Cozumel today. Heard us docking around 7am, rolled over and went back to sleep after that :). Nothing real major planned for the agenda. Turns out, we were docked at the far southern pier in Cozumel, the Puerto Maya pier I think. Which means that you’re several miles out of the main areas of town, so you’re stuck with the shopping at the stores at the pier unless you take a cab downtown. I was looking for a particular brand of tequila, and the main duty free store at the pier didn’t have it, and interestingly, none of the other stores in the pier shopping area carried tequila at all. Somehow I’m guessing that the Dufry duty free store was the only one allowed to sell tequila in the port area. There was a small store across the street from the pier stores, but they didn’t have what I was looking for (and I question whether their prices were any good). Cathy did try a pomegranite flavored tequila that she said was pretty good, but at $35 a bottle, that puts it in the range of what a pretty good bottle of tequila should be around here, so was pretty pricey.
We did get some vanilla in the Los Cincos Soles store. We bought their vanilla a few years ago, and really liked the flavoring of it. It’s not the fake stuff that you have to watch out for, and at $10 for half a liter, isn’t badly priced at all.
Was interesting to note that the NCL Epic that was in Roatan yesterday (and did get to spend the day there), while their next stop apparently is indeed Cozumel, they don’t actually get here till tomorrow. Even if we’d made Roatan, we still stopped here today, but for some reason they take an extra sea day to get up here.