Dive Review of Dive Paradise/Wyndham Cozumel Hotel & Resort in
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Dive Paradise/Wyndham Cozumel Hotel & Resort: "Good diving but a lot of gear schlepping", Feb, 2022, by Harvey Cohen, NJ, US ( Sr. Contributor 25 reports with 18 Helpful votes). Report 12265 has 1 Helpful vote.
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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	Dive Paradise is across a 4-lane street from the hotel. It's not difficult to cross, but there is also a pedestrian tunnel. The dive center has outdoor showers and rinse tanks and an outdoor rack to hang gear. The only secure space to store gear overnight is a bank of truly awful lockers. The lockers are about 2 feet high and wide and 3 feet deep, so gear must simply sit on the locker floor. Locker floors stay extremely wet, so gear just marinates. The only practical course is to rinse gear and take everything back to the hotel room. This can be a very long hike. On the bright side, the hotel rooms have large balconies set up to hang gear for drying. Dive staff and boat crews are excellent-- helpful and professional and friendly. Dive Paradise has several boats; ours was a full-displacement hull-- reasonably roomy and comfortable, but with a speed of about 9 knots. We spent a lot of time getting to and from dive sites. Hotel food was all-you-can-eat, but merely OK IMHO. I paid separately for a day trip to cenotes. It took several hours to get there, and we did 2 tanks in the very crowded Los Ojos. It's a bucket-list item, but I wouldn't do it a second time.
Websites	Dive Paradise Wyndham Cozumel Hotel & Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Gulf of Eilat, Bali, Komodo, Raja Ampat, Banda Sea, Red Sea, Fiji, Palau, Coral Sea, Galapagos, many Caribbean locations, New Jersey, Florida, National Aquarium, Dutch Springs, Silfra (Iceland), Panama (Pacific), Seattle Bay
Closest Airport	Cozumel	Getting There	I flew from Newark (EWR) to Houston to Cozumel on United.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	77-81°F / 25-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	40-70 Ft/ 12-21 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Back on boat within specified time.
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
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Hotel rooms provide a real desk for your PC. That's about it. As mentioned above, it's a long walk from the pier to the hotel room with all your gear.

Report currently has 1 Helpful vote

Subscriber's Comments

By Garth Peterson in OH, US at Mar 09, 2023 19:35 EST

I've walked thru there before(gift shops too). Nice place but yes the lockers looked basic. They did have snuba cycles there at one point. Helmet snuba in shallow water for rookies. It was pricier than Scuba club Cozumel but has nice pools and volleyball etc. so more amentities. Can get other island excurisons from their lobby too which is handy.

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Dive Review of Dive Paradise/Wyndham Cozumel Hotel & Resort in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel

Dive Paradise/Wyndham Cozumel Hotel & Resort: "Good diving but a lot of gear schlepping", Feb, 2022,

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Dive Review of Dive Paradise/Wyndham Cozumel Hotel & Resort in
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