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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photochick

Chandler, AZ
United States

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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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Huntington Beach, CA
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Prior to my trip to Scuba Club Cozumel I had heard rave reviews from several buddies who had made multiple trips to SCC. They descriptions had set the bar pretty high so I was expecting an amazing experience and I wasn't disappointed.
Our room was spacious and lovely and with more than adequate space for two photographers to lay out and prepare their equipment and charge batteries. Food at Scuba Club was very good. Mornings were a buffet affair with enough diversity and quantity to satisfy most any taste and the served to order dinners were quite excellent.

But food was not the reason we came to SCC - it was for the diving and again we were not disappointed. Like most dive facilities in the area the reefs at Palancar and the drop-offs to the north are the usual dive locations and they are just amazing with a diversity of critters to keep an UW photog very happy. For nearly all of our dives we enjoyed minimum visibility of 50+ feet, often very much more and water temp of 82°. Palancar Caves and Palancar Bricks were favorites as was Punta Tunich, the wreck of the C-53 and Paradise Reef. Sea horses, morays, eagle rays, barracuda, turtles, grouper and more made every dive something to savor.

We had weather one day that kept the dive boats at the dock and we spent the day very happily diving the House Reef in the rain. Primarily for the macro shooter, the House Reef is amazing enough to be a first choice and not just a fallback dive. Take the time to cruise the warm, shallow waters and discover the myriad creatures willing to have their pictures taken.

So, to sum up, Scuba Club Cozumel is a quality diver's resort. I stress the diver part of that. Though there is a pool and non-divers can certainly find enough to stay entertained, SCC is primarily a resort for divers and many hold the view that is is THE best dive resort in Cozumel and with the experience we had, I certainly wouldn't argue with that point of view.

Visited on 07/2013 - Submitted on 05/27/2014

marcush

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We typically try to go to dive resorts pretty far off the beaten path, but there is an associated cost. When I saw the $542 deal I jumped on it for a budget friendly getaway. The deal was for the month of Oct, and our trip extended pact 10/31, so we got charged full price for the second half of our trip. A short while after booking the sale was extended into Nov however we got no such refund/comp. Frustrating, but understandable, those were the terms of the sale.
Everything is reasonably well organized in terms of the hotel, nothing special here The rooms are typical Mexico, nothing luxurious but nothing you can complain about. Our room was against the road and the restaurant, which is very loud, I suggest pushing for a room closer to the water away from the kitchen.
The food was very good, we ate there every meal and had no complaints at all. The wait staff was generally friendly and eager to help. The management, however, was extremely rude. Despite staying there for 7 nights, the owner(?) or manager grilled me on my room number several times rather unpleasantly. They have a strict no outsiders policy. If you are not staying at the hotel, you do not eat there, even if you dove with them that morning. This, combined with a very poorly handled incident where another tourist who dove but did not stay at the hotel ate at the restaurant and got called out very publicly by the manager, got openly charged for things he didnt eat, then the manager demanded that another guest this guy didnt even know pay for his bill. This left a sour taste. This is where my 2 star for accommodations comes from, so I dont negatively review the food, which was very good.

The diving was great, warm water (skipped the wet suit on most dives), good visibility, surprisingly healthy coral despite the daily hoards diving and pretty lively fish live. I was surprised how healthy the reefs are given the 17+ weekly cruise ships and fleet of dive boats migrating every morning. This is not a place of solitude.
The dive center is a separate business who shares ground with the hotel. This is a no frills zero hand holding dive op. They run like a machine pushing out loads of divers on 5+ boats every morning. The boats are full, but not overly and dive guide to guest ratio never exceeded 1:7.
A few notes:
-bring a pad lock, they dont sell them and you need one for your locker, this wasnt drilled into me enough before we got there
-dont expect the dive master to get to know you and take you on the type of dive you'd like. They go where they've chosen for the day. We asked about wall diving a couple times and got ignored
-Nitrox is $10/tank. This is pretty steep as far as Im concerned so we skipped it. Dives were mostly shallow and had a hard limit of 60 min regardless of ability or air left

Overall:
diving was great, resort was ok, the staff generally were nice except the management. I felt we were being price gouged on an extra meal our departure day ($23/plate for lunch is absurd for what it was and no prices posted). The location is close to the airport but an hour from the dive sites, however the proximity to the road was bothersome.
I do not think we will be returning to Scuba Club due to my complaints listed. I wish we had taken a trip to the cenotes.

Visited on 11/2017 - Submitted on 11/12/2017

blibecap

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This is somewhat a budget resort. You should book it with food as the onsite restaurant is good as well as the food. The diving is good and be sure and take the twilight dives. The local shore diving is ok and this is about the only resort that had shore diving. There are lockers near the beach and you can dive day or night. The rooms are ok just be careful if there is a rain storm as the patio drains may not be working and flood your room.

Visited on 08/2017 - Submitted on 03/11/2021

kpcetal

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Scuba Club is that rare thing that does exactly what it says it will do: gives you a great diving holiday. This Cozumel dive resort is not fancy- but it's also not expensive.

The accommodation is simple and plain- but very comfortable, with plenty of space, good hot showers, and a place for hanging things to dry.

The food is also simple and plain, but tasty and ample (the daily specials are highly recommended, as are the beef tacos). Note that at the moment they only serve breakfast and lunch- you can order dinner but really there are so many good places just down the way that it's more fun (& better/more interesting food) to go out. Drinks are reasonably priced and very good.

The location of the Club is great: just past the main drag, so it is easy to get to an amazing array of really good restaurants / ferry / etc., but it feels peaceful and separate from the hard core madness of the strip. The resort itself is organized so that everything is right there: food, dive shop, boat, water...

The staff are friendly and helpful (if sometimes a little persistent about making sure that the billing is being done correctly- but I would rather that they were a little over careful than have to sort out billing mistakes at the end). They get to know you and your preferences really quickly.

And then there's the diving in Cozumel, which is the main point of the exercise. Having all the shore diving you want is super. We were a group of 8, and had the same boat, crew and DiveMaster for almost every outing, which is brilliant. We chose Cozumel because we had 2 brand-new divers in the group, a bunch of intermediates and a couple of experts. Everybody enjoyed the dive outings. The drift diving is great and the wreck dive was fun for everybody. We saw the biggest seahorse any of us had ever seen, several Splendid Toadfish, and all the usual suspects (turtles, barracuda, moray, some *huge* spotted eagle rays, several varieties of puffers, etc).

On a practical note, if you are renting a regulator you are issued a numbered one at the beginning of your stay and you keep it (& the BCD if renting) for the duration. Also, bring a padlock & a flashlight!

Visited on 01/2023 - Submitted on 01/05/2023

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