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

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Aldora/Iberostar, Jul, 2002, by Duane Hill, t, USA . Report 32.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Aldora's operation was overall very good. There was a little bit of a rocky start to the trip, however, they got their act together very well. The good: divemaster (Omar) was very good and the 120 cf tanks allowed an amazing bottom time. The bad: on the first day of diving my son and I were on a boat with a woman that required a lot of air. We surfaced within 35 minutes on the deep dive (the shortest by far of the week) with over half of the air remaining in our tanks. We were moved to a different boat that had more experienced divers from the second to the fifth days and we averaged well over an hour for bottom times thereafter. When told to be at the dock by 8:00am, were there with time to spare, and we were never picked up prior to 8:20. When I asked about this, I was told "remember we are on Mexican time here." I found the manager to be very interested in how things were going, and a true desire to make things good for the divers. I found that the repeat divers with this operation were all very experienced and would not think of diving with another dive-op. I will use Aldora on my next trip to Cozumel. The Iberostar was chosen as our accomodations due to the non-divers in our party, and it was a good choice. The beach was great, food was pretty good (this is an all-inclusive resort) and our rooms were fine. We did hear that some of the people that were on the top of the two story buildings had leaky roofs when it rained. We got a great last minute deal using funjet.com and would stay there again. It was far from downtown, but we did not really need to go to town more than once or twice for shopping.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	51-100 dives
Where else diving	[Unspecified]
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	currents
Water Temp	78-82°F / 26-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	1
Water Visibility	25-100 Ft/ 8-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	First diver low on air breathed from the divemasters octopus, when second person was below 1000, dive time was almost up
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	Squadrons
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	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/Iberostar in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel

Aldora/Iberostar, Jul, 2002,

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