Diver Girl 1:
Hi DeepLou,
Just wanted to let you know that you can fly over to San Pedro and dive. We booked the flight for $45 dollars round trip and are going with Aqua Dives. They have a website aquadives.com and they pick us up from the airport and take us back. They were reasonable and would work with our ship times too. I don't know much of anything about them, but you might want to look into that.
Well I am back!
As I said booked all 4 ports through the ship.
Belize they used Hugh Parkley's which from what I have seen is a large operator. There were 24 on a 48 ft. boat. They picked us up at the ship and took us out to Turniffe Caye. Good dive deascent amout of bottom time, although "follow the leader" (they broke group up into 3 groups)
Spoke to someone on ship who was booked but missed the boat. He went into Belize City and ended up hooking up with someone(he didn't say who) that for $105 sent him over to San Pedro and on a boat and back. Only due to time restrengths he only got one dive in.
Roatan: they used Anthony Key Resort. There were 40 divers booked. We were split up to 3 different boats. All 48 footers. Walls were really neat as they really went straight up and down, (as compared to other places where wall is more of a steep slope).
Grand Cayman: they used Don Forster's another recognized operator. There were only about 15 divers on this one, don't remember exact count. First dive was follow the leader going aroung washouts between coral heads on the wall, and thru some neat swim thorughs. Second dive was a reef abt 45 ft, guided tour was on request otherwise you were on your own w/buddy. I went in with girl from Calif, we were first in the water and last out. Funny thing some of the best stuff to see was right under the boat!
Cozumel: I booked Cenote dive through ship. There were only 8 of us that signed up for this one. They put us on a ferry to Plya Del Carmen. There we were met by the dive operator. We drove abt half hour south on a paved road, then made a right onto a dirt road for about a mile or two into the woods. We broke into two groups of 4 plus a divemaster. Cenote was neat, may just decide to head to FL for cavern and cave certs. PS: this trip met on the pier at 11am right after ship docked and we didn't get back to ship till 7 pm.
Although the trips through ship may have been more expensive, than booking my own, the trips were good and there were no hassels.