Cozumel - post-2005 hurricane season
Posted By Michael Marcotte on 26 September 2006
Dressel’s pre-dive briefing was excellent, as was their on-board check of equipment, and underwater siting/pointing out of aquatic life. Dressel Divers is a first-class, professional SCUBA operation, which I can now recommend. I am amazed and very impressed by their entirely non-requisite intervention to minimize the effects of the other dive operator’s actions.
A third dive shop option for Iberostar guests is Dive Palancar, which operates from the nearby Allegro resort, just about a mile down the beach to the north. I’ve used them several years in the past, and except for the logistics of pickup\drop-off (once they forgot us and asked us if we could reschedule, once they asked us to walk down the beach to their dock), they are a good alternative. There are of course a plethora of dive shops closer to town.
The condition of the Ibersotar resort was excellent. Everything was clean and in good operating condition, and the meal buffets were perhaps the best they have been in our many trips to several of the resorts on the island. Kudos to Iberostar’s Chef Maria and the other restaurant cooks and staff. The lobby and main restaurant area have been totally rebuilt following the two 2005 hurricanes and a kitchen fire that damaged the hotel’s main restaurant last year. Everything looked typically exotic, bright and beautiful.
A few travel forums mention a problem with tourists cutting their feet on loose tiles in the Iberostar pool. Although I stepped on a couple such broken pieces during the week, I’m hard-pressed to figure out what I would have had to do to cut myself on one. I didn’t see it as much of a problem, but perhaps I could have tried harder.
As best I can tell, Cozumel is back in business. See you there next year!
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