Dive Review of Aldora Divers in
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Aldora Divers: "Aldora Divers - Great Diving", Feb, 2018, by Pierre Hurter, CA, US ( Contributor 14 reports with 9 Helpful votes). Report 10422.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude	N/A	Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	We have been going to Cozumel for over 30 years. On our first visit we were not yet scuba divers, but we were avid free divers. Since then we have been coming on and off including every year for the past eight years. We travel with a regular group of 4 to 6 friends, ranging in age from 14 to 70. Our youngest member is a recent scuba convert and wonderful dive partner. Some arrive via Cancun, bus and ferry others fly via Houston or Charlotte and into Cozumel. Either way its a fairly quick and painless trip from the Bay Area. We stayed at the Casa Mexicana, just down the street from the Vista del Mar our usual haunt. It's a bit fancier and has a great breakfast buffet. Good sized rooms and a refregerator ito keep your beer cold and at closs at hand. The Aldora boats load at a pier that is a block or two away, an easy walk and you pass by Coffee Cozumel, the best coffee shop in town. After the first dive we would have lunch on the beach, they even have a taco truck which was really very good. The breaks tend to be long, and I note that in previous reviews some have complained about the time spent on the beach, but our longest dive was 96 minutes, so a longer interval seemd to be a good idea. Nitrox mixes are calibrated to your dives, 32% in the morning, 36% in the afternoon. They definitely cater to your dive profiles. We did a lot of "muck diving" on this trip. If you like small critters, they are here you just need someone who can point them out to you. We had Leoung as our dive guide, she is great at critter spotting. She is also tremendous if you have a young person who would like to get certified. We love Cozumel, great diving, friendly people and once you get away from the cruise ships, great food.
Websites	Aldora Divers
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Alaska, Australia, Belize, Chuuk (Truk), Cozumel, Fiji, Galapogas, Indonesia (Forgotten Islands, Komodo, Raja Ampat), La Paz, Maui, New Zealand, Palau, Philippines, Roatan, Socoro, Tulum
Closest Airport	Cozumel	Getting There	SFO to Charlotte with a fairly long layover and then on to Cozumel. At least we didn't miss our connecting flight this time. The way the airlines measure ontime is when they pull out from the gate, the time spent on the runway waiting doesn't count ... go figure.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas
Water Temp	80-82°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	80-100 Ft/ 24-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	We dove our own profiles after discussing what we wanted to do with our dive master.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	I'm not the photographer in my relationship, but they do a good job of handling cameras professionaly and making sure that everything makes it back onboard after a dive and safely stored.

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Dive Review of Aldora Divers in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel

Aldora Divers: "Aldora Divers - Great Diving", Feb, 2018,

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Dive Review of Aldora Divers in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel