{"id":2937,"date":"2016-12-02T17:11:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T23:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanblasrivieranayarit.com\/en\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2016-12-02T17:13:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T23:13:17","slug":"what-happened-to-the-glamorous-playa-hermosa-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanblasrivieranayarit.com\/en\/blog\/what-happened-to-the-glamorous-playa-hermosa-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to the glamorous Playa Hermosa hotel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The good old days of this luxurious resort where <\/span><b>Jim Morrison, Liz Taylor <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and big\u00a0<\/span><b>Hollywood<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> stars from the 50&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s spent unbridled vacations, are long gone. Today it\u2019s just a decaying ghost of that former <\/span><b>San Blas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which some still remember.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many stories are told about this creepy port hideout, ever since the unfortunate opening in 1951, in which the then Mexican president, <\/span><b>Miguel Alem\u00e1n Vald\u00e9s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, could not bear the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sanblasrivieranayarit.com\/en\/are-mosquitoes-stopping-you-you-should-read-this\/\"><b>midges<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and simply dropped the ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the early 1950s, and <\/span><b>San Blas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> looked like an exotic beach destination, recently discovered, and the fashionable couple, <\/span><b>Liz Taylor &amp; Richard Burton<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, made it one of their favorite love nests. Kept out of the inopportune reflectors.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2931\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2931\" src=\"http:\/\/sanblasrivieranayarit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MX13278201330077.jpg\" alt=\"Photo via mexicoenfotos.com\" width=\"640\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanblasrivieranayarit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MX13278201330077.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sanblasrivieranayarit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MX13278201330077-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sanblasrivieranayarit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MX13278201330077-114x71.jpg 114w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via mexicoenfotos.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more than 20 years, world famous figures like <\/span><b>Jim Morrison<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> used to party hard here, some say that in 1969, he had such a wild psychedelic vacation, that he even got inspired to compose the enigmatic song <\/span><b><i>L.A. Woman<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and his bizarre nickname <\/span><b><i>Mr. Mojo Risin&#8217;.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some others say that strange rituals were carried out on that occasion, which left the place &#8220;cursed forever\u201d, maybe that is why in the years to come, fewer and fewer people frequented this site, causing it to decline gradually in the 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many people blame the <a href=\"https:\/\/sanblasrivieranayarit.com\/en\/are-mosquitoes-stopping-you-you-should-read-this\/\"><strong>midges<\/strong><\/a> of the abandonment in which luxury tourism fell in this historic port, the fact is that in 2002, <\/span><b>Hurricane Kenna<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> finished lashing the place, leaving only ruins, murmurs and dark echoes of the former opulence and extravagance that it housed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to feel the strange vibes that envelops this place, dare to visit it when you go round the beautiful <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/sanblasrivieranayarit.com\/en\/the-magical-sunsets-at-borrego-beach\/\">Borrego beach<\/a>,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> we highly recommend doing it during the day, since at night you never know what one can find.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find out some other mysterious <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sanblasrivieranayarit.com\/en\/legends-of-san-blas\/\"><b>legends of San Blas<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>#AllToBeDiscovered #SanBlasRivieraNayarit #LikeSanBlas<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good old days of this luxurious resort where Jim Morrison, Liz Taylor and big\u00a0Hollywood stars from the 50&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s spent unbridled vacations, are long gone. 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