cancun operator/ dive company reccomendations

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Cara Ballantine - 05 Jun 2005 06:02 GMT

We are going to cancun for our honeymoon next month and was hoping to get
reccomendations for who to dive through. We have looked online and have no
idea how good companys are. We have had bad experiences with dive operators
in Hawaii and do not want that again. We are going ot do a 4 or 5 day
package and do not want to be disapointed. Some companys we have looked at
their web sites are manta divers, diablo divers, cancun divers. There are
so many .Any reccomendations would be apprecialted

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Greg Mossman - 05 Jun 2005 08:13 GMT

> We are going to cancun for our honeymoon next month and was hoping to get
> reccomendations for who to dive through. We have looked online and have no
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> their web sites are manta divers, diablo divers, cancun divers. There are
> so many .Any reccomendations would be apprecialted

I thought Manta Divers did a fine job. That doesn't mean you won't be
disappointed by the diving there.

Recommendation: Take the ferry over to Cozumel at least one day.

Recommendation #2: Honeymoon somewhere else.

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Dan Bracuk - 05 Jun 2005 13:12 GMT

"Cara Ballantine via ScubaMonster.com" <forum@nospam.ScubaMonster.com>
pounded away at his keyboard resulting in:

: We have had bad experiences with dive operators
:in Hawaii and do not want that again. We are going ot do a 4 or 5 day
:package and do not want to be disapointed.

What bad experiences? What you consider bad, others may consider good
and give you a recommendation based on their perception of good, not
yours.

Dan Bracuk
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Keith - 05 Jun 2005 14:19 GMT

>We are going to cancun for our honeymoon next month and was hoping to get
>reccomendations for who to dive through. We have looked online and have no
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>their web sites are manta divers, diablo divers, cancun divers. There are
>so many .Any reccomendations would be apprecialted

The two that I've used have been Scuba Cancun and Solo Buceo.

I was impressed with Scuba Cancun in that they wouldn't let me make a
rather expensive cave dive on my first ocean scuba trip due to lack of
experience. Though I was disappointed at the time, looking back, I
appreciate that they weren't just looking to make a buck by allowing
me to put myself at risk.

The downside is that they are on the lagoon side, which means an extra
20 minute or so boat ride to get to the reefs.

Solo Buceo is/was the contracted shop for the hotel that I was staying
at. The Dive Masters that they had on staff a few years ago were
great and catered to the newer divers. Those of us with more
experience (this was a few years after the first Scuba Cancun trip),
were led by another DM.

They are also on the ocean side, so the trips to the reefs are much
quicker.

Both had smaller boats, and I don't think I ever dived with more than
10 people on each boat, if that many.

I agree with someone else who said to take the ferry over to Cozumel
on day. I think most of the scuba operators in Cancun can arrange a
trip with all transportation. I booked one of these through Scuba
Cancun one year and they took care of all transportation to and from
the hotel down to Playa, the ferry ride over, and lunch after the
dives. Two years ago, this was about $125US for two tanks in Coz.
I'm sure you can do better, but this was extremely convenient.

Okay, I'll stop typing now.

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