@Scotian
OK. Let’s see.
Cozumel vs Isla Mujeres. There’s no place like Cozumel for diving, period. No competition! Big problem with Cozumel is that people complain about the prices and the decreasing of the quality of the services provided there. Either you talk about a hotel, a restaurant, a club or taking a taxi, it seems that Cozumel is not having its best days. But if you just want to go to this place in a diving tour leaving Playa at the morning and coming back in the evening, it’s OK.
Now if you ask me to give grades about diving tours (on an excitement/price ratio) by destination, in a scale of zero to ten, I’d say that it’d go like this:
Cozumel, 10
Holbox, 9.5
Isla Mujeres, 9
Akumal, 9
Isla Contoy, 9
Tulum, 8.5
One of my friends booked diving tours in Isla Mujeres in this place. He says the experience was great. Anyway, along the 5th Avenue you will find every 100 m a stand selling you diving tours. They pick you up in a shuttle early in the morning, take you to the place and get you back in the evening.
I just sent you via PM some options for accommodation.
If you want to eat cheaply 10th Av and Av Constituyentes are good places for options. Even in the very corner of 25th Street and Av Constituyentes there’s a tacos restaurant called ‘Tacos Sirlón’ (formerly known as El Fogón). Just across the street in the sidewalk of the Mega Comercial (a Mexican version of Wal-Mart) there’s a guy with a mobile stand selling Argentinian style beef dishes from 2 pm to 4 am of the next day. He uses a giant grill made up from an old industrial gas tank. If you want to have a decent Mexican style breakfast nutritious enough to keep you satisfied until the evening go to ‘La Aldea’ (The Village). It’s on the 5th Av between 14th Street and 14th bis Street. Don’t you go to ‘La Ceiba’, 14th Street between 5th Av and 10th Av. The place advertises a breakfast buffet from 7:00 am to 11:30 for only MXN 140 –not worth it. The juices are canned and refrigerated, the food is poorly tasted, and if you arrive by 10:45 they tell you that you can come in but they will kick your ass in 45 minutes. Yes, the place looks nice from the outside, yes, there’s a line of hot girls waiting to get in (the place belongs to the expensive Hotel Tucán which provides the all-inclusive service to their guests), but unless you are going to try some ‘buffet game’ with some of the girls in there, forget it.
If you have traveled to Playa before, maybe you’d remember that just in the very corner of Juárez Av and the access to the ferry there was an old traditional Mexican rotisserie where you could buy a roasted chicken and a pound of rice for just MXN 70. Well, not anymore. The building was demolished and now you find a line of useless boutiques. When I got there three months ago, I just felt to my knees and began to cry.
Merida is a nice place to visit, but you are not going to find the same kind of activities. It’s an old colonial city with the dynamics of a small town. I wouldn’t recommend you to go.
There’s a small city called Valladolid, three hours driving from Playa, and in the way to Mérida. The place is gorgeous, (you feel you are taken two centuries ago) it has some ‘Cenotes’ for diving and you can try the exquisite Yucatán food, but nothing else. The place is just worth it one day. Now if you are willing to go outside Playa two or three days, people have told me about Holbox. The place is a small island with only three no paved streets with excellent diving tours and very popular among packers. Actually, I want to go there in December to check out everything I have been told.
The most important thing: Be sure to hit the 12th street clubs on these days: Friday 13th to Sunday 15th. It’s the Revolution Day long weekend in Mexico! There will be plenty of hot young Mexican pussy ready for action. So bad that you are not going to get on time for the Day of the Death long weekend!
OK. Let’s see.
Cozumel vs Isla Mujeres. There’s no place like Cozumel for diving, period. No competition! Big problem with Cozumel is that people complain about the prices and the decreasing of the quality of the services provided there. Either you talk about a hotel, a restaurant, a club or taking a taxi, it seems that Cozumel is not having its best days. But if you just want to go to this place in a diving tour leaving Playa at the morning and coming back in the evening, it’s OK.
Now if you ask me to give grades about diving tours (on an excitement/price ratio) by destination, in a scale of zero to ten, I’d say that it’d go like this:
Cozumel, 10
Holbox, 9.5
Isla Mujeres, 9
Akumal, 9
Isla Contoy, 9
Tulum, 8.5
One of my friends booked diving tours in Isla Mujeres in this place. He says the experience was great. Anyway, along the 5th Avenue you will find every 100 m a stand selling you diving tours. They pick you up in a shuttle early in the morning, take you to the place and get you back in the evening.
I just sent you via PM some options for accommodation.
If you want to eat cheaply 10th Av and Av Constituyentes are good places for options. Even in the very corner of 25th Street and Av Constituyentes there’s a tacos restaurant called ‘Tacos Sirlón’ (formerly known as El Fogón). Just across the street in the sidewalk of the Mega Comercial (a Mexican version of Wal-Mart) there’s a guy with a mobile stand selling Argentinian style beef dishes from 2 pm to 4 am of the next day. He uses a giant grill made up from an old industrial gas tank. If you want to have a decent Mexican style breakfast nutritious enough to keep you satisfied until the evening go to ‘La Aldea’ (The Village). It’s on the 5th Av between 14th Street and 14th bis Street. Don’t you go to ‘La Ceiba’, 14th Street between 5th Av and 10th Av. The place advertises a breakfast buffet from 7:00 am to 11:30 for only MXN 140 –not worth it. The juices are canned and refrigerated, the food is poorly tasted, and if you arrive by 10:45 they tell you that you can come in but they will kick your ass in 45 minutes. Yes, the place looks nice from the outside, yes, there’s a line of hot girls waiting to get in (the place belongs to the expensive Hotel Tucán which provides the all-inclusive service to their guests), but unless you are going to try some ‘buffet game’ with some of the girls in there, forget it.
If you have traveled to Playa before, maybe you’d remember that just in the very corner of Juárez Av and the access to the ferry there was an old traditional Mexican rotisserie where you could buy a roasted chicken and a pound of rice for just MXN 70. Well, not anymore. The building was demolished and now you find a line of useless boutiques. When I got there three months ago, I just felt to my knees and began to cry.
Merida is a nice place to visit, but you are not going to find the same kind of activities. It’s an old colonial city with the dynamics of a small town. I wouldn’t recommend you to go.
There’s a small city called Valladolid, three hours driving from Playa, and in the way to Mérida. The place is gorgeous, (you feel you are taken two centuries ago) it has some ‘Cenotes’ for diving and you can try the exquisite Yucatán food, but nothing else. The place is just worth it one day. Now if you are willing to go outside Playa two or three days, people have told me about Holbox. The place is a small island with only three no paved streets with excellent diving tours and very popular among packers. Actually, I want to go there in December to check out everything I have been told.
The most important thing: Be sure to hit the 12th street clubs on these days: Friday 13th to Sunday 15th. It’s the Revolution Day long weekend in Mexico! There will be plenty of hot young Mexican pussy ready for action. So bad that you are not going to get on time for the Day of the Death long weekend!
With God's help, I'll conquer this terrible affliction.
By way of deception, thou shalt game women.
Diaboli virtus in lumbar est -The Devil's virtue is in his loins.