There are several dining options at Presidente Intercontinental Cozumel, including Caribeño, a beachfront restaurant that serves Mexican, regional, and international foods, and Alfredo Di Roma Trattoria, an Italian restaurant that specializes in fettuccine Alfredo and wines. Le Cap Beach Club serves Mediterranean dishes, and Faro Blanco is a cozy, relaxing restaurant with sea views. Private six-course dinners and in-room dining are available as well.
The resort’s on-site dive center, Scuba Du, is PADI 5-star certified and has dive boats, snorkeling, jet skis, and paddleboards. Since Cozumel is home to part of the most extensive reef system in the world, there are plenty of sights to see. Nearby dive sites include Paradise Reef, which has three separate reefs and is most famous for its night dives; Chankanaab, with colorful coral reefs, sand rays, and octopuses; and Santa Rosa Wall, with a 50-foot drop, caves, and tunnels. Each dive trip will have no more than seven divers per divemaster. Scuba Du’s dive boats are custom-built and include DAN oxygen units, VHF radios, and platforms or easy access ladders. The dive center offers rinse stations, storage facilities, underwater cameras, PADI courses, and dive and snorkel equipment. In addition to traditional daily diving, guests can also choose to go on night dives, guided tours, private charters, fishing trips, and more. Other attractions include exploring an underwater submarine, an ecological reserve, swimming with dolphins, Mayan ruins, pirate ships, and museums.
Ecological Reserve – Faro Celarain - Located at the southern end of the island, it is the most important of the Ecotourism project of the Cozumel Parks and Museums Foundation. The park encompasses a wide variety of natural landscapes. In its extension of more than a hundred hectares, you can see the combination between the surroundings of the lagoon, as well as the jungles and mangroves. The lagoons of this area are a natural refuge for a wide variety of flora and fauna of the region.
Mayan Ruins of San Gervasio - Be part of the Mayan culture and its mysteries in the largest archaeological site on the island. San Gervasio was a strategic point for the commercial and political development of its time, and also a sacred center of the Maya. Inhabited since 200 A.D. Until the Spanish conquest, San Gervasio was also a sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Ixchel, the goddess of fertility, who attracted pilgrims from all over the Mayan world, who came to venerate her.
Chankanaab Park - One of the greatest treasures of nature in Cozumel, designated in 1980 as a National Park, is an area dedicated to the protection of marine flora and fauna of the western coast of Cozumel Island. Chankanaab Lagoon, whose meaning in Maya is “small sea”, is a world-renowned ecosystem and a natural aquarium. The ocean currents that form there encourage the growth of corals, as well as the development of the communities of fish, mollusks and crustaceans, and their survival depends largely on the constant flow of water through incredible underwater caves.
Narrative text and photographs courtesy of the InterContinental Presidente Cozumel.