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Family Diving

family diving poolThe Riviera Maya, Cozumel and the Dominican Republic are all excellent playgrounds for people of all ages – child through adult. The Occidental resort properties in these locations all offer parents and children everything they could look for in a family vacation: top accommodations with family friendly services, great beaches, watersport and a good choice of organized activities the whole family can participate in.

Learning to Dive as a Family:
Introducing your kids, age ten and up, to the world of diving is a simple thing to do when staying at an Occidental resort. All of our resorts partner with professional PADI scuba facilities that offer FREE Scuba clinics in our pools on a daily basis. If you find you have enjoyed this experience, we're confident you will want to move on to the next step and see what it is like to dive in an open water ocean environment. To do so, you can make a reservation for a Discover Scuba Diving Course with our US based Reservations Office, or you can wait and make your reservation once at your resort. This is a one day course, leaving you plenty of time to pursue other activities on vacation, or if you are really bitten by the diving bug, continuing on to become a fully Certified Open Water Diver.family diving underwater

Our select dive operators affiliate with all of our Resorts offer the Discover Scuba Diving Course and the Certified Open Water Diver Course, as well as continuing dive courses. Our dive operator affiliates are some of the most committed, family-oriented and safety conscious teams you will find anywhere, and all stand ready to teach any family members in good health, of at least 10 years in age, how to dive.

Finding dive sites within the recreational depth limits for junior members of the family (40' maximum depth) is also an easy thing to do at our resort destinations.

family diving classesBarrakuda Scuba Mexico, providing services to the Allegro Playacar and Occidental Grand Xcaret, takes their Discover Scuba Diving students diving on a 3:00 pm boat dive, to sites that are specifically designed to accommodate inexperienced and "junior" divers (those under 16.) In fact the majority of the dive sites in the Playacar area can safely accommodate junior divers, since the reefs tend to be very shallow, with dives taking place "above" and not "aside" the reefs.

Dive Palancar, located at the Occidental Grand Cozumel, offers deep wall diving on their morning dives, but it also offers boat departures two times daily for their shallow water dives. The 10:30 a.m. gets you back to the resort in time for lunch and gives you the afternoon free. The 3:30 p.m. allows for a lazy morning, and late afternoon dive that gets you back in plenty of time for dinner.