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About Iberostar Cozumel
Iberostar Waves Cozumel is a family-friendly beachfront resort surrounded by lush tropical gardens, offering all-inclusive comfort, vibrant coral reef diving right offshore, and a perfect blend of relaxation and adventure on the island’s Caribbean coast.
Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Located in one of the best snorkeling and diving locations in the world, Iberostar Cozumel is sure to offer guests an unforgettable vacation. This all-inclusive 5-star dive resort located along the Mexican Riviera perfectly combines rustic elements with modern accents that are featured in its bungalow suites. With a beautiful beachfront location and thriving greenery, this all-inclusive resort is the perfect getaway from families, friends, and couples
How To Get There
Flying to Cozumel is easy thanks to many visiting tourists. Several airlines offer direct flights into Cozumel International Airport (CZM), and from there it's a quick shuttle or shared taxi ride to the dive resorts. If taking the taxi, it's necessary to pay for the ride inside the airport before walking outside. There are two rates depending on whether the resort is close to town or further south (about $9 USD).
The other alternative is to fly into Cancun and then take a ferry down to Cozumel. This also presents the opportunity to visit Playa Del Carmen - a great option for those who would like to cover a bit more ground or dive the Cenotes.
Dive Overview
Cozumel is a year-round dive destination known for easy drift diving with stellar visibility, vibrantly colored sponges and marine life like turtles, nurse sharks and rays. It also has good nightlife and a mix of luxury and inexpensive dive resorts.
See more of the resort with our Walkthrough Video!
Accommodation Overview
Iberostar Waves Cozumel offers bright, tropical-style accommodations surrounded by lush gardens and ocean views, designed to provide comfort and relaxation in a natural island setting. Guests can choose from a variety of room types, including Double Rooms, Ocean View Rooms, and Suites—each featuring modern amenities and easy access to the beach and resort facilities.
Room features vary by type and may include:
Private balcony or terrace with garden or ocean views
En-suite bathroom with shower and complimentary toiletries
Air-conditioning and ceiling fan
Flat-screen TV and minibar
Coffee maker and in-room safe
Complimentary Wi-Fi
Daily housekeeping service
Access to resort pools, restaurants, bars, and on-site dive center
Premium Room
The Premium Rooms at Iberostar Cozumel offer tropical garden views, a private balcony, cozy bedding, and modern amenities for a comfortable and relaxing stay.
Step straight onto the beach from your terrace. Fall asleep to waves or watch the sunset from your lounger — true beachfront living just feet from the sea.
Guests can be sure to work up an appetite at the Iberostar Cozumel restaurants where the best international cuisine is coupled with the authentic flavors of Mexico. The Cozumel Buffet is open every day, from 6:00 AM to 11 AM, and 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM. The buffet breakfast comes with a wide variety of fruit, milk, bread, cereal, and cold cuts; while every night, a different cuisine (Mexican, Italian, Caribbean, etc.) is served. The buffet does have a dress code. While guests are expected to show up in business casual attire, men are encouraged to wear their Bermuda shorts and sandals, and women can wear closed-toe shoes or sandals.
The El Cedral Rotisserie offers a lunch and dinner buffet every day. Guests are served international cuisine mixed with Mexican specialties, including pasta, meat and fish dishes, vegetables, salads, and other special dishes prepared right in front of you. For guests who do not want the buffet, la carte dinners are available which serve the best cuts of meat, fish of the day, and a delicatessen appetizer buffet. The dress code is smart casual, and there are also themed and gala evenings for the guest's enjoyment. Guests should make their reservations when they arrive at the hotel.
The Las Dos Maras Mexican Restaurant is also open every day from 6 PM to 6:00 AM. Here, guests can experience fusion cuisine, combining dishes from Mexico and the United States, with a Mexican canteen atmosphere. Snacks are also available all night long. The dress code is business casual, and guests should make their reservations when they arrive at the hotel.
The La Pagoda Japanese Restaurant is open every day from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM. The restaurant serves Asian dishes such as sushi and maki, coconut rice with toasted cumin and cilantro, teriyaki tuna skewer, and other exciting meals. The dress code is business casual, and guests should make their reservations when they arrive at the hotel.
Dive Information
The diving in Cozumel is comprised primarily of drift dives along beautiful coral reefs. Two-tank morning dives are standard among dive operators and resorts, generally starting with a deeper reef in the Palancar region of the Marine Park. Here divers will descend to 60-120 feet to drift along massive walls, explore swim-throughs and channels and take in all the colorful soft coral formations.
Diving in Cozumel The second dive is typically on a shallower reef closer to the resort with depth in the 30-60 range, where ambient light mixes with coral heads and gardens of sponges, gorgonians and great fish life. Beach dives present underwater photographers with the time to search for critters with their macro lens. Visibility range is typically 100ft+ year-round and water temperature is between 75- 85F. The weather is tropical with little seasonal variation.
Divers will find eagle rays in the winter months, reef sharks in the summer months and turtles and nurse sharks year-round.
Cozumel is also home to the Splendid Toadfish, which can be found under ledges. Grunts, parrotfish, black grouper, angelfish, tangs, moray eels, lobsters and much other marine life can be found on the reefs in Cozumel. There are also juvenile drum fish, seahorses, anemone fish, colorful nudibranchs, arrow crabs and many other small critters.
Dressel Divers is the company chosen by the prestigious Iberostar Hotel chain for the last twenty years to run diving activities on the premise of its luxury hotels in the Caribbean, to ensure that this service has the same quality as the hotels. Dressel Divers have a dive center directly on the beach of Iberostar Cozumel Hotel.
Dive Center Features
Dressel Divers has rental equipment that feels like it's every diver's own! The dive equipment is of premium quality, regularly maintained and replaced with new and innovative products over time. A wide variety of gear is offered so that persons of all statures and ages will find something that suits them.
The dive centers include state of the art equipment rooms staffed by employees who wash, disinfect and store client's rental equipment. They also include a place to store personal dive equipment. Our cylinders, filling stations and compressors are operated and maintained by well-trained qualified staff in strict compliance with the generally accepted industry standards and all instructions specific to the brands used.
The boats are exclusively designed and built for Dressel Divers under the strict supervision of Javier Ibran, a lifelong diver and the company's founding President. Dive boats are tailored to provide ample space for equipment and clients, as well as an easy entry and exit into the water for divers.
Cylinders are provided on-board the boats, the majority of which are catamarans or trimarans (to limit movement due to waves and therefore seasickness).
Boats, furthermore, are equipped with a sunroof, fresh drinking water, a radio, a GPS device, oxygen, spare diving equipment, and everything else deemed mandatory by the United States Coast Guard. The engines, all top brands, are subject to ongoing monitoring and servicing by in-house mechanics. Boat captains, moreover, all have First Aid medical training. Last but not least, with very few exceptions all boats have double engines.
Almost all the staff obtained their professional diving qualifications with our own PADI Career Development Center. They are therefore trained within our own philosophy and in harmony with the objectives of Dressel Divers. They will give you not only a great dive but also a very safe one!
The Iberostar was perfect for our family. My husband and 17 year old son were already certified divers. But since it had been one year, they were able to do a refresher course the day we arrived. This was great for refreshing and checking equipment. They were then able to pick their days, dive locations and types. Because I don't dive, I enjoyed the amenities of the resort such as games, yoga, the beach, pool, many bars and restaurants. I loved having the presidential because I had a private pool and beach. The hotel was so very accommodating. Anything we needed they took care of promptly. This was a great resort for divers and and adults.
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Laineyjri
Visited Mar 2021|Reviewed Mar 2025
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I went with a group of divers and nondivers and we spent a week at the Iberostar Hotel in Cozumel. We booked 19+ dives over 5 days. The resort was amazing. The staff were friendly and very helpful, always interested in getting us anything we needed. The rooms are in individual buildings with four rooms to a building - two up and two down and each has separate, private entrances. The rooms clean, quiet and very comfortable. The food was fantastic with a huge variety of options to suit all needs. There is a large, buffet style eating area for lunch and dinner, three restaurants that rotate nights, a separate small food pavilion and bar closer to the beach. All eating options were included in the price of the stay, as were all beverages - no limits. The facilities were clean, safe and careful - with an eye towards COVID risks. The hotel offered free COVID testing within 72 hours of departure to meet US re-entry requirements. At the time they also offered free 10 accommodations if anyone tested positive.The scuba diving with Dressel Divers was fantastic. I was a newer diver and by boyfriend had never dove. He did the Discover Scuba and was so comfortable with it that he is going to pursue certification. I worked with the DM on my diving skills (buoyancy) and other improvements, even during our group dives. The undersea life (macro and micro) were amazing and the coral was in wonderful condition. There are enough sites to dive that we weren't always at the same ones and the depth and variety (swim throughs, wreck, etc) were great!We will be going back there and with some of the deals going on right now it may be in the next few months!
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