Occidental Grand Cozumel
Hotel Information: This Cozumel resort attracts families and couples for its natural setting, seclusion, and Mexican design, which includes decorative tiles, ceramics, pottery, and signature tiered fountains.
Amenity highlights: A "quiet pool" lies in the resort's center, and an activities pool overlooks the beach, which extends along water that remains calm in most weather and offers snorkeling opportunities. The resort provides snorkeling gear, kayaks, windsurfers, boogie boards, and Hobie Cat sailboats. A dive shop offers scuba-diving instruction and reef, sunken-ship, and night dives as well as Jet Skis, parasailing, and fishing (surcharges for all).
Insider tip: Avian choirs inhabit both forest and jungle. Performances occur at dawn and dusk, and the best place to hear them is on a 100-meter (109-yard) wood bridge that leads over and through the jungle separating the resort's two swimming pools.
The majority of meals and activities at this resort are included in the room rate; guests will not be charged extra for a majority of meals and activities (scroll up to the All-Inclusive Details section for more information).
The Occidental Grand Cozumel offers 252 guestrooms in three-story colonial-villa-style buildings without elevators that are colored yellow and have red-tile roofs and wrought-iron balconies. Each villa is built around a central open-air garden. Rooms have marble floors and feature live plants, Mexican ceramics, and primitive-style paintings. Bathrooms contain stall showers and separate tubs. Mini-bars come stocked with beer, soft drinks, and water. Ceiling fans offer cooling alternatives to rooms' air conditioning.
Located in two villas separated from others, Royal Club rooms include DVD/CD players, dial-up Internet access, bathroom scales and makeup mirrors, pillow menu, turndown service, bathrobes, jetted tubs in addition to stall showers, and room service from early morning to late night. The Royal Club rate also includes exclusive access to a check-in/concierge lounge furnished with complimentary Internet-access computers; use of a private, 6-meter-diameter (20-ft) spa tub surrounded by a wood deck furnished with cushioned lounge chairs; and access to a private Royal Club Restaurant/Bar serving à la carte breakfasts, lunches, dinners. Royal Club guests also enjoy preferential dinner reservations at the resort's other restaurants.
