Hotel Cozumel

[waterloodiver]

My buddy and I will stay at Hotel Cozumel Feb 9-16, it will be my 3rd trip and 1st for my buddy, all 1st time stay at this hotel.

We didn't choose OP yet, plan to do some shore dive at afternoon and night, I ready about shore dive at Blue Angel is good, so do Dive Paradise offer tank and weight? How is the shore dive compare to Blue Angel? Thanks

 

[DandyDon]

My buddy and I will stay at Hotel Cozumel Feb 9-16, it will be my 3rd trip and 1st for my buddy, all 1st time stay at this hotel.

We didn't choose OP yet, plan to do some shore dive at afternoon and night, I ready about shore dive at Blue Angel is good, so do Dive Paradise offer tank and weight? How is the shore dive compare to Blue Angel? Thanks

I've read here that Dive Paradise allows one free shore dive tank if you dive with them, then $7 each there after.

Most of the other Ops along that area do allow free tanks & weights for shore dives, but you'd spend as much money on taxis maybe.

 

[scubatree]

In Septemeber of 2010 a tank for a shore dive and weights at Hotel Cozumel was $6.00 and has been for years. They also have a really good entry point for shore dives that protects from the waves and boat wakes.

 

[scubatree]

The Hotel also issues the keys for the locker locks and we have never had to provide our own locks. The doors to the lockers have an integral lock. The basket deal must be somewhere else because the Hotel Cozumel has lockers...no "baskets",

 

[Hemlon]

We have stayed at Hotel Cozumel before and will be staying there again in June. The rooms are spacious and clean. The hotel is across the street from the beach and is an easy trek into town. (30 min walk for us)

We have found the hotel's food to be sub-par, but then we tend to be foodies. While we eat there for breakfast, we eat lunch and dinner elsewhere. For us, part of the fun of vacationing in Cozumel is trying the little hole-in-the-wall places. Christi from Blue XT Sea has a great list of restaurants on her website.

All-inclusive vacationing is not our style. We love to try new places, esp in Cozumel. This, along with getting a MUCH better price, are among the reasons that we opted against joining the Invasion.

 

[Darol]

Love the lockers, never ever use the dunk tank, sometimes nasty. They have two real nice stand up showers, right across from the lockers, you can get the sand off, and whatever else is on your
wetsuit, and there's plenty of hangers for your gear to dry.

 

[Darol]

One thing to keep in mind for newer people, please wait for your boat to show up before moving your gear on the dock. It can get real congested, and makes it much safer for everyone if you do. Here's a few pics from around campus, I love the place.

 

[cardzard]

Love the lockers, never ever use the dunk tank, sometimes nasty. They have two real nice stand up showers, right across from the lockers, you can get the sand off, and whatever else is on your
wetsuit, and there's plenty of hangers for your gear to dry.

I agree having lockers right at the dock is great both coming and going. Drop off the gear, shower off any sand then it's off to the pool for a few cold ones.

Tough work but somebody has to do it.

 

[mstevens]

I like Hotel Cozumel fine. We have to rent 2 rooms, so the Presidente is no longer a realistic option... The HC is reasonably clean, reasonably located, and reasonably priced. It offers reasonable amenities. Nothing outstanding, nothing awful. The price makes up for the mediocrity.

There's no way I would do AI anywhere on the island. The food at local restaurants is almost as big an attraction for us as the diving. Any meal taken at a hotel is a meal in town missed. For the alcoholics out there, beer and booze is quite cheap at the local grocery stores. If one is too drunk to mix one's own margarita, it's time to quit for the night, anyway. You can eat like a king and induce severe liver damage for considerably less than an AI plan costs, and have way more enjoyment doing it.

In general, the house dive operators all over the island tend to cater to new divers and run large boats with strict schedules both of dive sites and of dive times. This, like all generalities, probably has exceptions. Overall, I think there are enough outstanding independent dive ops on the island that it makes sense to choose one of them.

I've never had anything stolen in Cozumel. Like others, we travel with cameras, computers, and cash (does everything expensive start with "C?"). I may live to regret it some day, but I put anything that will fit in the safe and don't worry about anything else.

On our last trip to HC, the WiFi worked only in the lobby for half the trip and worked fine in the rooms for the other half.

 

[roatanjan]

We are staying at Hotel Cozumel next month for 2 weeks (AI), our return flight does not depart until 9pm, would we be allowed to keep our wristbands past 12 noon checkout, to be allowed to use restaurnt/bar?Would we be allowed dinner in the dinning room before we leave for airport?