Low season for cruise ships is approaching in Cozumel. That means some real tour bargains are available.

You can now take a 2 to 2½ hour glass bottom boat snorkel tour for just $29 per adult, more than a third off the usual price.

Mexican's remembered the Battle of Puebla last week, on May 5th.

The 5 de Mayo marks the defeat of the French army in the Mexican city of Puebla in 1862.

Celebrated widely by Mexicans in the United States, the day is not an obligatory federal holiday in Mexico, but voluntary.

FEATURE: There it was, parked on the side of the cobblestone street just off the downtown square of Cozumel.

Nearly camouflaged by hordes of passing tourists carrying bags stuffed with tacky puca shell necklaces and coconut heads, and gigantic fluorescent sombreros hanging from their necks

Work started on the construction of a new 'luxury marina complex' in Cozumel earlier this month.

The Mexican Secretary for Tourism, Rodolfo Elizondo Torres, and the head of the National Fund for Tourism Promotion, Miguel Gómez Mont, visited the island to lay the first stone.

The project, called Marina Cozumel, will have space for 330 boats, hotels, residential properties, shops, a pier, pathes, cycle ways and public spaces.

The small town of El Cedral in the south of Cozumel is getting ready for its popular annual festival.

This year the Festival of El Cedral and the Fiestas of Santa Cruz will be held from Friday, April 25 to Monday, May 5.

Our latest hot property, Las Ventanas de Cozumel, is a planned development of 64 three bedroom units in a "gated setting" downtown.

The 3 bedroom units are priced from $179,900 to $216,900.

Hearts Abroad, a fledgling US healthcare nonprofit from Colorado, has high hopes for the impact they will have in Cozumel.

In June, they will bring an autism expert and a child psychologist to conduct a workshop for social workers, teachers and parents.

Autism is a bio-neurological developmental disability that usually appears in children before the age of 3.