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[WreckWench]

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Location: "COZY COZUMEL" MEXICO
Dates:   October 10-17, 2020

 

HOW TO USE THIS TOPIC TO ASK QUESTIONS:
 

Hello and    not only to our club but to the topic you can ask any questions you want about this trip. Please use this topic you are reading right now to ask your questions. You will need to be registered on the SingleDivers.com site and logged into our forums to be able to post. See below for links on how to do these things or email admin@singledivers.com for help.  We will answer your questions here AND update the main trip topic if necessary as well as keep the TRIP FAQ updated in the 2nd topic related to this trip.

 

TYPICAL QUESTIONS NEW MEMBERS ASK:

 

How is the trip information organized?

 

#1 Trip Topic =  Full trip details, pricing, discounts, accommodations, travel details, etc.  (Locked. Only Admins can post to this)

#2 Trip Tooic =  Ongoing Trip FAQ and Answers to the questions from topic #3  (Locked. Only Admins can post to this)

#3 Trip Topic = Questions Topic... ask all your questions in this topic  (Open to anyone to post who is registered and logged in)

#4 Trip Topic = Who's Going, Who's doing what extras, Tours, Add On's etc. (Open to anyone who is GOING on the trip to post in if registered and logged in)

 

More detailed information is available in the thread title "How to Use this Forum to Manage Your Trip"

 

What are the "other" trip topics?

 

We will have other trip topics to help manage the pre-trip experience and ensure that you are as updated as possible. These include seeing who is celebrating a special event or ensuring you are getting the OFFICIAL TRIP PM.

 

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• click on Forums or click on Take me to the Surface Interval Forums under Forums
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• Choose a FUN SCREEN NAME ...email admin@singledivers.com if you need help. (Changing your screen name is very difficult to do after the fact so please take a few minutes to come up with a name you will like!)
• Finish the registration process

NOTE: Only upgraded premium members can sign up for our trips. The premium membership enables you to receive private trip communications, see the profiles of who else is going, PM others on the trip (and other premium members on the site) as well as entitle you to numerous specials, discounts, perks and deals throughout the year.

 

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• www.singledivers.com
• click on Forums or click on Take me to the Surface Interval Forums under Forums
• Login in the upper right (you know you are logged in when you see your screen name vs guest)
• Click on the white links in the dark blue bar....the last one is MEMBERSHIP
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• if you choose paypal your membership will be upgraded automatically and you can proceed immediately to book per the instructions below.
• If you choose the SD payment portal please allow 2-3 days for your subscription to be cleared, validated and manually upgraded
• Once your membership is upgraded you can book a trip with us.

 

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• No matter where you are you MUST LOG IN to either post or book.  To ensure your information is safe we REQUIRE YOU TO LOG IN EVERYTIME YOU LEAVE A SECURE AREA. This means if you leave the forums to book you need to log in again. If you leave the shopping cart to post in the forums you must log in again. 
• YOU WILL ALWAYS USE THE SAME LOGIN INFO BUT YOU LOG INTO EACH DIFFERENT PART OF THE SITE DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. (This is a security measure to keep your information safe.)

How Do I Log in so I Can Post?

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• Forums
• Take me to Surface Interval Forums
• Log into the upper right corner AGAIN even if you were logged into the homepage

How do I Find the Trip PM and See All Previous Trip Updates?  

 

If you want to see ALL the messages that have been posted in the trip pm please do the following:

• go to www.singledivers.com
• click on FORUMS
• click on Take me to the Surface Interval Forums
• In the upper right log in (do NOT log in at www.singledivers.com as this will only take you to the booking system and not the trip PM which resides in the forums)
• Once logged in you will see a gray envelope icon to the left of your screen name
• If the envelope has a green number in it that means you have new unread messages
• If the envelope is greyed out then you have read all the message but either way... click on the green number OR the gray envelope and you will be taken to your PM's. (Private Messages)
• Once in the PM inbox click on the PM for the trip you are on. EACH trip will have an "Official Trip PM" with that trip name in the title and the words ... DO NOT DELETE in the subject line.
• DO NOT DELETE  this message as we can never add you back and you will miss all the important trip updates that we send prior to a trip with our group.

 

How Do I log in so I Can Book a Trip or buy Add- On's?

• www.singledivers.com
• Log into the upper right corner AGAIN even if you were logged into the forums

 

How do I Book a Trip with SingleDivers.com? 

 

To book you trip please follow the following simple steps:

 

1. Register a FUN screen name

2. Log into the FORUMS and upgrade your membership to Premier or higher (you can also do when you are creating your screen name. If you use paypal you will be automatically upgraded by the system. If you use the SD payment portal it will take 24-48 hrs to verify your payment and manually upgrading you)

3. Once your membership is upgraded and your account is upgraded you can then log into the homepage as follows and book a trip.

• www.singledivers.com
• login 
• Trips
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• Complete your online documents for your trip within 21 days to avoid a $75 late document fee OR within 3 days if signing up within 30 days of the trip's departure date.
• You will be added to the TRIP PM (Private Message) within several days of signing up for a trip, which send courtesy emails to your inbox when an admin posts in it or you can check all messages sent 24/7 by logging into the forums and clicking on the message icon by your name.

 

HOW DO I GET REPLIES TO MY QUESTIONS?

 

• We will answer your question in this topic quoting your question so you get a courtesy email indicating we have replied to your questions. 
• We will update the TRIP FAQ located in the 2nd topic listing for this trip.
• We will update the main trip topic #1 if applicable. 

 

 

HOW DO I GET HELP?

 

1. Ask trip related questions in this topic so we can reply back to you and everyone else reading this topic as soon as we can.
2. If you need help with using the forums please email admin@singledivers.com
3. If you need specific trip help please email trips@singledivers.com
4. If you need any other help please email kamala@singledivers.com
5. PLEASE DO NOT USE DUPLICATE METHODS TO CONTACT US. Choose one avenue and we will reply via that avenue. If 2 days go by then you can use an alternate avenue. REMEMBER all our trip helpers and site helpers are VOLUNTEERS for the Dive Club.

[Arctic Swimmer]

Although I have been a member for some time - this is my first trip. If I want extra dives - night dives, extra afternoon dives - do I arrange for them at the time that I book? Do I pay for them now?

[dive_sail_etc]

Although I have been a member for some time - this is my first trip. If I want extra dives - night dives, extra afternoon dives - do I arrange for them at the time that I book? Do I pay for them now?

Hello Joanne, as a first time club trip attendee this is a great question! Extra boat dives as well as extra nights if flights arrive a day or two before or after the base trip dates, flight assistance etc. fall under the category of Add On items. Add On items may only be purchased from the Booking Page where you find the base Trip Package (i.e. Double Occupancy (D/O) Diver package). Add Ons cover items not already included as part of the Base Package in the Topic #1 Trip Details topic in this same subforum.

 

Once you have selected your Base Package you can add any Add On items you would like to your Shopping Cart and pay for them all at Check Out, OR you may return after Base Package purchase (but no later than 10 days prior to the trip departure date) to scroll down a bit, view and select the Add On items which you desire. Some extra items are not yet added as Kamala wraps up negotiations for pricing discounts; as pricing is confirmed they are announced to trip attendees in the Trip Private Message (PM) thread set up for each trip by our volunteer Trip Coordinators.

 

NOTE: For Add On items such as additional boat dives which require a minimum number of trip attendees to trigger eligibility at the club price, each member desiring to participate must first either email trips@singledivers.com OR as you just did, post a reply in a related trip topic such as the "QUESTIONS..." or "Who's Going" topic indicating an interest in joining an Add On extra boat dive. We maintain a list as part of the top post in that topic of members who have indicated said interest, along with the minimum needed divers to make the boat trip possible. When that minimum number is reached the interested trip attendees are alerted to go to the Booking Page and select / purchase their Extra Boat Trip(s).

 

Once you purchase your Base Package we will go ahead and add your name to the interested list for Add On / Extra Boat Trip at the top of this topic. Please reply post here to indicate how many days you may wish to include an Extra Boat Dive. Hope this helps!

[WreckWench]

 

Although I have been a member for some time - this is my first trip. If I want extra dives - night dives, extra afternoon dives - do I arrange for them at the time that I book? Do I pay for them now?

Hello Joanne, as a first time club trip attendee this is a great question! Extra boat dives as well as extra nights if flights arrive a day or two before or after the base trip dates, flight assistance etc. fall under the category of Add On items. Add On items may only be purchased from the Booking Page where you find the base Trip Package (i.e. Double Occupancy (D/O) Diver package). Add Ons cover items not already included as part of the Base Package in the Topic #1 Trip Details topic in this same subforum.

 

Once you have selected your Base Package you can add any Add On items you would like to your Shopping Cart and pay for them all at Check Out, OR you may return after Base Package purchase (but no later than 10 days prior to the trip departure date) to scroll down a bit, view and select the Add On items which you desire. Some extra items are not yet added as Kamala wraps up negotiations for pricing discounts; as pricing is confirmed they are announced to trip attendees in the Trip Private Message (PM) thread set up for each trip by our volunteer Trip Coordinators.

 

NOTE: For Add On items such as additional boat dives which require a minimum number of trip attendees to trigger eligibility at the club price, each member desiring to participate must first either email trips@singledivers.com OR as you just did, post a reply in a related trip topic such as the "QUESTIONS..." or "Who's Going" topic indicating an interest in joining an Add On extra boat dive. We maintain a list as part of the top post in that topic of members who have indicated said interest, along with the minimum needed divers to make the boat trip possible. When that minimum number is reached the interested trip attendees are alerted to go to the Booking Page and select / purchase their Extra Boat Trip(s).

 

Once you purchase your Base Package we will go ahead and add your name to the interested list for Add On / Extra Boat Trip at the top of this topic. Please reply post here to indicate how many days you may wish to include an Extra Boat Dive. Hope this helps!

 

Adding to what Brad said ( Brad for all your help!) sign up for as many things that you know you want and add them when you book the trip. You have til 10 days prior to make all final decisions and payments for the 'extras or add on's".   The important thing is to grab your spot as we have more interest than we do spots right now.

 

We are excited to meet you and thrilled to have you join our merry band of divers! kamala

[roro]

Hi Kamala, thank you so much for doing this. I immediately regretted not going on

the other one when I saw those facebook posts. Anyway, you know me, is there any chance you will add a piggyback week?  Kinda only want to go to the leave request well once. thanks, Roro

[WreckWench]

Hi Kamala, thank you so much for doing this. I immediately regretted not going on

the other one when I saw those facebook posts. Anyway, you know me, is there any chance you will add a piggyback week?  Kinda only want to go to the leave request well once. thanks, Roro

Hmmm...I wish I could do that but I'm not sure we have enough people interested.  I know I could do 2 weeks. Lets see if anyone is up for it. We have the double weeks in Nov for Dominica (it's a go!)  and we consolidated in Dec Roatan to 1 week due to holidays etc.

 

ps. This trip will be ONLY Cozumel as its not whaleshark season. We can offer the cenotes as an optional pkg as that is not seasonal.

[sparky103]

I have a question for that "Broke-Down Sail Guy" etc.

The quoted  trip dates are 10 /10-17 /20 , but in the itinerary there are two Tuesdays and then what looks like a mandatory "coma" ? time between Fri & Sat so that we eventually depart 6 days later ! 

The question then becomes : Is this time travel included ,or do we have to bring our own hallucinogens ?

 

 

 

Oh yes and can I get a 100 cf tank ?

 

Jeff

[WreckWench]

I have a question for that "Broke-Down Sail Guy" etc.

The quoted  trip dates are 10 /10-17 /20 , but in the itinerary there are two Tuesdays and then what looks like a mandatory "coma" ? time between Fri & Sat so that we eventually depart 6 days later ! 

The question then becomes : Is this time travel included ,or do we have to bring our own hallucinogens ?

 

 

 

Oh yes and can I get a 100 cf tank ?

 

Jeff

The "wrecked" wench is the one that posted the details so I'll have to check the time wrap er... double jeopardy ....er typo is all about and fix it! Thanks for the 'creative' way of letting us know about the 'mistake'!

 

But yes you can get cf100s. Do you want air or nitrox? There is a small upcharge so will have to verify the amt.

[roro]

Help. I can’t book this trip. I undated my membership but when I try to add 1 D/O which says 5 spots available, it tells me limit has been reached.

[dive_sail_etc]

Help. I can’t book this trip. I undated my membership but when I try to add 1 D/O which says 5 spots available, it tells me limit has been reached.

Rosemarie our Booking Manager volunteers have been alerted by email, we will have an update for you soon. Thanks for alerting us to your problem!

[roro]

I think its working now, the site shows successful transaction, not showing up at my bank yet but that may take a few. Thanks

[WreckWench]

I think its working now, the site shows successful transaction, not showing up at my bank yet but that may take a few. Thanks

YES you are officially signed up!  YEA!!!  Now get out there and make some noise about this trip and a possible 2nd week!  We for sure have 2 weeks for Dominica!

[roro]

Any of you Cozumel Covid repeaters have any tips for the rest of us? Like I heard on our local news this morning that you can bring 12oz of sanitizer on planes, and American Airlines, which I booked, says you can bring your own snacks and sodas onboard. is this true? Are locals glad to see tourists or did they glare at you when you ventured out? last time I was there, you can pay with US$, but you'd get change in pesos, still the case or better to get pesos? thanks

[WreckWench]

Any of you Cozumel Covid repeaters have any tips for the rest of us? Like I heard on our local news this morning that you can bring 12oz of sanitizer on planes, and American Airlines, which I booked, says you can bring your own snacks and sodas onboard. is this true? Are locals glad to see tourists or did they glare at you when you ventured out? last time I was there, you can pay with US$, but you'd get change in pesos, still the case or better to get pesos? thanks

 

1. Yes most airlines now allow your own sanitizer. Check size limits per carrier.

2. Yes you can bring your own snacks (either from home or the airport) or beverages (only from the airport). The plane will give you 1 small pkg of pretzels and 1 small water.

3. Locals are THRILLED to see us! The only place I had an issue was a small convenience store and they said "MASK UP MASK UP" when after having been walking a few blocks in the heat outside I forgot to put the mask on when I entered. However none of that happened at the resort nor down town nor with taxi drivers nor in Playa.

4. You can still pay in dollars and you'll get change in dollars or pesos depending on what they have. Exchange is basically 20 to 1 so 20 pesos is $2US.  200 Pesos is $20 US.  Personally given the fixed exchg rate I never change into pesos as I will get the same rate pretty much anywhere without paying a bank in the US or airport a fee. All taxi drives and shuttle vans etc. take US Dollars!  Since our pkg is all inclusive you only need cash for tips so save the trip to the bank and just bring dollars.

[Pina colada]

Hi! I have a question...! I am debating which gear bags to bring. Do we personnaly bring our BCD's to and from the boat on a daily basis OR does the crew do it?