Instant Reader Report on Diving
Sand Dollar Sports/Reef Club in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel in
2002/07

by
Billy E. Haggerty Jr. CRNA, Texas, USA
Report Number 021217115353858

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 Florida, Hawaii, Texas, New Mexico, Cozumel 

Watch computer, stay with Dive Master, Surface with 500psi air.  

Separate wash buckets for u/w video and cameras, Staff very knowledgeable  

Overall Rating

The Reef Club in Cozumel is an all-inclusive (including meals and alcohol)
resort way south of the main town in Cozumel.  This is great for repeat
divers to the Island and non-divers who want to lay back on the beach and
not be hasseled by the "hawkers" in town peddaling their wares. 
The room was very clean and all of the options in the room worked. (a/c,
toilet, shower, etc.)  The huge pools are clean and have plenty of staff
directed activitites to get you involved if you wish. Great place for the
kids.  They have activities for all age groups.  There is also an adult
only pool with a swim up bar.  The food is served buffet styled.  Food was
OK and speciality themed each day and night.  A huge Mexican Fiesta night
mid-week with tons of food and a special entertainment show.  Each night
there is a staff show in the a/c'ed theater.  A taxi to town is roughly
$170 pesos each way for up to 4 people.($15)  I would definately go back to
this facility.
Sand Dollar Sports (SDS) scuba shop is full of English speaking helpful
and talented folks.  They make the diving easy.  There are dive packages
available check the internet or your vacation travel agent.  Mine was
BayAdventures.com.  They only book Cozumel trips.  The SDS shop is on the
Reef Clubs north end and a pier for the dive boats is there also.  The best
part about these "south of the Island" dive operators.....only a
5-10 minute boat ride to the reefs that you dive.  Usually these are 40
minutes to an hour at least from the operations near downtown Cozumel.  No
food or drinks on the boat between dives...so bring your own from
breakfast.  I was issued a free dive locker for the week that I was there. 
Fresh water rinse sink handy.  I dove with an U/W video camera all week and
had a blast.  Certification classes available, look at the website.  Nice
big boats.  They dive 2tanks in the am and pm and night dive if enough
interest to fill a boat.  Punta Sur is so close.  Go see the "church
with the white coral/sponge cross" and Devils Throat.    

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