Scuba Club Cozumel

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Scuba club Cozumel, Mexico

Av R. Melgar Prol. S. Km 1.5 Cozumel, Q. Roo, Mexico 77600 | Full-board + 2 dives from $132++/ppn

IMPORTANT NOTE: Scuba Club Cozumel is shutting down operations on August 31, 2024. Read our article for full details The End of an Era: Scuba Club Cozumel to close its doors.

For great alternatives check out our list of Cozumel Dive Resorts, or contact us for more information & advice.

Scuba Club Cozumel is a diver-focused seafront resort offering various all-inclusive scuba diving and accommodation packages, for divers of all levels. The resort is also conveniently located within 3 minutes of walking distance to Dolphinaris Cozumel where you can swim with dolphins.

The resort itself features various types of accommodations, suited for single travelers and families alike. Their pool and restaurant are also located by the sea, so you can eat and relax after your dive while enjoying the view of the vast Caribbean sea.

For another great family dive destination, check out our guide to scuba diving Thailand.

Quick Information

No of Rooms: 60
Dive Center: On-site
Amenities: AC, pool, bar, restaurant, dive shop, private terraces, beach palapas, Nitrox and more
WiFi: Yes, free
Nearest International Airport: Cozumel International Airport
Airport shuttle: Yes, surcharge

How to Get There

Scuba Club Cozumel is located just past the southern end of San Miguel, the main town on the island. The location balances easy transfers from the airport, walks into town and access to the dive sites at the southern end of the island. Upon arriving at Cozumel International Airport (CZM), guests will take a shuttle van to the resort.

Dive Overview

Cozumel offers excellent reef diving and a diverse array of fish.

[Read More: Cozumel Dive Travel Guide]

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Accommodations

Types of Rooms, Amenities and Photos

Double Room & Bathroom

Family Room & Single King Room

Scuba Club Cozumel Room Overview

60 clean, comfortable rooms feature ceiling fans, hair dryers, alarm clocks, a small refrigerator, and terraces with beautiful views. Rooms are available in single, double or triple occupancy. King size beds are available, as well as rooms with two doubles. Larger family rooms have two doubles and an additional sitting area with a twin-size bed.

Finished in tile and stucco, they are ready for wet divers. Many of the rooms on the ground floor are just a few steps away from the beach. There are drying racks for dive suits on each terrace.

A few rooms have been remodeled to accommodate the needs of handicapped divers.

Since a diving vacation should also be relaxing, rooms do not have a TV or a telephone. There is free high-speed WiFi throughout the resort allowing online access 24 hours a day from the comfort of your own room or patio.

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Resort Facilities

Pool & Outdoor Seating

The Fat Grouper Grill Restaurant

Scuba Club Cozumel Features

Pool
Free wireless internet around the entire property
Phones for local/international calls
Fat Grouper restaurant and bar
Small library and TVs

Scuba Club Cozumel Food & Drinks

The Fat Grouper Restaurant and Bar offers indoor and outdoor dining.
All vacation packages include three hearty meals, starting with a buffet breakfast in the open-air downstairs restaurant.
Lunch is served as the dive boats return, and dinner is a sit-down affair in the upstairs dining room with a daily selection of fresh meat, poultry or seafood dishes.
Holidays and special occasions call for a Mexican fiesta with a full buffet and even a pinata on the beach.

Scuba Club Cozumel Activities

Diving
Hanging at the pool
Reading in a hammock
ATV Jungle Tour
Various Cozumel tours

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Packages & Rates

IMPORTANT NOTE: Scuba Club Cozumel is shutting down operations on August 31, 2024. For great alternatives check out our list of Cozumel Dive Resorts, or contact us for more information & advice.

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Dive Information

Dive Overview

The diving in Cozumel is comprised primarily of drift dives along beautiful coral reefs. Two-tank morning dives are standard, generally starting with a deeper reef in the Palancar region of the Marine Park. Here divers will descend to 60-120 feet to drift along massive walls, explore swim throughs and channels and take in all the colorful soft coral formations.

Diving in Cozumel The second dive is typically on a shallower reef closer to the resort with depth in the 30-60 range, where ambient light mixes with coral heads and gardens of sponges, gorgonians and great fish life. Beach dives present underwater photographers with the time to search for critters with their macro lens. Visibility range is typically 100ft+ year-round and water temperature is between 75- 85F. The weather is tropical with little seasonal variation.

Divers will find eagle rays in the winter months, reef sharks in the summer months and turtles and nurse sharks year round.

Cozumel is home to the Splendid Toadfish, which can be found under ledges. Grunts, parrotfish, black grouper, angelfish, tangs, moray eels, lobsters and much other marine life can be found on the reefs in Cozumel. There are also juvenile drum fish, seahorses, anemone fish, colorful nudibranchs, arrow crabs and many other small critters.

Cozumel Photo / Video resources:

Editing your underwater photos
Paralenz dive camera
Best underwater video cameras

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Dive Center Information

Scuba Club Cozumel Dive Center Overview

Scuba Cozumel is located in-house and is a 5-star training facility with full-service dive operation, including rental gear, repair shop and classroom for dive instruction. Divers are assigned to a boat and divemaster on their first day and will keep that combination throughout their stay, allowing the crew to learn not only everyone's name, but their style and preferences for the dive day.

Dive Center Features

The resort features two sets of personal dive gear lockers (bring a lock), one right next to the shop and one right next to the beach dive entrance, making it easy to carry personal gear to the boats or hop in the water for a beach dive. Each of these areas has an outdoor shower and large rinse tanks for gear.

Scuba Cozumel's custom-built dive boats accommodate from 10 to 20 divers, with freshwater rinse tanks for camera gear.

Divemasters are assigned no more than 6 divers and will have their group jump in the water separately to ensure that each small group has the reef to themselves.

A standard dive package includes morning two-tank boat dives with unlimited afternoon shore diving, along with optional afternoon or night boat dives.

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Other Information

Practical Information

Electricity: 110 and 120 Volts
Time zone: UTC-6
Languages: Spanish and English
Local Currency: MXN (Mexican Peso)
Accept credit card?: Yes, Master Card & Visa

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Hawkeye54

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Visited on 01/2012 - Submitted on 02/27/2014

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jlyle

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Twenty-five years ago, when my wife and I first learned to dive, I asked several been-there-done-that divers about where they would return to if they could only back one more time. Nearly all of them said "Cozumel". Since then, we, too, have become been-there-done-that divers. We’ve dived all over the world, Truk (twice), Palau (twice), Yap, Hawaii (twice),Florida, North Carolina, Coco (twice), Galapagos (twice), Turks & Caicos, Fernando de Noronha, Papua New Guinea, Borneo, Thailand, Myanmar, the Maldives, the Seychelles, Indonesia (multiple times), Southern California (where we live, many times), Baja, and Cozumel (more than thirty times!).

Yes, that's not a typo; we've made many, many trips to Cozumel and many of those trips were for two or three weeks. I've logged over 1000 dives on Cozumel's reefs. For those of you who share my affliction, you understand. For those of you who don't, it's not hard to explain. Yes, there are better places to see manta rays, hammerhead sharks, wreck dive, and find exotic creatures in the muck, but no other place is as convenient to get to; is as affordable; and has such consistently clear, warm water filled with a kaleidoscope of healthy marine life.

Each year we stay at Scuba Club Cozumel, an all-inclusive resort several blocks south of town. Scuba Club is a small, dedicated dive resort. There are many good things to say about this place: friendly staff, great food, ambience, charming rooms, no phones, no TV's, competent dive guides, fast boats, and unlimited shore diving in front of the hotel. I'm afraid to say too many good things about SCC for fear that it will become too popular; it's the best bargain in town. When we return and first walk through the front gate, Sofia greets us with "welcome home", and we truly feel like family.

Two-tank boat dives leave from the hotel's pier about 8:00am for a run to the famous southern reefs, Colombia, Palancar, Paso del Cedral, Santa Rosa, etc. The walls or low coral reefs are home to turtles, barracuda, nurse sharks, colorful tropical fish, and the occasional eagle ray.

The previous reviewers have done a great job of describing Scuba Club Cozumel. There isn't much I can add other than the shore diving in front of the hotel is wonderful. While not the coral/sponge reef found futher south and reached by boat, the pier and artificial reef in front is home to many small creatures. Easy in/out via stairs, the water is only twenty feet deep. Normally, the current runs south to north, so we begin our dive into the current, moving slowing, looking for things to photograph, and then turning for home and drifting back when the tank pressure is less than half. You can easily do a two-hour dive on a single Al-80 tank. Want to do another shore dive? Take another tank and repeat to your heart's content. Night shore dives are good opportunities to see octopus and other creatures of the dark out hunting.

I have posted many trip reports and scads of pictures on my web page; enjoy!

http://chemistry.csudh.edu/faculty/jim/Jim'sWeb_Page.htm

We are going back in August for three more, wonderful weeks at SCC.

Visited on 02/2014 - Submitted on 02/21/2014

beusbeus

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Cozumel is a fun place to dive and it is Drift diving paradise but it's also a tourist trap especially if you are obviously not a local. Prices are quite expensive and the service isn't that great because they know that they will get a flock of divers regardless of your business. The food is catered to the American crowd and if often tasteless. The buffet might make you walk across the street to a local tacos shop where you would probably get a much better meal. The dives are nice but make sure you bring a few bottles of water before climbing on the boat because most dive boats don't even carry drinking water. The staff does try to cater to what the divers want and will often ask you where you would like to dive which made the diving a little more fun and exciting once you knew which dive spots you like the best. The one wreck dive they offer (The C-53 wreck) is a must see and has a lot of sea life with easy entries and a relatively shallow depth for a wreck (between 60-80 ft)

Visited on 12/2012 - Submitted on 03/02/2014

foley.lauraliz

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After teaching my dad to dive, the two of us went to SCUBA Club Cozumel (SCC) for an extended weekend. This was over two years ago and we both still talk about the trip...A LOT! Sure, the dives were gorgeous, but it was the friendly staff, laid back atmosphere, and delicious food that made the trip so memorable.

The great thing about SCC is that it is a true DIVE resort. SCC is close enough (2 miles or less, we walked) to shopping and partying if that is what you're looking for, but far enough removed to create a calm and relaxing environment. They have unlimited shore diving and their own small pier where you meet the boats daily. When diving, they divide the groups up by experience and skill level, so that everybody in the group is relatively similar in their capabilities, plus you end up going out on the boat with the same people day after day and really get to know some fellow divers.

The staff was extremely helpful and accommodating! They helped look after my dad (whose has little dive experience), and when I lost my camera housing to the sea, Geiser spent the remainder of the dive helping me search for it. I was dying to see seahorses, and when I expressed this to my DM he ensured that I saw some :) They offer many options for night and wreck diving for more skilled divers, and at a good price.

The food was killer and the margaritas were cheap. They have a nice row of hammocks and many places to sit and enjoy the view. The room itself was nothing to write home about, but also have no complaints. I wasn't there to sit in a room.

I have since been back for a shore dive, and have recommended SCC to many friends...all of which who were al thrilled as we were. I'd go back time and time again,

Visited on 03/2012 - Submitted on 03/03/2014

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Chandler, AZ
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Scuba Club Cozumel is a quiet little hotel on the sea just south of the main town area so it's an easy walk to town & you don't need to spend money on a taxi. The rooms are nice & clean but probably could do with an update. The hotel staff are all very nice & helpful. The food is good but nothing exceptional-- get the breakfast & lunch plan & go into town for dinner. Most of the rooms have nice ocean views. The balcony in our room was rather small & the AC unit dripped condensation on you if you weren't watching or didn't turn it off soon enough before you decided to sit on the balcony. There was a small refrigerator & the room was spacious & clean. The dive staff are very professional & skilled & watch their divers, unlike other places I've been. They have several larger boats so minor choppy seas are not an issue as they can be at a smaller operation with only a small boat. There are lockers to store your gear by the dive shop & shore diving is available from the beach area. I spent 1 week there with a friend (2010) at the hotel & then came back there on another trip as a solo diver (2012) when the tiny boat/choppy seas problem resulted in no diving at another shop at a different hotel.

Visited on 03/2012 - Submitted on 04/02/2014

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