Dive Review of Aldora Divers in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan

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Aldora Divers: "Better than Roatan/Plastic Guilt", Dec, 2024, by Barbara Raulston, NM, US ( 1 report). Report 13274.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	We flew into Cancun so one in the group could dive cenotes on mainland. We went to Cozumel by ferry. Taxi to the Villablanca Hotel ($7) and dove with Aldora Divers. Other taxi rides into town were $10 each way, ask about fares first. First the hotel- not really set up for divers, no rinse tank or outdoor showers (easy fix if they choose to), restaurant was late opening (another somewhat easy fix, but it is run separately from hotel, so not hotel’s fault). We went to grocery store after the first morning and ate in room so we wouldn’t miss our boat. Disappointed that the hotel doesn’t have a water dispenser to fill up water bottles, we used a lot of plastic bottles. If all the hotels would just do this, they would cut down on so much plastic! The rooms were fine, clean and comfortable, ours had a small balcony to hang wet stuﬀ-not that it dried, but helpful. Aldora Divers picked us up right on time every morning at the pier across the street from hotel. Aldora provides only steel tanks, and big ones at that, so dives were long, 70-80 minutes each. I decided that steel tanks are not for me, but others swear by them and said they have gone with Aldora for years. They were just plain heavy and cumbersome for me, just couldn’t get used to them and the longer dives didn’t make up for it for us. Rich, the DM was great, as was the rest of the staﬀ. We dove at Palancar Bricks (spotted eagle rays), San Francisco (more eagle rays!), Columbia (Southern sting rays), Punta Tunich (3 splendid toadfish, spotted moray, a pair of flying gunnards, 2 flounders), Punta Sur (reef shark, electric ray), Yucab (splendid toadfish) were some highlights. All of the sites had some coral bleaching, Punta Sur especially bad. Pleased to see coral bleaching at Cozumel is not as bad as Roatan (dove there same time of year in 2023, bleaching was SO depressing). We missed Scuba Club’s convenience, restaurant, dive ops and water dispenser, as well as its proximity to town. Villablanca is a bit far to walk to town.
Websites	Aldora Divers
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Roatan, Philippines, Raja Ampat, Bonaire, Panama
Closest Airport	Cozumel and Cancun	Getting There	Albuquerque to Phoenix to Cancun
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	choppy, currents
Water Temp	80-80°F / 27-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	25-75 Ft/ 8-23 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Stay with the group, follow DM
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Aldora Divers in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan

Aldora Divers: "Better than Roatan/Plastic Guilt", Dec, 2024,

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Dive Review of Aldora Divers in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan