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

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Aldora/Villa Aldora, Mar, 2005, by Mike Hynan, WI, USA ( Reviewer 5 reports). Report 1851.
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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	My wife and I dove 5 consecutive days with Aldora. It was our first time in Cozumel. Undercurrent and word of mouth made Aldora one of our top three choices for a dive operator. A phone conservation with Dave, the owner, sealed the deal. We stayed in the Barracuda suite at Villa Aldora and loved it. No problems with bugs mentioned in the other reports. Great view and everything works. Greg and Kay, the managers, are the best. Greg met us at the airport at 8:00 pm, oriented us to where we were, and provided a 6 pack in the suite. The next day Greg took us grocery shopping, and brought the food back to Villa Aldora while we checked in at the dive office. He packed everything away for us! We ate four meals in (using the gas grill at the Villa), and three dinners out. Taxi rides into town were easy to find and inexpensive, $3-4. The only problem with the apartment was a refrigerator with a slight leak, which was quickly attended to. Some of the other guests may have been bothered by noise from remodeling the back apartments. Internet connections and free long distance worked perfectly. Diving was also great, as this was our first concentrated experience with drift diving. As advertised, we were put on a boat with divers of comprable experience. Vollrath was our dive master. He was friendly, attentive, and ran a tight ship. We knew we were in good hands, and we were very happy that he was with us for all five days of diving. He was very open to going to sites we wanted to go to and diving profiles that we wanted. When my wife forgot her scuba boots one day, Vollrath loaned his to her for the first dive, and Greg and Kay got her boots to her during our on-shore lunch surface interval. Lunch here was a little pricey, but good. I especially liked the club sandwhiches. Overall cost of lodging and diving was comprable to Little Cayman (maybe a little less), but the cost of food on Cozumel was much less. We plan to be repeat customers!!
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Florida Keys, Little Cayman, Puget Sound, Lake Michigan
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	78-79°F / 26-26°C	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	30-130 Ft/ 9-40 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
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
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/Villa Aldora in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan

Aldora/Villa Aldora, Mar, 2005,

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