Cancun recomendations???

Thanks!!


"Reef Fish" <large_nassua_grouper@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1180535372.201292.297240@w5g2000hsg.googlegro ups.com...
> On May 27, 11:13 am, "Buhda" <akha...@houston.rr.com> wrote:
>> We will be traveling to Cancun next week and staying at the Moon Palace.
>> Having never been to Cancun we'd like some recomendations.
>>
>> 1) Dive operations: We've tried to contact Solo Buceo by email with no
>> reply
>> after 4 days. So looking for something else.
>>
>> 2) Dive sites that we could request.
>
> Since you have already booked the hotel at Cancun and you probably
> have non-diving spouse or other companisons who don't dive except
> you, any suggestion to stay in Cozumel would only show the lack of
> good sense of the responder.
>
> There is nothing worth diving in Cancun compared to most of the
> dives in Cozumel.
>
> You can book by phone OR email with the Sea Horse Dive shop,
> which has a shop in both Cancun and Cozumel.
>
> There was a thread in 2005 on "Caucun vs Cozumel" in which
> I posted about the Caballito del Caribe operation which has
> daily package for CANCUN divers that included transportation
> from Cancun, two-tank dives at 10 am, lunch, and transportation
> back to Caucun. That's the shop I dive with regularly and highly
> recomend it to anyone.
>
> The post in 2005 is in the thread
> http://tinyurl.com/3eyep9
>
> I dived with Dan Bacruk and Greg Mossman and their spouse/
> girl friend at the regular 10 am two tank dives.
>
> http://www.seahorsecozumel.com/default.html
>
> This is their webpage which has EVERYTHING you want to
> know about the shop, including all the dive packages from
> Cancun (and Cozumel), their phone/fax numbers and email
> for booking.
>
> Click "Scuba Diving" on the Home page and you'll see
> the costs/packages and all the dive boats of the shop.
>
> It's one of hte shops whose dive masters have briefings
> that included "Don't follow him" (while identifying me)
> because I solo to 200 fsw on almost every first tank
> dive -- thus seing the prestine parts of all the Cozumel
> reefs that are rarely seen by anyone.
>
> -- Reef Fish Bob.
>
>
>
>
>

Thanks!!


"Reef Fish" <large_nassua_grouper@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1180535372.201292.297240@w5g2000hsg.googlegro ups.com...
> On May 27, 11:13 am, "Buhda" <akha...@houston.rr.com> wrote:
>> We will be traveling to Cancun next week and staying at the Moon Palace.
>> Having never been to Cancun we'd like some recomendations.
>>
>> 1) Dive operations: We've tried to contact Solo Buceo by email with no
>> reply
>> after 4 days. So looking for something else.
>>
>> 2) Dive sites that we could request.
>
> Since you have already booked the hotel at Cancun and you probably
> have non-diving spouse or other companisons who don't dive except
> you, any suggestion to stay in Cozumel would only show the lack of
> good sense of the responder.
>
> There is nothing worth diving in Cancun compared to most of the
> dives in Cozumel.
>
> You can book by phone OR email with the Sea Horse Dive shop,
> which has a shop in both Cancun and Cozumel.
>
> There was a thread in 2005 on "Caucun vs Cozumel" in which
> I posted about the Caballito del Caribe operation which has
> daily package for CANCUN divers that included transportation
> from Cancun, two-tank dives at 10 am, lunch, and transportation
> back to Caucun. That's the shop I dive with regularly and highly
> recomend it to anyone.
>
> The post in 2005 is in the thread
> http://tinyurl.com/3eyep9
>
> I dived with Dan Bacruk and Greg Mossman and their spouse/
> girl friend at the regular 10 am two tank dives.
>
> http://www.seahorsecozumel.com/default.html
>
> This is their webpage which has EVERYTHING you want to
> know about the shop, including all the dive packages from
> Cancun (and Cozumel), their phone/fax numbers and email
> for booking.
>
> Click "Scuba Diving" on the Home page and you'll see
> the costs/packages and all the dive boats of the shop.
>
> It's one of hte shops whose dive masters have briefings
> that included "Don't follow him" (while identifying me)
> because I solo to 200 fsw on almost every first tank
> dive -- thus seing the prestine parts of all the Cozumel
> reefs that are rarely seen by anyone.
>
> -- Reef Fish Bob.
>
>
>
>
>

Thanks!!


"Reef Fish" <large_nassua_grouper@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1180535372.201292.297240@w5g2000hsg.googlegro ups.com...
> On May 27, 11:13 am, "Buhda" <akha...@houston.rr.com> wrote:
>> We will be traveling to Cancun next week and staying at the Moon Palace.
>> Having never been to Cancun we'd like some recomendations.
>>
>> 1) Dive operations: We've tried to contact Solo Buceo by email with no
>> reply
>> after 4 days. So looking for something else.
>>
>> 2) Dive sites that we could request.
>
> Since you have already booked the hotel at Cancun and you probably
> have non-diving spouse or other companisons who don't dive except
> you, any suggestion to stay in Cozumel would only show the lack of
> good sense of the responder.
>
> There is nothing worth diving in Cancun compared to most of the
> dives in Cozumel.
>
> You can book by phone OR email with the Sea Horse Dive shop,
> which has a shop in both Cancun and Cozumel.
>
> There was a thread in 2005 on "Caucun vs Cozumel" in which
> I posted about the Caballito del Caribe operation which has
> daily package for CANCUN divers that included transportation
> from Cancun, two-tank dives at 10 am, lunch, and transportation
> back to Caucun. That's the shop I dive with regularly and highly
> recomend it to anyone.
>
> The post in 2005 is in the thread
> http://tinyurl.com/3eyep9
>
> I dived with Dan Bacruk and Greg Mossman and their spouse/
> girl friend at the regular 10 am two tank dives.
>
> http://www.seahorsecozumel.com/default.html
>
> This is their webpage which has EVERYTHING you want to
> know about the shop, including all the dive packages from
> Cancun (and Cozumel), their phone/fax numbers and email
> for booking.
>
> Click "Scuba Diving" on the Home page and you'll see
> the costs/packages and all the dive boats of the shop.
>
> It's one of hte shops whose dive masters have briefings
> that included "Don't follow him" (while identifying me)
> because I solo to 200 fsw on almost every first tank
> dive -- thus seing the prestine parts of all the Cozumel
> reefs that are rarely seen by anyone.
>
> -- Reef Fish Bob.
>
>
>
>
>

Thanks!!


"Reef Fish" <large_nassua_grouper@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1180535372.201292.297240@w5g2000hsg.googlegro ups.com...
> On May 27, 11:13 am, "Buhda" <akha...@houston.rr.com> wrote:
>> We will be traveling to Cancun next week and staying at the Moon Palace.
>> Having never been to Cancun we'd like some recomendations.
>>
>> 1) Dive operations: We've tried to contact Solo Buceo by email with no
>> reply
>> after 4 days. So looking for something else.
>>
>> 2) Dive sites that we could request.
>
> Since you have already booked the hotel at Cancun and you probably
> have non-diving spouse or other companisons who don't dive except
> you, any suggestion to stay in Cozumel would only show the lack of
> good sense of the responder.
>
> There is nothing worth diving in Cancun compared to most of the
> dives in Cozumel.
>
> You can book by phone OR email with the Sea Horse Dive shop,
> which has a shop in both Cancun and Cozumel.
>
> There was a thread in 2005 on "Caucun vs Cozumel" in which
> I posted about the Caballito del Caribe operation which has
> daily package for CANCUN divers that included transportation
> from Cancun, two-tank dives at 10 am, lunch, and transportation
> back to Caucun. That's the shop I dive with regularly and highly
> recomend it to anyone.
>
> The post in 2005 is in the thread
> http://tinyurl.com/3eyep9
>
> I dived with Dan Bacruk and Greg Mossman and their spouse/
> girl friend at the regular 10 am two tank dives.
>
> http://www.seahorsecozumel.com/default.html
>
> This is their webpage which has EVERYTHING you want to
> know about the shop, including all the dive packages from
> Cancun (and Cozumel), their phone/fax numbers and email
> for booking.
>
> Click "Scuba Diving" on the Home page and you'll see
> the costs/packages and all the dive boats of the shop.
>
> It's one of hte shops whose dive masters have briefings
> that included "Don't follow him" (while identifying me)
> because I solo to 200 fsw on almost every first tank
> dive -- thus seing the prestine parts of all the Cozumel
> reefs that are rarely seen by anyone.
>
> -- Reef Fish Bob.
>
>
>
>
>

Thus spake -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> :

>"Buhda" <akha...@houston.rr.com> wrote:
>> We will be traveling to Cancun next week and staying at the Moon Palace.
>> Having never been to Cancun we'd like some recomendations.
>>
>> 1) Dive operations: We've tried to contact Solo Buceo by email with no reply
>> after 4 days. So looking for something else.
>
>PC's are vulnerable to crashing and malware. Try the phone, or try
>someone else.

In general, I communicate with most of my out of country vendors by
phone or fax. I speak Spanish, so that helps. But faxes are fairly
reliable. Almost every hotel Europe, no matter how small, has a fax
machine. They may not be able to translate the fax right away, but
they can in a few hours. I also have access to some profs at the
local community college who will translate for me cheap.

Email outside the US is unreliable. Particularly to "third world"
destinations. Mexico may not be third world (MAY NOT), but some
locations have third world communication.

>
>
>> 2) Dive sites that we could request.
>
>I think that the general opinion of most here would be to skip Cancun
>and hop the ferry to go dive over on Cozumel.

ferry Cozumel ferry drinking

Probably the best order to do that in,

>
>
>-hh
--
dillon

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but I've never
seen a .sig beat a Sig.

Thus spake -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> :

>"Buhda" <akha...@houston.rr.com> wrote:
>> We will be traveling to Cancun next week and staying at the Moon Palace.
>> Having never been to Cancun we'd like some recomendations.
>>
>> 1) Dive operations: We've tried to contact Solo Buceo by email with no reply
>> after 4 days. So looking for something else.
>
>PC's are vulnerable to crashing and malware. Try the phone, or try
>someone else.

In general, I communicate with most of my out of country vendors by
phone or fax. I speak Spanish, so that helps. But faxes are fairly
reliable. Almost every hotel Europe, no matter how small, has a fax
machine. They may not be able to translate the fax right away, but
they can in a few hours. I also have access to some profs at the
local community college who will translate for me cheap.

Email outside the US is unreliable. Particularly to "third world"
destinations. Mexico may not be third world (MAY NOT), but some
locations have third world communication.

>
>
>> 2) Dive sites that we could request.
>
>I think that the general opinion of most here would be to skip Cancun
>and hop the ferry to go dive over on Cozumel.

ferry Cozumel ferry drinking

Probably the best order to do that in,

>
>
>-hh
--
dillon

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but I've never
seen a .sig beat a Sig.

Thus spake -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> :

>"Buhda" <akha...@houston.rr.com> wrote:
>> We will be traveling to Cancun next week and staying at the Moon Palace.
>> Having never been to Cancun we'd like some recomendations.
>>
>> 1) Dive operations: We've tried to contact Solo Buceo by email with no reply
>> after 4 days. So looking for something else.
>
>PC's are vulnerable to crashing and malware. Try the phone, or try
>someone else.

In general, I communicate with most of my out of country vendors by
phone or fax. I speak Spanish, so that helps. But faxes are fairly
reliable. Almost every hotel Europe, no matter how small, has a fax
machine. They may not be able to translate the fax right away, but
they can in a few hours. I also have access to some profs at the
local community college who will translate for me cheap.

Email outside the US is unreliable. Particularly to "third world"
destinations. Mexico may not be third world (MAY NOT), but some
locations have third world communication.

>
>
>> 2) Dive sites that we could request.
>
>I think that the general opinion of most here would be to skip Cancun
>and hop the ferry to go dive over on Cozumel.

ferry Cozumel ferry drinking

Probably the best order to do that in,

>
>
>-hh
--
dillon

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but I've never
seen a .sig beat a Sig.

Thus spake -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> :

>"Buhda" <akha...@houston.rr.com> wrote:
>> We will be traveling to Cancun next week and staying at the Moon Palace.
>> Having never been to Cancun we'd like some recomendations.
>>
>> 1) Dive operations: We've tried to contact Solo Buceo by email with no reply
>> after 4 days. So looking for something else.
>
>PC's are vulnerable to crashing and malware. Try the phone, or try
>someone else.

In general, I communicate with most of my out of country vendors by
phone or fax. I speak Spanish, so that helps. But faxes are fairly
reliable. Almost every hotel Europe, no matter how small, has a fax
machine. They may not be able to translate the fax right away, but
they can in a few hours. I also have access to some profs at the
local community college who will translate for me cheap.

Email outside the US is unreliable. Particularly to "third world"
destinations. Mexico may not be third world (MAY NOT), but some
locations have third world communication.

>
>
>> 2) Dive sites that we could request.
>
>I think that the general opinion of most here would be to skip Cancun
>and hop the ferry to go dive over on Cozumel.

ferry Cozumel ferry drinking

Probably the best order to do that in,

>
>
>-hh
--
dillon

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but I've never
seen a .sig beat a Sig.

Thus spake -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> :

>"Buhda" <akha...@houston.rr.com> wrote:
>> We will be traveling to Cancun next week and staying at the Moon Palace.
>> Having never been to Cancun we'd like some recomendations.
>>
>> 1) Dive operations: We've tried to contact Solo Buceo by email with no reply
>> after 4 days. So looking for something else.
>
>PC's are vulnerable to crashing and malware. Try the phone, or try
>someone else.

In general, I communicate with most of my out of country vendors by
phone or fax. I speak Spanish, so that helps. But faxes are fairly
reliable. Almost every hotel Europe, no matter how small, has a fax
machine. They may not be able to translate the fax right away, but
they can in a few hours. I also have access to some profs at the
local community college who will translate for me cheap.

Email outside the US is unreliable. Particularly to "third world"
destinations. Mexico may not be third world (MAY NOT), but some
locations have third world communication.

>
>
>> 2) Dive sites that we could request.
>
>I think that the general opinion of most here would be to skip Cancun
>and hop the ferry to go dive over on Cozumel.

ferry Cozumel ferry drinking

Probably the best order to do that in,

>
>
>-hh
--
dillon

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but I've never
seen a .sig beat a Sig.

Dillon Pyron <dmpyronINVA...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Email outside the US is unreliable. Particularly to "third world"
> destinations. Mexico may not be third world (MAY NOT), but some
> locations have third world communication.

I've noticed that a pretty good clue is when a business uses something
like a hotmail account. IIRC, I have a photograph of an airport where
the email contact for paying your landing fees is precisely that.


> >> 2) Dive sites that we could request.
>
> >I think that the general opinion of most here would be to skip Cancun
> >and hop the ferry to go dive over on Cozumel.
>
> ferry Cozumel ferry drinking
>
> Probably the best order to do that in,

It looks as if it really would result in a modestly long day trip,
although probably not one that would be longer or worse than going out
to see some of the Mayan ruins. Clearly, not something you would want
to do daily.


-hh