Isla Mujeres - Isla Mujeres - TravBuddy

If you're in Cancun and you're looking for a getaway. Away from all the americans and away from the giant hotel resorts. Isla Mujeres is a great choice. The ferry is cheap and runs every hour, all day long.

It's like visiting a postcard. White sand beaches and crystal clear water. It's difficult to explain how beautiful it is.. you just have to experience it yourself.
The island is very small to, a fisherman's island, so it's not too touristy.. yet. Which is good.

A day at Isla Mujeres is a great way to spend the day. You can go on a boat ride, snorkling.. or just relax by the water. Remember sun screen.. even though it's a bit cloudy. Believe me, you will get burned!

This is a review about the small island off Cancun. It can be reached by ferry. 30 minutes travel time, $17 round trip.

You went to Cancun. The flight was cheap, so was the hotel. You figured it couldn't be that bad. It is that bad. It's that bad before you even get there. On the Boston-Cancun direct flight (thanks, Jetblue) you're surrounded by 19 year old kids from Merrimac College. They're playing Mariah Carrey and Soulja Boy on ipod sounddocks and they're already drunk. They're like CANNNCUUNNN. I'M FUCCKIINNN DRUNNNKK. WE'RE GOIN TO CANCUNNNN DRUNKKKK I'M DRUNNK YESSS!!!

Your hotel and the whole city are a lot like the plane was. Maybe you should have gone to Orlando. Maybe you should have stayed home and spent your vacation money on mushrooms. The Cancun is drunk and it is rowdy and you just want to get away from it. Somebody mentions that there is an island you can go to. You say, "an island? like what kind of island? a hawaiian island, a statten island, a lost island? wait i don't care. i need to get away from the cancun. put me on that fuckin island man."

You pay $17 and you get on the ferry to go to the island. Isla Mujeres, it's called. You're sitting on the ferry and a mexican guy comes up to you with a laminated photo of a golf cart and a scooter. He says "scooter you pay 35 dollars or golf cart the pay 45 dollars. Is you have the full day."

You don't even hesitate. You whip out $35, put it in the man's hand and say scooter me.

On the island you get off the boat, and the Mexican guy with the laminated photo leads you to the scooter rental office. A second Mexican guy is there, and he gives you a key and says "yellow Honda 50 cc." You're not a real man, so you have no idea what 50 cc means. You walk over to the Scooter, get on it, put the key in and sit there. The 50 cc guy comes over to you and says "you start like this" and he starts it. "this brake. this go forward. you use scooter before?" You have absolutely not used a scooter before, but you nod at him dumbly and he walks away. You rev the scooter and it doesn't move and the 50 cc guy comes back and stares at you and goes "you know, kickstand?" He's horrified. You look in the man's eyes and you know that he is questioning the sanity of giving a yellow 50 cc scooter to a drunk, inept kid just because the kid has $35. But he shakes it off and helps you with the kickstand. You rev, you go forward. You nearly hit a parked car, swerve to a stop, and then ease down a one way street going the wrong way.

You ride around for 30 minutes without incident, except that you almost kill a middle aged woman wearing a sombrero with a canadian flag sticking out of it, but you blame it on her for not watching where she's going. You get the hang of it, ride around another hour. Then you go to the beach.

You think "wow this is the most beautiful water and beach I have ever seen in my entire life it looks just like a corona commercial!!!" And, there are bars on this beach. The bars give you corona's for $2. $2! I'll take 15 of them, thanks. You tip generously.

A few hours later you're tired of the beach and you get back on your scooter. You're so much better at riding your scooter now that you're drunk. You are Dale fucking Earndhart on a scooter. You ride with your shirt off. You don't know what your Kilometers speedometer actually means but you drive fast. You feel like James Dean, minus the fiery death part.

Somehow you live. It's the end of the day, so you have to give the scooter back. But you love Cancun now. Cancun is a place where there is an entire island where, if you give them $35, they will give you a scooter and let you drink and drive all day. Viva Cancun.