Good morning guys, from Cozumel, Mexico,
where my dad, myself and my dad's friend are going to be spending the next four
weeks getting to know the island of Cozumel.
And in this video guys,
we're going to be showing you what it costs to live in Cozumel.
A pretty modest, pretty good life for one full month.
Now, it is January during the pandemic,
so there's a possibility that some of our prices might be slightly lower,
like our negotiations for our Airbnb, but for the most part,
a lot of the prices are going to be accurate no matter when you are here.
You also need to be a good negotiator
because I love to negotiate everything if possible.
And so, guys, by the end of this video,
I know you're going to feel very confident that if you want to live in Cozumel,
you're going to know exactly how much it's going to cost you.
So let's go ahead and start off and do a little house tour for you so you can
know what our biggest cost is for the month, which is accommodation.
We are staying at a place called
Colibri Villas, and it's about a 20 minute walk from the ferry port.
We got our man Luis right here.
He takes care of us.
He's he's the man that runs
the properties, knows the area, and he's given us so many local tips
so a lot of the things you're going to see
in these videos came from our man right here.
So yeah guys, we are staying here in the Colibri Villas,
which is centrally located near a lot of great restaurants and still not
directly in the tourist area where you're going to feel like you're always being
bombarded by a bunch of different people trying to sell you things.
We're far enough away where we can feel like we're one of the locals,
and as you can see behind me, it is a really beautiful spot in here.
This is the courtyard area and this is our casa right behind me.
If you can see there,
we got a two story villa, which we're going to do a room tour for you as well.
But I just wanted to give you a quick run-through.
We have a three-bedroom villa for one
month, which comes out to six hundred dollars per person or eighteen hundred
dollars for the whole month with all the utilities included.
And it is some of the fastest internet I have ever had.
We also have over here in the Colibri
area, we have a pool behind here to hang out and swim.
And then on the other area over here, we have a nice little hangout spot here.
So come there, have some beers and do some chillin',
it's going to be a great spot to spend the next month.
And just to put it in perspective for you, it's roughly like twenty dollars per day
for us to be here when split between three people.
We could also, if, you know,
we were each with a significant other, we could get six people in here
comfortably and that would bring it down to like ten dollars per day per person.
So that is the negotiated price,
I was able to get a really good deal since I am doing a longer-term rental.
So I'm very happy with it and I'm excited to spend the next four weeks here,
but let's go ahead and go inside and show you guys what it looks like.
As you can imagine, air conditioned for sure.
A lot of space, we have our living room right behind me
with a few different couches and chairs to hang out on. The computer workstation
so we're going to be spending probably fifty percent of my time in Cozumel.
And so over here, we have the kitchen area, pretty basic.
They have an oven, microwave, sink, everything,
no dishwasher, but it's not super common to have a dishwasher in Mexico,
unless you're in like a super, super nice place.
And then over here we have another bedroom which has a full-sized bed on top.
It has a bunk bed for another twin-sized bed and a huge bathroom, which is great.
Now, going up to the second floor where my dad and I are staying,
we have two bedrooms up here and one shared bathroom.
So over here we have my dad's room, which has a nice, like,
king-sized bed along with the balcony out there to hang out on.
And then we have my room right here, a little bit smaller queen-sized bed.
So definitely really comfortable for one
person to stay in here, air conditioner units in each room.
And then coming into here, we have the bathroom.
So this is the shared bathroom for the two bedrooms up here.
That is the crib, guys. Super cool place.
Let's go ahead and move on to the next cost.
Our next thing on the list is to get a moped rental for the month.
When I was in Tulum, I got a bicycle rental for the month,
but Cozumel is such a large island and there's so many things we want to do
far away that I decided to go with the moped.
It's going to be a bit more expensive because we're renting it versus buying
the bike like we did in Tulum and sold it at the end of the month.
But it's going to save us
on transportation costs when we want to go all over the island.
I am going to miss that exercise, though.
So basically yesterday I spent a little bit of time talking to a few different
locals to figure out what is going to be a fair price to get a moped for the month.
So I was walking down by the center near the ferry port and I was able to come
to an agreement, three of them for four hundred dollars.
So it's about one hundred and thirty-three
US dollars per person to have a moped rental for the month,
so not too bad of a price. Just to let you know,
normally to rent a moped in Cozumel, it's twenty dollars per day.
So if you put that at a monthly price, yeah,
that's like six hundred dollars,
absolutely not worth it.
But doing a little negotiations
and finding the right people on the island is the best way to do it.
And we did end up deciding to spend thirty
three dollars per person for the month to get collision insurance.
That way, if something happens, we don't have to pay three thousand
dollars for the scooter along with, you know, bodily injuries
God forbid something happens.
So for thirty-three dollars, I mean that's like a dollar and ten cents per day.
That peace of mind,
knowing that if something does happen, we're going to be OK.
So once again, that goes back to about one
hundred and sixty-six dollars per scooter for a full month.
It's possible that maybe you could
purchase one on the island and then sell it at the end for cheaper.
To be honest, I just didn't feel like
looking into how to register it, what that whole process was.
So in this case, we just said,
let's go out and rent them if we can get a good price,
and we did. So we'll see you guys for the next cost here.
All right guys, so our next cost for the month here
in Cozumel was on food. As you can probably imagine,
food can get very expensive if you're eating out every single day.
Now, the thing is about Cozumel is there's a lot of restaurants that are,
yes, very much tourist-priced,
and then there are some that are more local-priced.
Like we went to this place called Mr.
Taco maybe 17 times in the month that we
were in Cozumel, one because it was close and two, because it was super delicious.
So the total amount that I spent on one month of eating out at restaurants every
single day was four hundred and thirty nine dollars.
Now, I didn't eat at home pretty much a single time.
I don't think we cooked a single meal because it was quite inexpensive to eat
out and we wanted to really enjoy the island and not spend the time cooking.
So that's a way to keep your costs a bit
lower if you wanted to eat at home. All right and right after restaurants,
you're probably wondering what did we spend on alcoholic beverages?
So we did probably the majority of our beverage consumption at home.
I do want to mention, though,
in the restaurant's prices, there's a few restaurant costs
in that last set that had some drinks mixed in the bill,
it was too much work to separate them.
Just know that like, the restaurants costs includes some drinks
and then in this specific section,
there are drinks we purchased just from the grocery store to have it home.
And then there's also places we went just to have a drink.
And so the total we spent on drinks per
person for the month was one hundred and sixty-five U.S. dollars.
We are right outside Ego
Gym, by the way, I look really tired because I'm up at the crack of dawn.
But this is the gym that my host from my Airbnb actually recommended.
He showed me a few different spots.
This one's actually the furthest away
from where I'm staying, but still relatively well located downtown.
And it costs roughly 800 pesos for one month.
You can also do like weekly passes or
daily passes as well, but it's definitely cheaper for as much as
I'll plan on going to the gym probably five days a week to just purchase
the monthly pass, which is roughly like forty-three,
forty-five bucks. All right, guys, our next cost on the list
is to figure out how much it costs to do laundry.
So luckily there's a lot of lavanderias, as they call them,
all around here where you can go drop off your laundry and they can usually get it
done between one to two days. In Tulum for example,
you have to pay extra to get it done quicker.
Um, I think my dad already did his laundry and he was able to get it same day for about 50 pesos
for maybe two kilograms of laundry what I have. All right guys,
so I just dropped off my laundry and for about 3.5 kilograms,
it costs forty-five pesos, which is roughly two dollars and fifty cents.
And this place is amazing because they're
able to get it done already by 4 p.m. today, it's 2:30
so in an hour and a half. Next on the list is getting a haircut,
so I'm going to give you two different
options because when I first arrived, I got a relatively inexpensive haircut
that didn't turn out as well as I originally thought.
And then after I got a much nicer haircut
for still, in my opinion, as an American, a very good price.
And I've been keeping up with the routine about two haircuts per month
when I was in Colombia and when I was living in Tulum before,
because the prices are really affordable and they're really fresh cuts
so I might as well keep them fresh. (Speaking Spanish)
(Conversing in Spanish)
So for a haircut here, it is 50 pesos, round that into U.S. dollars,
that's $2.50 for a haircut.
You heard it yourself,
we just got a fresh cut for two dollars and fifty cents.
So if you're looking for a really good barber, actually the best barber in all
of Cozumel, you can come down here to La Barber.
It's about one hundred and eighty pesos for a men's haircut
and so they are going to give us some fresh cuts here.
You got my padre right here, man, he is lookin' fresh.
So like I showed you in the other
haircut I've gotten guys, you can get them as low as 50 pesos
but it wasn't that great of a haircut. Here
you can pay a little bit more and get the best haircut on the island.
So come down here and check it out.
All right, guys, so I just wanted to share
with you another cost while living here in Cozumel.
Since I'm not returning
to the United States for a while, I need to do my appointments on the road.
So I got a dental cleaning here in Cozumel
and it only costs about fifty-three dollars.
And that's not with a special insurance payment.
I do have travel insurance, but it's reactionary travel insurance,
it doesn't pay for preventative like I have back in the United States.
So the next cost on our list is activities
and excursions you're going to be doing in Cozumel.
Obviously this can vary widely depending if you want super luxurious activities
like private tours and things like that, or if you're just going to scratch
the surface and maybe do a few things and maybe hang out by the beach while
you're in Cozumel. For us, we did a little bit of everything
so I'll read to you some of the activity
costs from various things we did around the island.
So we did a snorkel cruise for sixty-seven dollars.
I did a surf lesson for 40 US dollars.
I did a buggy rental for 30 US dollars plus fifteen dollars for insurance,
gas for the buggy rental was an additional twenty-three dollars.
Did a boat cruise over to Isla dela Pasion for thirty-three US dollars.
My cousin and I did a bike rental around
the island, which cost us about twenty-seven dollars.
Then we went to the Chankanaab Adventure Park
so entry, plus we went scuba diving as well
there, a beginner discover
scuba dive. And so right there is the total we spent on activities.
I will say if you want to learn more about
some of the activities we did, make sure you check out the entire video I have
that's about 10 things to do here in Cozumel, Mexico.
It will make your life so much easier and give you more of a detailed idea
on what each one of those excursions included.
All right,
so the last and final cost I'll be sharing with you guys are the remaining
transportation costs that I haven't yet listed.
So one of them will be my first ride to Cozumel.
I had to take a taxi from the Cancun
airport down to Playa del Carmen in order to catch the ferry.
So the taxi was about 50 US dollars, but it was split three ways.
Then I paid thirteen dollars to take
the ferry from Playa del Carmen to Cozumel for a one-way ticket.
During the one month that I rode my moped
around, it cost me about twenty-one US dollars in gas for the entire month.
And then on my last day in Cozumel, I took a taxi from my place in Cozumel
to the airport and it cost me about five USD.
So yeah, guys, that is all of the cost that I spent for one month in Cozumel.
As you can probably imagine and tell
by this video, I did so many things in this month that I was here.
I truly feel like I know this island super
well and I can give you a lot of great recommendations.
And that's why I will tell you to go
and check out my other videos I did on Cozumel.
Ten things to do in Cozumel,
as well as a full Cozumel travel guide, which is similar to this
but it's more in-depth on information, whereas this is more focused on the costs.
So I'll drop a link in the description below so you guys can check out both
of those videos, will be super helpful for you
planning a trip to Cozumel.
Yeah, guys, that's pretty much it for this video.
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