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10 long-form guides to Cozumel, each one signed and dated so you can see how current it is. They answer the questions that do not fit on a listings page: how the place is laid out, what you will actually be charged for, and which trade-offs are worth making.
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Half of Cozumel has no hotels, no dive shops, no piers and almost no people. It also has the strongest undertow on the island. Both of those are the same fact.
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Half of Cozumel has no hotels, no dive shops, no piers and almost no people. It also has the strongest undertow on the island. Both of those are the same fact.
11 min readSofía Ruelas
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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.
10 min readAna Lucía Ferrer
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The open-top jeep is the island signature and the island nuisance. Two things decide whether the day goes well: the insurance you agreed to, and where you last filled up.
11 min readSofía Ruelas
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March is the answer for most people. The interesting part is everything that makes the other eleven months cheaper, emptier, wetter or occasionally impossible.
11 min readDiego Marín
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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.
10 min readAna Lucía Ferrer
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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.
10 min readAna Lucía Ferrer
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The good news is that Cozumel's best snorkelling is shallow enough to see from the surface. The catch is that half of it is only reachable by boat.
10 min readDiego Marín
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The current does the swimming. What it does not do is choose your sites, pace your week, or stop you booking a wall dive you are not ready for. That part is yours.
11 min readDiego Marín
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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.
12 min readAna Lucía Ferrer
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Cozumel is an easy island for families on one side and a genuinely dangerous one on the other. The age bands below are really about which water a child is ready for.
11 min readSofía Ruelas