Located on the waterfront --one mile south of the downtown Ferry Dock, this is an attractive multi-level building of Spanish-Colonial architecture, with only sixty rooms. Designed and built --by divers for divers-- to provide all services in one convenient place, it boasts a freshwater swimming pool, restaurant-bar and in-house dive center. Across the street in a small annex, there is a very nice gift shop and convenience store as well as a retail dive shop. The ocean side is an Ironshore of limestone that drops to 15 feet and provides a very interesting wall for shallow diving and snorkeling. This area is full of crevices and small caves carved in the limestone, which offers great opportunities for video and macro photography. Entry into the water is possible from either one of the piers and a very easy exit is found through a tunnel, that leads to a waist deep saltwater pool and a short staircase up to the deck. Night diving here will produce unique and memorable creature encounters.

All rooms have window A/C ’s, ceiling fans and a small refrigerator. Finished in tile and stucco, they are ready for wet divers and have an individual character with a feel of Mexican heritage. Since a diving vacation should also be relaxing, they were not equipped with a TV set or a telephone, but instead are spacious, comfortable and have drying racks for dive suits on each terrace. A few have been recently remodeled to accommodate the needs of handicapped divers.

This central building houses the restaurant. Downstairs is open-air for breakfast buffet style and sit down diver's lunch, with a bar and two TV monitors for sports watching or review of the day's video productions. Upstairs is the main dinning room which is air conditioned and has an ocean view for spectacular sunsets. Every evening there is a different selection of entrees, comprising red meat, poultry and seafood, with a taste of the cuisine from the Yucatan region. Vegetarian meals and special diets are prepared on advanced notice.

After boat diving there is always time to make additional dives from shore, take a dip in the cozy freshwater pool, or read a book resting on a colorful hammock under the shade of a thatched roof, while listening to the gentle waves slowly carving the limestone into a myriad shapes.

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