Dive Review of Pepe Scuba/Coral Princess Hotel in
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Pepe Scuba/Coral Princess Hotel, Aug, 2004, by Barry S. Yoss, NY, United States . Report 1314.
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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	Stayed for the first time at Coral Princess Hotel, located north of town. Adjoining high-rise buildings, one for hotel, one for time-share. Some studio suites, most with twin beds and stall showers. We had one bedroom suite, more like an apartment with large bedroom, living room, and full kitchen. Two terraces, one with table and chairs. Ocean view, facing west, convenient for drying dive gear. Plenty of storage space. Full tub/shower, convenient for soaking dive gear. Plenty of hot water. Bottled water provided on arrival; additional bottles at nominal charge. Two small pools, one with swim-up bar. Large sandy beach area, with palapas for shade. Price was the same at 6 different travel web sites. Hotel staff friendly and accomodating. Restaurant with reasonably good food. Continental breakfast included in our rate (seasonal promotion), but food only mediocre-opt to pay additional for full breakfast. Taxi to downtown $3 per trip. Pepe Scuba on site. Rates discounted for multiple dive days. Two typical Cozumel open boats, accomodate 10 divers in each, but we never had more than 8. Awning for shade. Divemaster Rosendo very safety conscious, readily located treacherous down-wellings from surface observations and avoided them. Strong 3 knot current first few days. Lost a 12 year old and his mother to the current one day; divemaster quickly located them and boat readily located and picked up the wayward divers. Rosendo was very good at locating elusive critters, such as the splendid toadfish, which is native to Cozumel. Saw large groupers, free swiming large green morays, free swimming nurse sharks, turtles, and saw a pod of dolphins on the way to the divesite. Because the hotel is north of town, while dive sites are to the south, we had a longer distance to cover. However, their boats are very fast, so we usually were one of the first groups at each site. I would not hesitate to use them if we stay at the same hotel next time.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Various caribbean islands
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	80-81°F / 27-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Group had to stay together.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	1 or 2	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 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
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	No camera bucket. Boat captain hand you the camera after water entry. Surface interval done on shore, convenient for reloading camera without getting the film wet.

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Dive Review of Pepe Scuba/Coral Princess Hotel in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel

Pepe Scuba/Coral Princess Hotel, Aug, 2004,

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Dive Review of Pepe Scuba/Coral Princess Hotel in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel