Wow, just got back from 8 days in Coz after 6 years since our last trip.
Ok, so we stayed at the Occidental Grand. It is an all inclusive resort pretty far south serviced by Dive Palancar. The hotel was great. As a gift, family upgraded us to the Royal Club. This was a great perk. Food was good if not great every single day. Never got bored of the food. A few meals in the buffet and the rest in the restaurants that require reservations.
Dove with BlueXTSea a couple of days (all we could get on short schedule). Small fast boat with excellent service. Our DM, Pedro was great and made a point to make us better divers on each dive. We had some VERY fast current a couple of times and was fun, but an advanced dive and we had to hang on the bottom a bit to try to keep the group from getting seperated.
Dove the rest of the time with Dive Palancar (house operation). They were very convenient in that I could just stop by or call and reserve the morning dive the night before. Large boats and was great that we took our surface interval back at the hotel dock most times. Groups were larger and more varied in experience level (as would be expected), but they were quite interested in keeping all happy.
We did get blown out and couldn't dive for 2 days because of Hurricane Rita in the Gulf, but got back on the stick on Friday. Actually had our best dives on Friday, including some awesome drift night dives.
Although vis was down from my previous trip to coz, it was still awesome. Id probably say it was 40-50' but I'm guessing.
anyway was a great vacation and tons of fun.
Ok, so we stayed at the Occidental Grand. It is an all inclusive resort pretty far south serviced by Dive Palancar. The hotel was great. As a gift, family upgraded us to the Royal Club. This was a great perk. Food was good if not great every single day. Never got bored of the food. A few meals in the buffet and the rest in the restaurants that require reservations.
Dove with BlueXTSea a couple of days (all we could get on short schedule). Small fast boat with excellent service. Our DM, Pedro was great and made a point to make us better divers on each dive. We had some VERY fast current a couple of times and was fun, but an advanced dive and we had to hang on the bottom a bit to try to keep the group from getting seperated.
Dove the rest of the time with Dive Palancar (house operation). They were very convenient in that I could just stop by or call and reserve the morning dive the night before. Large boats and was great that we took our surface interval back at the hotel dock most times. Groups were larger and more varied in experience level (as would be expected), but they were quite interested in keeping all happy.
We did get blown out and couldn't dive for 2 days because of Hurricane Rita in the Gulf, but got back on the stick on Friday. Actually had our best dives on Friday, including some awesome drift night dives.
Although vis was down from my previous trip to coz, it was still awesome. Id probably say it was 40-50' but I'm guessing.
anyway was a great vacation and tons of fun.
