We really enjoy Cozumel, and find the people there to be very friendly if you put forth any kind of an attempt to be nice. 
We pre-booked with Nachi Cocom Beach Club. Nachi is becoming a victim of its own success, I'm afraid. While still a great beach club, rather than the dozen patrons we saw last time we were there, there were at least 75 or 80 there this time, most of them very loud groups from the Carnival Ecstasy short cruise that was also in port that day. Once they all went off to get drunk at the swim-up bar, things quieted down a bit. 


Cozumel

We had booked a day at Barefoot Cay resort, a private dive resort a few minutes from Mahogany Bay which has a magnificent snorkeling reef in their front yard. Unfortunately, high winds forced the Captain to redirect us to Coxen Hole, so it cost double to get to Barefoot Cay. 
We had the resort to ourselves (literally, we were the only couple there, everyone else was out on dive boats), but the wind conditions made snorkeling the reef nearly impossible. Although the resort was beautiful, since snorkeling was our main focus we probably would have saved a bunch of money and had a better time if we had gone to Maya Key instead, because of the weather conditions. 


Roatan

We had booked a 9:30 trip to Lamanai with belizecruiseexcursions/x-stream through Island Marketing. Torrential rains and rough waters held up the tendering process, but we still managed to get to the first tender, and met our guides on time. Unfortunately, the other 14 others that had also booked apparently didn't feel like getting up early. They never showed until nearly 11am for our 9:30 trip. This would have cut our time at Lamanai so short that it wouldn't have been worth the 2 hour trip to get there, in my opinion. 
The coordinator from X-Stream, at one point gave up on the rest of the group, and tried to get us a van instead of the bus he had reserved. The van got stopped at a security check point, and never showed. He kept assuring us that we had enough time...he even tried to convince a couple from the Carnival Glory that they would make it back in plenty of time, even though their ship was leaving port far earlier than ours. We canceled on the spot and got our money back...I felt we were getting cut short and should have left on time for the tour. Giving X-Stream credit, they refunded our money without a problem, and were very apologetic. 


Belize City

Another great Mexican port. We took a taxi down to the Malecon, and stopped at a dive shop next to BoH Beach (I think the name of the shop was Bambu). We hooked up with a local operator who took us out for a snorkel at the reef for $20pp. We enjoyed a full hour in the water with Juan, our guide. Reef was beautiful, we had a great time. 


Costa Maya

No covering over the balcony, in full view of people on Serenity deck. Noise from the Lido clearly audible on the balcony.

Our room steward left us a concentrated bottle of deodorizer to use inside of our cabin when things got a little too ripe, but on too many occasions our balcony was virtually unusable due to the odor.One night, we arrived a bit later, and there would have been a 20 minute wait to get a table for two in Iki's section, so I think they've got the anytime concept down pretty well.

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