Planning a vacation for 11 friends is never easy, esp if you're the one planning the activities. Sparing details, I'll just say that Aramis at Akumal Bay Dive Center helped me plan around the wants/needs/indecisiveness of my fickle crew. He was very responsive to my many emails and provided for us a great experience and hooked us up with one of the best dive masters I've had the pleasure of diving with, Mauro! Four of us dove and on the OW dive, I was recovering from a night of "revenge", and couldn't make it to the 2nd tank. One of my crewmates was new to diving and Mauro was so extremely patient, helping her with her bouyancy and breathing. In the ocean, there wasn't much to see other than some really cool turtles, sad really. But the Dos Ojos dive was as Aramis promised, amazing! I wasn't planning on doing the caverns but I'm so glad we did.
If you're serious about ocean diving and seeing marine life, head to Cozumel. Much more to see there. Ask for Mauro :) read more