Thursday 8th Jan: We took the bus from the hotel to Valladolid at 11am and then from there to Playa Del Carmen arriving at around 2.30pm. We'd booked a hostel already to headed straight there and then to the beach for lunch. I'd left a bag of stuff I couldn't be bothered to carry around at the Hostel Playa so we went back to retreive it - I wasn't sure it'd still be there at all so was relieved to find it was, minus a couple of pairs of trousers, but hey ho!!
We booked up some snorkelling for tomorrow as we'd heard there was good diving and snorkelling off Cozomel.
We met up with Cheedo for a few games of pool in the evening at the pool bar and had a taco from the 'tacovan' for dinner. The tacovan is a 'fast food' taco place - basically an old VW beetle van which serves tacos from the back!

Friday 9th Jan: We had breakfast on the beach and then took the ferry over to Cozomel for the snorkelling. There are two ferry companies which go to and from Cozomel so they alternate - as one goes one way the other is coming back - the tickets were 140pesos each way but if you buy a return you have to wait for the same boat as you went across on - you can't use your ticket to get on the other companies boat!!


The first place we snorkelled was litterally next to a huge cruise ship and there really wasn't much to see. The second place was marginally better and the guide took some food in with us to feed the fish so there was something more to see. The third place was about 100yds away from the second and 2 minutes after we got in we all started to get stung by millions of little jellyfish!! It was soooo itchy - we all jumped out pretty quickly!! All in all it was a huge disappointment. There were divers in the places we were snorkelling and I was so glad I didn't pay for a dive....
We had a wander around Cozomel which is really just a smaller version of Playa Del Carmen - loads of tourist shops and restaurants. We got an ice cream and headed back across the water.

For our last dinner we went to a really nice restaurant for diner and blew the rest of our budget - nice :o)

Saturday 10th Jan: We took the bus to the airport...back to the UK via a very snowy Newark airport which seemed very bizarre after being in the sunshine for so long....