Nachi Cocom Beach Club

Infinity pools and hammocks over turquoise water, Mr. Sancho’s has basically perfected the formula for a Cozumel cruise-day beach club.

Cozumel’s western reef is part of the second-largest coral reef system on Earth, and Money Bar gives divers surfacing from that underwater world exactly what they need: a cold cerveza and a beach chair to process it.

Bob Marley’s music and cold Red Stripe against crashing surf and wild mangroves, Rasta’s has been the most colorful stop on Cozumel’s undeveloped eastern shore for decades.

Visibility runs to 100 feet on a clear day in the water surrounding Cozumel, which makes Paradise Beach a genuinely earned name instead of just marketing.

Mezcalito’s runs a proper mezcal program on Cozumel’s most remote shoreline, the kind of beach bar that feels like an actual discovery instead of a tourist stop.