K miles plus over $90 in taxes & fees - just a poor choice, when I can pay $353 for better flights and earn more FF-miles I can't find a good use for. Anyway, I'll save the FF-miles for domestic ideas, somewhere, someday.
(1) So you fly into Los Cabos International Airport (SJD), right? That's not so obvious for a first timer, but that looks like the only choice - up the coast and north of San José del Cabo. I am spoiled with landing on the north side of town in Cozumel, and it looks like it's 50 Km or 31 miles down to Cabo San Lucas, (similar to the Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Cozumel bag-drag I've done a few times). I've read warnings on how much taxis and rental cars are - especially for a solo traveler not sharing the costs with anyone else, but it'd be tempting to go look at Cabo Pulmo and maybe even La Paz while in the area - yet maybe another trip? So there is good bus service to Cabo San Lucas? I am challenged by the amount of gear I think I need for a dive trip, including pony bottle & extra regs. I can pay the luggage fees, and I can carry all my gear to a boat ok, but I can't carry all of my luggage out at once, much less across parking lots and around town.
(2) Would late August be a good time? It's a good time for me, depending on the pros & cons. What are the best months to go and why? It looks like that's in early hurricane season, and they do get hit more than Cozumel - but weather is a risk of travel, always. And how cold does the water get? I am so spoiled to wearing a 1-mil jump suit year round, but I have dived Puget Sound in my 7+1. Just hate to take too much, or worse - not enough.
(3) I've seen some hate San José diving and some like it? I can land before lunch so have plenty of time to get on down to Cabo San Lucas that day, but I might want to do a few days & nights in San Jose, then move to Cabo San Lucas. I can also plan to fly out after lunch on departure, so I guess I have plenty of ground time. I guess there's a bus into San Jose, a bus another day to Cabo San Lucas, then a bus back to the airport when I leave.
(4) Then I need pick hotels near the docks, so where do the dive ops dock in both places?
(5) Dive Ops in both ports.
Okay, I've been to Cozumel at least a dozen times I guess, dived cenotes, driven to several ruins, been lost in the jungle at night looking for Holbox - which I eventually found, but I gather that the southern tip of this peninsula is totally different? My barber mentioned that they were going for a few days tho (I think they are there now), so I got to looking - and the flights from Lubbock to there are better & cheaper than to Cozumel! I looked at using my American FF-miles, but those are so difficult to use, then it's 35K miles plus over $90 in taxes & fees - just a poor choice, when I can pay $353 for better flights and earn more FF-miles I can't find a good use for. Anyway, I'll save the FF-miles for domestic ideas, somewhere, someday.
(1) So you fly into Los Cabos International Airport (SJD), right? That's not so obvious for a first timer, but that looks like the only choice - up the coast and north of San José del Cabo. I am spoiled with landing on the north side of town in Cozumel, and it looks like it's 50 Km or 31 miles down to Cabo San Lucas, (similar to the Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Cozumel bag-drag I've done a few times). I've read warnings on how much taxis and rental cars are - especially for a solo traveler not sharing the costs with anyone else, but it'd be tempting to go look at Cabo Pulmo and maybe even La Paz while in the area - yet maybe another trip? So there is good bus service to Cabo San Lucas? I am challenged by the amount of gear I think I need for a dive trip, including pony bottle & extra regs. I can pay the luggage fees, and I can carry all my gear to a boat ok, but I can't carry all of my luggage out at once, much less across parking lots and around town.
(2) Would late August be a good time? It's a good time for me, depending on the pros & cons. What are the best months to go and why? It looks like that's in early hurricane season, and they do get hit more than Cozumel - but weather is a risk of travel, always. And how cold does the water get? I am so spoiled to wearing a 1-mil jump suit year round, but I have dived Puget Sound in my 7+1. Just hate to take too much, or worse - not enough.
(3) I've seen some hate San José diving and some like it? I can land before lunch so have plenty of time to get on down to Cabo San Lucas that day, but I might want to do a few days & nights in San Jose, then move to Cabo San Lucas. I can also plan to fly out after lunch on departure, so I guess I have plenty of ground time. I guess there's a bus into San Jose, a bus another day to Cabo San Lucas, then a bus back to the airport when I leave.
(4) Then I need pick hotels near the docks, so where do the dive ops dock in both places?
(5) Dive Ops in both ports.