Senior Editor
Beat: Beach Clubs, Best Time to Visit, Cruise Excursions
Ana Lucía has edited Mexican Caribbean travel coverage for eleven years and runs the practical pages on this site: taxi zone fares, park admissions, ferry schedules and what a cruise day can realistically hold. She checks a tariff board or a port notice before she checks anyone's marketing, and she writes the prices as bands because they move.
4 guides · 3 news posts
Last updatedAna's most recent update to this site was .
Long-form
Reported guides to Cozumel, each with its own publication and last-updated date.
Guide
Most people who fly to Cozumel do not fly to Cozumel. They fly to Cancún, drive an hour south and take a boat, and that chain has three separate places to lose an afternoon.
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Guide
The price is not what makes people feel fleeced at a Cozumel beach club. Booking the wrong model is. There are three of them and they suit completely different days.
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Guide
You do not have a day in Cozumel. You have the gap between the gangway opening and all-aboard, minus two taxi rides. Everything below is built on that subtraction.
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Guide
One road, two coasts and two completely different holidays. Understand the island's shape first and every other decision on a Cozumel trip gets easier.
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News desk
Shorter, dated pieces about what is changing in Cozumel.
How this was written. News published under Ana Lucía Ferrer's byline was drafted by machine from primary sources — operator notices, government and municipal releases, published schedules — and every factual claim in it was matched to one of those sources before it published. A Cozumel Guide editor can change or pull any of it. Our editorial standards.
Seasonal
The difference between a February week and a September week here is not only money. It is how many ships are in, how busy Palancar is, and what is shut.
Travel alert
The season is six months long and the real risk sits in three of them. Cozumel is one of the first calls a cruise line drops, and that is the system working.
Beach update
The island shelters its own developed coast. That single geographic fact is the most useful thing anyone choosing between Cozumel and the mainland can know.