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Scuba Club Cozumel: "A success week in Cozumel", Nov, 2015, by John, CA, US ( 2 reports). Report 8627.
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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	Very quickly after arriving at Scuba Club Cozumel, we discovered that many, perhaps most, of the people in the hotel were divers who had been there before. Most, I suspect, on the basis of our experience, would be willing to come yet again. That may be all you need to know. The check-in was friendly and moderately quick. Our room appeared to have been recently refurbished. It was clean and odor free and everything worked (A/C, refrigerator, roof-fan, Wi-fi). It was designed with divers in mind – spacious shower, good drainage in the bathroom floor and a generous balcony with lots of hanging space. The property appeared very secure. The dive operation was very good from our vantage. It appears that the hotel does not own its own boats, but rather hires from the local fleet to meet demand. It works. We were on the same boat with the same group of divers each of our five days of diving. They did not “stuff” the boat. Our dive master, captain and deck hand (Sergio, Victor, Ivan) were friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. There is a hook. The hotel is easy walking distance to town (San Miguel), but that means that it is a one hour chug (at 12-15 knots – Oh, for one of those boats with the twin Yamaha 150’s) from the hotel to the principal dive sites on the Palancar reef. A two tank dive was always five plus hours dock to dock. There are rinse tanks, showers and ample locker space (bring a padlock) dock side. There is a National Park fee of $2.50/day/diver that must be paid in cash on day one. One hears too often about such and such a dive destination not being what it used to be. To our eye, that does not apply to the Palancar reef. The reef is as healthy and vibrant as it was ten years ago. We filled our critter quota easily – spotted eagle rays, sting rays, nurse sharks, eels, lobsters, crabs, splendid toad fish, pipe sea horse, sea horse (one we encountered should have been a called a sea-Clydesdale), turtles, flounder. In the course of ten tanks, we saw only three lion fish. The temperature at depth (second week of November) were 82-84 F. We were on the three meal a day plan. Mario was the “Maître D” of the dining areas. He runs a good ship and his entire crew was quick and friendly. There was a generous, extensive breakfast buffet, numerous a la carte choices at lunch including a daily luncheon special (always a good bet in our experience), and a very slightly formal dinner with three varying entrée choices. We were generally very pleased, though we found a few dishes to be excessively salted. Remove tight rings at the beginning of the week. All the portions were generous. Another time, we might omit the dinner, as good as it was, from the package and go into town, largely for the sake of “getting off the island” once in a while. (As I type, I am unsure if there is a pay as you go restaurant option at the hotel.) This seems a good point to mention that there is a small exercise room, with a treadmill, an upright exercise bike and dumbell-type weights up to 50 pounds. (A Nordic style ski machine and a stair-stepper were not functional.) This is not the gym you go to in your home town. There is no bench or universal machine, but it is more than we expected to find. When you check in you will be handed a “Tipping Guide”. It reads as follows: Restaurant/Kitchen staff: $ 8-10 per day per guest Chambermaids: $ 4-5 per day per guest Divemasters: $ 6-8 per day per guest Boat crew: $ 6-8 per day per guest Tips must be in cash.
Websites	Scuba Club Cozumel
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Pelau, Fiji, Cocos, ABCs, T&C, other Caribbean
Closest Airport	CZM	Getting There	Via Houston (easy)
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, currents
Water Temp	82-85°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	80-100 Ft/ 24-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Begin ascent at 800
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	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	I am not a UWP. I heard no complaints

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Dive Review of Scuba Club Cozumel in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel

Scuba Club Cozumel: "A success week in Cozumel", Nov, 2015,

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Dive Review of Scuba Club Cozumel in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel