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Cozumel
The island of Cozumel, which means “island of the swallows,” is located just 12 miles from the Yucatan Peninsula and is part of the state of Quintana Roo. Cozumel is 28 miles long and 10 miles wide and is world renown for its beautiful beaches and excellent scuba diving. For over 2000 years, the Mayan people have lived on this beautiful island. The main city of San Meguel has a current population of 70,000 people. For centuries, the Mayan women who came to the island to worship the goddess Ixchel, the goddess of fertility, used the island. IN the 15th & 16th Centuries, the Spanish explorers came to Cozumel and by the late 16th Century, most of the native Mayans had died, not from war, but smallpox. In the 18th Century, the Pirates of the Caribbean used Cozumel as a high out and because of the islands many fresh water springs. Cozumel and the San Meguel remained a sleepy fishing village for many years until the 1960’s when Jacques Cousteau, the famed French oceanographer, declared Cozumel’s reef system as one of the most beautiful scuba diving areas in the world. Since that time, Cozumel has continued to grow at a remarkable pace.
3 HERMANOS - Dive/Fishing
Are you a scuba diver? Have you always wanted to learn to scuba dive? As a guest at Casa Orleans, you will have a very special addition. We have made special arrangements with Tres Hermanos Diving & Fishing (insert link to cozumelfishing.com.) for all our guests at Casa Orleans. You can begin you dive training at home and finish your open water certification with our PADI instructors or take the entire course while you are on the island. We can work around your schedule so you can leave when you would like and not at 8:00AM. If you would like to try your hand at deep-sea fishing, we can do that as well. Tres Hermanos is completely rigged out for tournament fishing, featuring Gold Penn Reels, Outriggers and downriggers. You can even have your catch cleaned & filleted so you can enjoy “fresh fish” for dinner. Another special feature for our guests at Casa Orleans is we have made arrangements with a local dock located just minutes from your vacation home to pick up and drop off our guests. You no longer have to go to the dive shops, take the long boat ride past Casa Orleans to give to the diving or fishing areas. Be sure to tell Oscar, at Tres Hermanos, you will be a guest at Casa Orleans for extra special service
Airport & Airlines
The Cozumel airport is located about 20 minutes from Casa Orleans at 65th Ave & Boulevard Aeropuerto. Some of the US Airlines flying from the United States to Cozumel are:
Mexicana Airlines and Aero Mexico also fly between Cozumel and Mexico City and other points around Mexico
- Continental Airlines
- American Airlines
- Delta Airlines
- US Airways
Ferrys:
The modern Mexican Ferrys run between Cozumel and Playa del Carmen hourly. The fare is about $10.00 for the quick 30-minute crossing. The ferries begin running as early as 4:00AM and run to as late as 11:00PM. If you would like to make a day trip to Cancun, you can take a ferry across to Playa del Carmen and then a short 45-mile cab or bus ride to the hustle and bustle of modern Cancun. The taxi will cost about $45.00 each way and a modern bus will be about $20.00.
