Instant Reader Report
on Aldora / Iberostar in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan / Cozumel on
2002/07
by
Duane Hill , t, USA
Report Number 020730203354511

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Dive Conditions

First diver low on air breathed from the divemasters octopus, when second
person was below 1000, dive time was almost up  

[None]  

Overall Rating

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.   

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