Expert insights, travel tips, and the latest from Cozumel's cruise port. Updated daily by our local team.
Everything a cruise passenger needs to know about cenote swimming in Cozumel — what the water is like, whether you need swimming skill, what to pack, and how to fit it into a port day.
A practical guide to the Jade Cavern cenote in Cozumel — what the cave is, what the swim feels like, how it fits a cruise port day, and what to bring.
Puerta Maya is Carnival's home terminal in Cozumel and one of three cruise piers on the island. Here is exactly what is at the terminal, how far you are from town, what it costs to get anywhere, and how to plan a port day around it.
San Gervasio is the largest Mayan archaeological site on Cozumel and the island's only major ruins. Here is what it actually is, what you will see, how long it takes from the cruise pier, and whether it is worth your port day.
Puerta Maya is where Carnival's fleet docks in Cozumel — and where thousands of passengers make the same avoidable mistakes in their first sixty minutes ashore. A step-by-step walkthrough of the gangway, the terminal, the taxi stand, and the meeting point that trips people up.
Searching CUN to CZM and finding almost nothing? There is a reason. Here is every realistic way to get from Cancun International Airport to Cozumel — the ground-plus-ferry route, the connecting flight, private transfers, and the mistakes that cost travelers hours.
Your booking confirmation is in an email you cannot open. Your ship turned your data off. Here is how phones actually behave on a Cozumel cruise excursion, and the offline setup that removes the problem entirely.
Your ship's doctor is not available once you step ashore. Here is what actually happens if you are injured on a Cozumel cruise tour — who treats you, who pays, what your ship will and will not do, and the ten minutes of prep that make all of it easier.
Isla Pasión está protegida de casi todo: del sargazo, del oleaje del Caribe, del viento dominante del este. Pero está abierta exactamente en una dirección — el norte. Aquí explicamos qué es un norte, por qué afecta a Isla Pasión de forma distinta a El Cielo, y cómo leer el pronóstico antes de reservar.
Almost every Cozumel port guide covers the middle of the day. The two windows that actually decide whether your day works are the walk off the gangway and the walk back on — debarkation order, the pier gauntlet, ship's time versus island time, security on re-boarding, and what genuinely happens if you are late.
Every Isla Pasion guide says the island is easy. It is — if you can walk on sand. Here is the honest breakdown of the four physical transitions between the cruise pier and your beach chair, and the questions to ask before you book for someone who cannot do all of them.
Sargassum is the single variable most likely to ruin a Caribbean beach day, and almost no Isla Pasion guide mentions it. Here is why the island's position works in your favour, the one way that advantage can reverse, and how to check conditions yourself before you sail.
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