Thirty-six years ago, NYT journalist John Brannon Albright wrote about his visit to Isla Mujeres, when the ferry was 50 cents & you could rent hammocks or tent space downtown by the beach for $2.50/night. The "desolate Hotel Zazil-Ha Bojorquez" he describes is now the Mia. Isla Mujeres a Budget Alternative to Cozumel & Cancun Published April 5, 1981 The article begins: "Isla Mujeres, off the northeastern tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, is an attractive, low-cost alternative to nearby Cozumel and Cancun. The island, six miles long and half a mile wide at its widest point, was named ''Island of Women'' by Spaniards who arrived in 1518 (sic 1517) and found many erotic female idols there. At the southern tip, the highest point, stand the ruins of a small Mayan temple. At the northern end, on a rocky promontory pointing like a finger toward the Gulf of Mexico, stands the eight-story Zazil-Ha Bojorquez, a hotel knocked o...
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