Service For This Trip Provided By

Air Canada Vacations,     Iberostar,    Dressel Divers   

The Resort

This is a great place for a number of reasons. In no particular order

• really good food. brekky was either a hot buffet, fruit and serial buffet, or made to order omlette. lunch was a cold buffet and/or hot buffet and/or recently grilled burger or hot dog. supper was a cold buffet and/or hot buffet and/or recently cooked steak/fish/roast/something else really good.
• really good entertainment. the nightly shows were fantastic.
• very close to dive sites. the longest boat ride was to Punta Sur, 20 minutes. we were 15 minutes from Palancar and about 53 seconds for Cedral Passage

About diving, we dove with Dressel Divers, located on site. Having said that, we did notice that other guests got picked up from the Iberostar dock by other dive ops.

The Dive Shop

We selected Dressel Divers because they are onsite at Iberostar. They were a good choice. You can do 1 to 4 dives with them each day, we did two. The way that works is every morning there is a two tank dive with a return to the hotel for the surface interval. In other words, there are two one tank dives each morning. In the afternoon, there is a normal two tank dive.

The time on shore between morning dives varied between 15 and 45 minutes. There was always time for a flush toilet break and sometimes time for a coffee. We didn't do it ourselves, but one other buddy pair had breakfast between dives.

Every once in awhile you hear a story about the entire group having to surface when one diver runs out of air. These guys take a different approach. They send up a safety sausage, tell the low on air diver to surface near the sausage and let the rest of us carry on. The dive duration varied. It could have been due to the guide, or the schedule, or something else. Sometimes we were invited to dive our air/bottom time. A couple of other times there was a time limit.

The Diving

The diving was fantastic, as it always is in Cozumel. Visibility was good, and the temperature was around 80 F. The reefs were beautiful and there were lots of fish.