The Caribu Blu hotel is a simple but convenient hotel for the diving enthusiast. The rooms are very basic, but clean. The restaurant next door is small, but the food is good and the beers are cold. The Blue Angel dive shop is right next door to the hotel. You can see your boat arrive from your room. The staffs at both the hotel and dive shop were friendly and helpful. I made my reservations for the hotel and the diving through the Blue Angel dive shop. If you are going the Cozumel to dive, then I recommend this hotel.

My husband and I have been traveling to Cozumel for years with a local dive shop and have always stayed at another hotel because that is where the dive shop booked us. This year we decided to take a trip on our own for my husband's 50th birthday and wanted to try staying somewhere else for a change. We lucked out with the Caribe Blu Hotel and the Blue Angel dive shop. The hotel is pleasantly small and the rooms are no-frills, but very clean and spacious with a great view of the water, comfy beds and a very convenient refrigerator. There are water coolers on each floor, so you always have clean, cool water to drink. The dive shop is right next door and has a professional and friendly staff. They have fast boats and actually take you where you want to go .....definitely not a cattle-boat operation. The restaurant is right above the dive shop and has good food and a friendly staff. I was disappointed that they closed at 3 P.M. , but that may have been because it was the low season. The manager of the dive shop (Jeanie) was wonderful. She took the time to arrange for a birthday cake for my husband and really went out of her way to make our stay enjoyable. Her husband (Mike) actually delivered the cake (What a guy!!) and was the best island guide one could ever hope for. They are just great, down-to-earth people and we really enjoyed their company. All in all, this was the best and most relaxing vacation we have had in years and we will go back to the Caribe Blu/Blue Angel next year for sure!!

J&D Little Rock, AR

Ditto the previous rave review. I LOVED the hotel -- its great for divers and a perfect "no frills" experience. Don't think Super 8, either. It is cheap, but my room was very clean and the hotel has real character. Also, it is safe, with a night guard and security entrance after it gets dark. My room had PLENTY of hot water but not much cold water and at least one other person had the same experience. Not a big deal to me. Air cond. and refridgerator worked nicely. Some people thought the air cond. units were loud but it didn't bother me. People who think its too far to walk into town are in too big of a hurry. I split the difference -- walking sometimes or catching a cab when it was too hot or I was feeling lazy, hungry or tired from diving.

We absolutely loved this hotel. We knew going in that it was no frills, so we were not disappointed. Our room was the octopus room on the second floor at hte opposite end from the on site dive shop.

Our room had a King bed (one of two rooms, the rest have two double beds. We had requested a fridge ahead of time which they were able to accomodate. The room was clean and bed was comfortable even though it was on the hard side. We only had two complaints. The first that we had was the hit or miss hot water. This was not that big of a concern as the water when it was only running "cold" was only cool and not much difference between that and the ocean water temp. It was not a problem, but refreshing to take a cool shower while it was hot outside. The other problem was the restaurant. The food was decent but the we were charged different prices each day that we ate there even though we ordered the same thing. We mentioned these to the management and we were told they would be addressed.

The thing that really made our stay here so wonderful was the staff. They were extremely accomodating and friendly.

The on site dive op Blue Angel was superb. The manager Opal was outstanding as was our divemaster Jorge. They are a very inexpensive operation with 2 small fast boats that are covered and 1 larger boat.

We will definitely be back.