Cozumel beaches

[k2excursion]

I've done Paradise Beach twice, Chankanaab once, and Playa Mia once. Paradise Beach is the best! Free admission, $2 beach chairs, $12 wristband for the water toys/trampolines/kayaks. If you purchase this wristband, there is no expectation to purchase food or drink. They do expect you to buy $10 worth if you don't get the wristband, but they don't always enforce it or make it easily known. The cab ride is $13 one way for up to 4 people. 6-8 people was $28. The wristband for water toys includes the inflated slides that you can climb up and slide down. There's 3 of them now. No mountain/iceberg to climb anymore. And the wristband includes use of the kayaks, water trampolines, and whatever they call the board that you stand/kneel/sit on and row yourself. I tried it all. Plus, there's a ton of fish that hang out around the end of the pier. Great fish snorkeling!

 

Chankanaab also has some good snorkeling. $10 cab ride. The admission is around $20pp. No water toys, but they do have at least one trampoline.

 

Playa Mia has one inflated slide in the water. Their iceberg/mountain has also been removed. I did that through Carnival, before I realized that there were better options for much cheaper.

 

Some couples like Nachi Cocum. Not great for kids or the young at heart, and it's a little pricey. They do sometimes go over the 100 they claim to cap it at. They did on our day.

 

If one beach has seaweed and dirty water, they all will. All these beaches are lined up on the same side of the island, so they share the same waters. Except for Passion Island, which is an expensive trip.

[RWolver672]

When we stopped there in 2011 on the Dream, we bought an excursion through the ship for Paradise Beach. I don't remember the cost but it included a bus trip to the beach, and all the food and drinks you could consume. The beach loungers were also included. It was a great place but at the time, all of the sand had been washed away from the beach and you had to walk on sand bags over the rocks to get to sand on the bottom. The bags were slippery and lots of people were slipping off them. Once past the rocks, it was nice. One of the waiters told us that the hurricane the summer before had washed all the sand away.

 

There were several games being played all through the day. Musical chairs, football toss through a board with a hole in it, water balloon toss, etc. Everybody was having fun.

 

The water toys were extra. Never did them so I don't know what they were charging.

 

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[Teamv]

They accept credit cards, but there is a 20% CC fee - use cash

 

Thanks for including that, I wanted to mention that but forgot in my earlier post. Also, there is a 15% gratuity added to the bill and our waiter told us about this, so we adjusted our tip accordingly. He was great so we gave him a bit more. But we heard people on the ship say that they were not told about the automatic tip and therefore had tipped double. One was a large group with a combined bar and food tab and they were not happy. I guess they were having too much fun to check the bill carefully.

[lizjoemom]

one ncl cruise, we were taken to what i thought was the other side of the island, after visiting what they claimed was mayan ruins. expecting chicken itza, i think we got stonehenge from the spinal tap movie. :eek:

 

 

but i wish i knew where we were taken. it was absolutely beautiful. nice wide white sand beach, and beautiful water.

 

:)LOL! That is freakin hysterical!!!!:) You just made me crack up on what so far has been a pretty depressing day, Thanks!

[Herfnerd]

one ncl cruise, we were taken to what i thought was the other side of the island, after visiting what they claimed was mayan ruins. expecting chicken itza, i think we got stonehenge from the spinal tap movie. :eek:

 

 

but i wish i knew where we were taken. it was absolutely beautiful. nice wide white sand beach, and beautiful water.

 

 

In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...

 

Priceless!!

[k2excursion]

When we stopped there in 2011 on the Dream, we bought an excursion through the ship for Paradise Beach. I don't remember the cost but it included a bus trip to the beach, and all the food and drinks you could consume. The beach loungers were also included. It was a great place but at the time, all of the sand had been washed away from the beach and you had to walk on sand bags over the rocks to get to sand on the bottom. The bags were slippery and lots of people were slipping off them. Once past the rocks, it was nice. One of the waiters told us that the hurricane the summer before had washed all the sand away.

 

There were several games being played all through the day. Musical chairs, football toss through a board with a hole in it, water balloon toss, etc. Everybody was having fun.

 

The water toys were extra. Never did them so I don't know what they were charging.

 

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2901566610030186251jJIYIe

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2482630520030186251yuSbnk

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2546022080030186251kClEkm

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http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2671315460030186251KmMImx

 

Actually, you were at Playa Mia. It was $65 when I did it, more now. Great pics. Since I've been to both Playa Mia & Paradise Beach, I can tell that you were at Playa Mia. Paradise Beach would've been a little ways to the right of Playa Mia, when facing the ocean. There's a gap between the 2. At Playa Mia, the iceberg/mountain that can be climbed on (that's in your pics) has been removed, just like the one at Paradise Beach has been removed. I did your excursion at Playa Mia in 2005, and they didn't charge extra to climb on the iceberg then, at least for those who purchased the excursion through the ship. I guess things have changed. I was there right after a hurricane, and Playa Mia was one of the quickest to get rebuilt. If the sand was gone there, it was probably gone at all the beaches.

 

Paradise Beach easily comes out cheaper. I've spent less in 2 combined trips to Paradise than 1 Playa Mia excursion through the ship.