It's interesting how this thread has become a bash on AI's. In more than a dozen trips to both the mainland and Cozumel we've only stayed AI's but but that's not to say we've only camped out at the resorts without experiencing anything off the resort. We do our best to venture into town as often as we feel like it. Honestly, in so many trips having experienced everything I feel there is to experience, nowadays I'm content to camp out at the resort. I go to relax and dive. I don't find it fun anymore to deal with the crowds, traffic, fumes and constantly being asked to buy something. I know solace can be found away from the square back in the hood but then you see how the locals live and it's honestly quite heart breaking to see.
I don't go to Cozumel for the food... in fact, I really don't go anywhere with the intent to gorge myself on exotic, exquisite cuisine. While in Mexico, or anywhere else, it's subsistence living for me. I used to have a very sensitive gut. Getting TD when traveling was always part of the experience. Since 2004, I've not had one incident. Sure I practice a fairly stern routine with what I do as I expressed in my earlier post. Coincedentally, I started enjoying sushi back in 04 which might have helped build the immunity my body was lacking. I don't know but either way, I don't get sick anymore whether it's eating at the AI, restaurants in town, eating ice or drinking excessively. FWIW, Just about every day for lunch I have a hamburger at FA with a nice dollop of mayonnaise off the chow line without problems.
Pissy wetsuits in the rinse tank!?!? Leave it to DandyDon to think of it. That is just nasty! I never thought of it but then again, I don't see many people putting their wetsuits in the rinse tanks.
