Booking Passion Island

[tiffyms02]

Hi everyone. I will be sailing to Cozumel in May on the Holiday and I would like to book my shore excursion. I want to do the Passion Island excursion, and the Carnival site says it's $78. However on the Passion Beach site it says it only costs $8 to enter and use the beach chairs and such. Am I missing something?? I understand that if I don't do it through Carnival I will have to get my on cab, but that is still significantly cheaper than their price. Does anyone have any info. about this? It would be greatly appreciated.

[daddydude]

You may be getting beaches mixed up. If I understand things right, Passion Island is a so-called "private island" used more or less exclusively by cruise passsengers, so you can't just take a taxi there. Maybe the Web site you looked at was for Paradise Beach, where you optionally pay $8 to use the beach toys (of course, transportation and lunch is on top of that, but your total is going to be way, way less than $78 unless you go snorkeling). Passion Island sounds awfully pricey to me, but maybe I'm missing something too.

[tiffyms02]

Daddydude- Thanks for the info. Maybe it is that Passion Island and Passion Beach are two different places. Either way, I'm not crazy about spending $78 to just go to the beach. I'll probably just wait until I get there to decide for sure - unless I hear anything else.