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I'm super cheap so I don't even have a Disney subscription. Despite being super cheap (other Canadians would tactfully call it "sensible with their money"), I'd still go back to Cozumel.

I find things in the US cost noticeably more than up in Canada, especially when you factor in the exchange rate, but maybe I'm just visiting the expensive places like California. In Cozumel I was surprised that even tropical fruit at the supermarkets cost more than the same fruit back home, even...

If I remember right, it was from 7:30 to about 1:00. I think regarding prices, the days of Mexico being a cheap destination are long gone. They haven't quite hit Hawaii prices yet, but most things (restaurants, hotels, dive charters, car rentals, etc.) all seemed to cost a bit more than where I...

We found the cash-only thing to be strange too. It seemed like a lot of money to be carrying in your pocket. You don't have to pay until you arrive so if you cancel at the last minute, you don't have to pay anything, unlike many other hotels that you prepay with a credit card from a booking site...

I stayed there in Dec. last year. They provide free steel tanks and weights (and snorkeling gear) at the hotel. The tanks are smaller than the ones they use on the boats. The area out in front of the hotel is a wall that drops to sand and seagrass about 10' deep. In my opinion, it's great...

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I used Kona Shore Divers last year. One thing I learned is that the shops I went to won't fill tanks in the afternoons or on Sundays and they won't fill a tank from another shop.

When we go to Maui we like to stay in Kihei. There's an actual town with restaurants and grocery stores and condo rentals are about 1/4 the price of Kaanapali hotels. We would go to the Foodland grocery store, get plate lunches or poke bowls and eat it on one of the local beaches for lunch...

A bunch of my snorkeling videos from various sites in Maui:

I've done a bit of snorkeling on both Maui and the Big Island in the last few years. Here are some links to the photos/reports: Maui: http://www.victoriabcdiving.com/maui2022.html Big Island: http://www.victoriabcdiving.com/hawaiibigisland.html All of the sites were shore snorkeling. If I had to...

By the way, funny story about diving in Nha Trang... I was underwater during the dive and I saw another dive "tour" with the dive masters (I assume) swimming along holding the tourists like suitcases from handles on the back of their tanks. The tourists weren't wearing fins and they just hung...

I spent 20 years in the navy so most of my international diving has been in that category too.

I did a day of diving off Nha Trang in 2019. Video: Photos/Report:nhatrang I thought it was enjoyable, but not in the same category of other places in SE Asia. Basically, I wouldn't travel there just to dive, but if I was there for other reasons, it's definitely worth doing some diving.

Where I live (Vancouver Island), there are tons of sealions (both California and the much bigger Steller's sealions) so diving with sealions wouldn't be a huge draw for me. index

Marginally. Flights cost a bit more to there. Basically we wanted more of the Caribbean sort of ecosystem. To me Baja seems kind of desolate. And I don't know if there is much in the way of shore diving and snorkeling. From the satellite image, the shoreline seems mostly sandy. Plus I don't feel...

I recently booked flights to Cancun from the West coast of Canada. The flight is about 7.5 hours and gets me into Cancun at about 5:30. With the road transfer to Playa del Carmen and the ferry trip, I can get to Cozumel the same evening. I looked into flying into the Cozumel airport, but it...

I've found that Dressel Divers out of the Iberstar Resort does "splitting" of their 2-tank dives. Basically for a small splitting fee, you can buy a 2-tank charter and do one dive each on different days. They get back to their dock after the first dive at 10:00-10:30. The only problem is their...