Soggy Peso, Isla Mujeres


Out front at the Soggy Peso


Out front at the Soggy Peso


Out back at the Soggy Peso


All of our friends at the Soggy Peso


Vanessa was quick to snag us some seats at the bar. The people on the right were from Green Bay.


Packers koozie and Superbowl belt.


Packers pennants, cheesehead and Wisconsin license plate.


Josh and Damian


Kelly feeding Damian ceviche.


Damian spitting out ceviche.


Kelly feeding Dallas ceviche.


Josh’s ceviche order.


Conch shell as a napkin holder.


They accept USD at a lower rate.

Our last stop on the golf cart tour of Isla Mujeres was the Soggy Peso. As I came to realize later on in the trip, the Soggy Peso, like many of the bars that are not downtown or on the main strip – Avenida Hidalgo, is a little B&B-style hotel. As with the others, it has like zero curb appeal. In fact, if I was staying here and the taxi pulled up, I’d be like “Nuh-uh, take me somewhere else!” But when you walk into the back it is so cute and quaint. This hotel aspect would also explain why the Soggy Peso bar appeared to have a swimming pool!

Soggy Peso has a little bit of outside seating and then a four-sided bar underneath a palapa. On the underside of the roof people from all over the world had hung things from home – school banners, caps, sporting team apparel, etc. I saw several examples of Packer’s gear, including pennants, a koozie, the Superbowl championship belt and a cheesehead. There was even a Wisconsin license plate. Oh, and there were a few people there visiting from Green Bay.

For some reason Kelly started feeding ceviche on tortilla chips to people. She would load up the chip way across the bar and then walk it over to each person. Funny thing is that Damian, who hates seafood, didn’t know what it was, so when Kelly shoved it in his mouth, he immediately took it out. And then someone else ate it! Josh ended up ordering his own ceviche. They have a medium and a large size. He got the medium and it was huge! I didn’t eat any because I ate at the last couple places, but everyone said it was delicious.

Couple other notes – While the last bar was using conch shells for faucets, the Soggy Peso was using them for napkin holders. I saw quite a few bars doing this throughout our trip. Makes me want to try it at home! Also, there were a lot of vendors in town selling conch shells, and seashells in general.

One other note – The conversion rate. Soggy Peso, and a few other places, would accept U.S. dollars, but at a conversion rate of 10:1. So, this makes things convenient if you’re running out of pesos, but is about 2% less than the going rate. Actually, Adam said he was paying with dollar for the whole trip, using a 10:1 rate. He was getting screwed a bit, but I guess it made things easier for him.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *