Costa Maya

We're porting in Costa Maya for a day while on a NCL cruise in later this month. Any suggestions on diving there?

Where are you docking? Costa Maya is sort of like saying you're
visiting California or the Riviera.

JS wrote:
> We're porting in Costa Maya for a day while on a NCL cruise in later
> this month. Any suggestions on diving there?

I believe the cruise ship lines are now referring to Majahual as "Costa Maya."
It's questionable if you will have time to dive Chinchorro Banks but the diving
in the area is interesting.

JK
http://www.mxtravel.com/xcalak.html


>Subject: Re: Costa Maya
>From: DrYak DrYak@nospam.com
>Date: 12/31/03 6:34 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <U2JIb.15378$WQ3.3612@lakeread05>
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>Where are you docking? Costa Maya is sort of like saying you're
>visiting California or the Riviera.
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>JS wrote:
>> We're porting in Costa Maya for a day while on a NCL cruise in later
>> this month. Any suggestions on diving there?
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I just got back from a HAL cruise Dec 30-Jan 3. We stayed in Costa Maya. I
didn't dive, but I did snorkel. [I am a certified diver. I've been diving in
the Cayman Islands, Kona (Hawaii) and Maui. However, I was traveling with
non-divers and wanted to spend the time with them, so I just went snorkeling
on this trip.]

Here's my $0.02:
- The coral was great. Easily the best coral/fish life of the trip (Key
West, Cozumel, Costa Maya, and HAL's island in the Bahamas). Of all the
places I visited, I wanted most to go back here & go diving.
- I often see people advising "make your own arrangements" to divers on
large cruise ships. After having had my first experience being on a cruise,
I can see why. However, Costa Maya is so small & so poor, that I doubt there
is anyone else to make arrangements with. It's not like Cozumel or Key West.
There are the schlocky tourist shops at the end of the dock and then what
looks like a lot of jungle. If you do find a dive op, I'd be interested in
hearing about it because it looks like an interesting place to go on a
diving vacation.

If I had it to do over again, I'd definitely dive there.

i just got back from Akumel a few days ago (60 miles south of cancun). you are
right, the coral is in great shape, fish life is good, but not a lot of big
things. i dove with Aquatech and stayed at their Villas LaRosa.
http://www.cenotes.com/
elliott

Elaine May wrote:

> I just got back from a HAL cruise Dec 30-Jan 3. We stayed in Costa Maya. I
> didn't dive, but I did snorkel. [I am a certified diver. I've been diving in
> the Cayman Islands, Kona (Hawaii) and Maui. However, I was traveling with
> non-divers and wanted to spend the time with them, so I just went snorkeling
> on this trip.]
>
> Here's my $0.02:
> - The coral was great. Easily the best coral/fish life of the trip (Key
> West, Cozumel, Costa Maya, and HAL's island in the Bahamas). Of all the
> places I visited, I wanted most to go back here & go diving.
> - I often see people advising "make your own arrangements" to divers on
> large cruise ships. After having had my first experience being on a cruise,
> I can see why. However, Costa Maya is so small & so poor, that I doubt there
> is anyone else to make arrangements with. It's not like Cozumel or Key West.
> There are the schlocky tourist shops at the end of the dock and then what
> looks like a lot of jungle. If you do find a dive op, I'd be interested in
> hearing about it because it looks like an interesting place to go on a
> diving vacation.
>
> If I had it to do over again, I'd definitely dive there.

--
Elliott S. Goldstein
School of Life Science
Cellular, Molecular and Bioscience Program
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4501
phone: 480-965-7176
fax: 480-965-6899
e.goldstein@asu.edu