January 6 – Cozumel, Mexico

Weather – 28º, sunny

Steps – 11,708 (4,000 of those dancing!!)

Humidity – 70%

We woke up just as the sun was coming up this morning – a lovely welcome to Mexico. We’ve been to Cozumel a couple of times before, so our plan for the day was to take it easy and head in on our own.

We were in no rush to get off the boat, so we drank our coffee on the balcony watching the other ships come in.

Three Amigos and our ship

After running the gauntlet of duty-free shops, we found a primo spot right against the water at Three Amigos – a restaurant/bar overlooking the water and ships. We had nachos and a couple of Sol beers. It was good when got there when we did because not long after we arrived it was full.

There are 3 ships at our pier with 7 in town all together today. We figured the 3 ships at our pier totalled around 9,000 passengers.

Pancho's Backyard

After Three Amigos, we wandered the shops and restaurant area of the pier. We weren’t really looking to stop anywhere else, but Pancho’s Backyard was charming and enticing. We sat at an outdoor area of the restaurant over-looking the water with our feet in sand…lovely. We had $15 giant margaritas. We thought this was a good price considering margaritas at Three Amigos were 25USD! This is why we had beer there!

The distance to the ship was about a 5-minute walk.

lovely candle-light concert

We spent the rest of the afternoon watching the port activities from our balcony which by this time of day was in the shade.

Pre-dinner we visited the Sanctuary lounge for a champagne and an enormous bowl of nuts – we certainly didn’t need nearly as much as they gave us. The guitar player took his break shortly after we arrived, which seemed typical.

We had dinner reservations at the Italian place, but not until after the 7:00 Silent Disco!

delicious burrata appetizer

Tonight was 80’s theme night – not just the Silent Disco, but a sing along, a couple of trivias, and a couple of other dance parties. Plenty of people are dressed in 80’s costume! It was too bad we had our reservation tonight because that conflicted with some of the events…no problem though, because dinner was terrific.

The Silent Disco was fun, but not as fun as the first night. Cole, the cruise director, DJed while giving commentary the first night – he is pretty funny and entertaining.

The Italian dinner was as expected, which was pretty darn good.

After dinner we checked out a few of the other ships events, including a ‘candle-light concert’ – WOW, the place was packed. We got there toward the end and heard a few songs…the musician was great.