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Dont Drink Water Cancún

18 Reviews I've been to Cancun 30-40 times and I don't believe I've ever gotten sick from bad water in the hotel zone, but there are a few things some of you need to know: 1. Chichen Itza is NOT in the Cancun...

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Health/Safety Puerto Vallarta

30 Reviews Just because someone like mightyrita on here is saying that these warnings are foolish, have been lucky not to have experienced any problems, not to say that all areas are bad, but you have to...

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General Warning Info Mexico City

59 Reviews Was there in 83. Stuck there a week as med student b/c of student Visa BS. LOTS of Rats!! Cabbies tried to rip people off go to cheap hotel in rathole hoods. Charge too much for fare. Use sitios ONLY!...

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Swimming Cabo San Lucas

9 Reviews Even though the resorts in Los Cabos are located on the Pacific Ocean you can NOT swim there. The riptides are much to strong and dangerous. There are some resorts on the bay that you can swim in as...

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Police / Tijuana Jail Tijuana

33 Reviews It's said that Tijuana Police (Policia) Officers are very friendly and helpful. On the other side I heard that Mexican police is corruptive and often want to rip especially foreign and rich hehe (US)...

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Health/Safety Mazatlán

10 Reviews Be sure you are aware of the colors of flags flying on the beaches of Mazatlan. They are as follows: Yellow Flag: Caution White Flag: Jellyfish Red Flag: Danger (usually a stong undertow, but could...

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Driving Monterrey

7 Reviews All taxis in Monterrey are painted green, most are VW, nissan or little chevy, please avoid to take taxis with black windows, just for safety, and be shure to see the taximeter running at the beginin,...

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Water Dangers Acapulco

10 Reviews * *It gets hot and is muggy in Acapulco so drinking fluids before you go out and throughout the day is a must *Once you get dehydrated, it's too late for you! You'll take days to recover which could...

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Food / Drink Ensenada

3 Reviews Food stalls like this can be seen along the road in Mexico, selling such things as cured olives--Acetunas, Bee Honey--Meil, de Abeja, Tamales de Elote or drinks. Be careful when buying any food that...

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Beware of strong sun Cancún

13 Reviews The greatest menace that we faced in Mexico, more than malaria, dengue or "Montezuma's revenge", was... the sun. It is really strong, and though taking all the recommended precautions, we all got more...

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Legal Puerto Vallarta

5 Reviews We did not have a problem driving in the area and in the remote locations we visited, but this is something that our car rental agency warned us about when we got the car. If you are stopped by the...

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Transportation Mexico City

41 Reviews In mexico city i used the metro almost every day because its sometimes far easier than facing the traffic with a car. I am tall, tanned but not dark skinned and blue eyed - not your average "mexican"...

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Other... Cabo San Lucas

11 Reviews I just saw the Gas station attendant, when you gave him 200 Peso, he shown you that you just gave 20 Peso. I had experience on this situation before. The gas station is the one locates at nearest...

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Fraud / Crime Tijuana

14 Reviews Ok since no one has posted in awhile about this I will update you. TJ is not the best place at the moment, if possible stay away. Not only is it not safe to walk around at night, but now gangs...

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Financial/Shopping Mazatlán

11 Reviews I thought when I saw what was posted,was really a warning..I suspect the post. We too went to La Jolla, which is right down the street from our timeshare..these people expected us to sell our...

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Local Dogs Monterrey

2 Reviews Dogs, in the sense we normally consider them, at least from the perspective of American or European societies, are pets. Here they are pets as well, but often are not as forgiving of trespassers as...

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Timeshare Cancún

12 Reviews It will be so much easier if you do this through a lawyer because this way, you won't have to fight or waste your money and time, and you will get the cancellation and refunds in a few days, instead...

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Attractions Puerto Vallarta

5 Reviews One thing I did not do (and learned my lesson!) was to check with the guys at the reception desk of our hotel before going to Chino's Paradise. I just relied on the information provided in the...

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Other Warnings Mexico City

22 Reviews The hardest thing about traveling in Mexico City is keeping your feet clean while you frolic all over the city in your flip-flops. Mexico City isn't the cleanest place in the world, and as anyone who...

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Drinking Water Cabo San Lucas

5 Reviews I dont know what to do every time I have been to Mexico I always get sick with a stomach virus. And I always stay away from the tap water. I think you get contamination from taking a shower and they...

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Border / Security Tijuana

9 Reviews Watch the traffic - direction signs. Do not miss the right exit driving from San Diego (I-5 or I-805) unless you want to drive a car to Mexico instead of walk there. The last U.S. exit is called...

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Weather Monterrey

3 Reviews During rain season (september-december) the rain can be very furious and intense, that is the reason because streets become into deep rivers and turn your car into a light boat. so be careful where...

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Alcohol and being safe Cancún

9 Reviews The main strip can be extremely dangerous after a few drinks. Cross at the crosswalks with the light or you may wind up going into the light. If you stand at the corner awhile someone might even help...

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Financial/Shopping Puerto Vallarta

8 Reviews On our first trip to Mexico we did find the various vendors rather startling because it was so different from home, but that's the point of traveling to foreign countries, isn't it? Now, after 11...

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Food and Restaurants Mexico City

15 Reviews There's something else you should be careful with: food!! Our food is delicious, but it can be aggressive for foreigners, whose stomachs aren't used to hot stuff. So watch what you eat. This applies...

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Crime in other states...

by pedroebc

In PLAYA DEL CARMEN.. the hotel Caribbean Paradise has a really bad reputation of a hotel that your belongings are stolen from your room. big complains of french people.. French travel forum routard.comIn hostels take care your money... in bars people stealing bags. Warnings to attend private partiesCases of robbers stealing bags in buses from long distance buses.. common cases.. PALENQUE to SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS - TULUM. Be aware when you put your bag under your sit or besides.. Sporadic cases of robbers with machine guns stoping buses at highway from ACAPULCO - PUERTO ESCONDIDO at night.. sometimes robbery with violence... try not to drive at night the highway. Also from Palenque to San Cristobal at night some cases of robberies.Take yoru warnings if you smoke weed in the beach, or if you walk or swim at the dark in the beaches in Puerto Escondido, Zipolite and Mazunte.CAMPING IN...

WARNINGS IN MEXICO CITY and MEXICO TRAVEL ALERT

by pedroebc

THE CRIME IN MEXICO became a problem after the crisis of the economy in 1994 ( and still in soem places) when Mexico suffered the highest devaluation and inflation of 10 000%( belive it), narcotrafic exist in Mexico maybe 30 years of narcopolitics, something like organised crime in Italy or Rusia,and high demand of drugs in USA. The dangerous cities in Mexico are Ciudad Juarez and Tamaulipas in north Mexico border with USA.Some warnings in Durango state, Sinaloa, Nuevo Leon, Tijuana.MEXICO CITY IS SAFE has been declared safe for tourism, journalists think that the local goverment pact with drug cartels and mantain a peaceful area and just a transit place.Murders now all around Mexico is involved with narcotrafic and people involved. Kidnapping is only happening with mexicans and cases with people lot of money in the border States with USA. We are suffering the same situation that...

...MEXICAN MONEY... visum... insurance

by pedroebc

...HERE ARE THE AUTHORIZED BILLS AND COINS FROM MEXICO.. take in mind there is one new bill of 20 pesos that is made with plastic paper, its the only one bill ! ..NEW plastic BILLS of 200, 100, 50, 20 pesos .new bill of 1000 pesos, with the image of HIDALGO... ALSO ONLY bills of 20, 50, 200 pesos have NEW PLASTIC BILLS PRESENTATION be sure to know the mexican money otherwise one smart guy will give you in change old bills of mexico.. and you will be cheatedEXCHANGE RATEAverage FEB 2012 ( buy, spot)www.elfinanciero.com.mxI DOLLAR - 12.5 PESOS1 EURO - 17 PESOS1 POUND - 21 PESOSSee in the link Banxico "Nuevo Billete de 1000 Pesos" New bill of 1000 pesosnew of 100, new of 200, new of 50, new 20SOME STUFF ABOUT VISUM....If you CROSS TO MEXICO BY BUS, you must ask first in your country if you need visum to go in MEXICO, you MUST ask in the mexican border for a stamp in your passport or pay for...

Sharing the roads

by DSwede

Driving in Mexico can be fun, but also requires a fair amount of concentration.You will have to dodge lots of unmarked topes (speed bumps), pot holes and generally bad roads. See my other 'transportation' tip for more details here.But add to that the fact that many like to enjoy the nights and the local police are much more liberal to let drunk driving go without penalty than in other countries, and the roads at night can have some additional hazards.For example, many will drink in public plazas before driving home, or as shown in the photo, you can even buy alcohol directly into the car. If you you are going somewhere at night, think about where the partying crowd may be and either choose other routes or opt for a taxi.

TAX REFUND IN MEXICO for tourists

by pedroebc

Since june 2008 tourist can ask tax refunds if they want, when they bought SOME mexican products in Mexico more than 200 pesos, less than 3000 pesos, some products and brands participate.You need to include in the invoice your name, and country only.. then ask refund in advance to next companies :The next 4 companies offer the service of refound in Mexico.Global Refund Group, Premier Tax Free,Yvesam Retornos Mundiales Next airports offer tax refounds in Mexico : DF, Cancún, Guadalajara, Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta.http://www.premiertaxfree.com****Premier Tax Free Mexico S.A de C.V. Lope de Vega 117-303Col. Polanco, C.P. 11560 México D.F.Tel: +52(55)5027 0146Fax: +52(55)3873 0413Email: info@mx.premiertaxfree.comOficina Quintana RooPremier Tax FreeAv. Tulum 200-314(Plaza Mexico)Mza 16, Smza 4, C.P. 77500,Cancun Quintana RooTel: +52(998)892 3846Fax: +52(998)883 9977****...

MEXICO TRAVEL WARNING

by pedroebc

In MEXICO CITY around Reforma avenue and Zocalo (downtown) you can find new touristic police, they know english and they are trustful, help people for free.... take it in mind.. tourist info offices near tourist points. also tourist info centers outside anthropology msueum and outside bellas artes palace.there are some guys wearing brown uniform like police, begging for coins, they are just musicians not police, so dont be cheated with money..BEFORE TRAVEL TO MEXICO put safe locks in your bags or roll with plastic your bags, machines sometimes break the bags or some bad employes at airport take sometimes things from your baggage ( example: my battery charger, my brother mp3player, my sister Palm etc..) When you arrive to the INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT , take authorized taxis , you buy the ticket for the taxi just in the office in the right side of the international arrivals gate, prices...

Inmigration, Visas, suggestions, complains.

by pedroebc

VISAS in MEXICOA passport is necessary traveling to Mexico, but US and Canadian citizens need only show a birth certificate or a naturalization certificate (www.embassyofmexico.org) Tourists need the free tourist card (FM-T), from the offices or on the aircraft of airlines operating into Mexico, and at land borders. Ask for at least 30 days (maximum 90 or 180 days). Tourist cards are available ask in mexican embassy if you need visa before travelling. Depending the nationality turists can get 3 to 6 months as tourist , later apply to inmigration office www.inami.gob.mx for an extention of other 3 months if it apply,during this time if you do not tramit your FM3 form (as legal citizen) with a job, study or marry..... you have to leave mexico and you can come back to stay longer ( be sure to show cash to the officer if you say you are going to travel more).. Depending of your nationality...

EMBASSIES IN MEXICO CITY

by pedroebc

EMBASSIES IN MEXICO CITYEmbajada de Alemania/ Lord Byron 737, Col. Polanco, ---------- tel 52 83 22 00 Embajada de Canada/ Schiller 529, Col. Polanco, ---- 5724-7900 Embajada Britanica/ RIo Lerma 71 Col. Cuauhtemoc 55) 5207 2089 / 5207 2233 ------- (55) 5242 8517 (55) 5242 8500/ ( Embajada de Espana SPAIN/Galileo 114 Col. Polanco 11560 Mexico, D.F ------ 52822974 Embajada de Suizahttp://www.eda.admin.ch/mexico_emb/s/home.html Torre Optima, piso 11,Paseo de las Palmas No. 405, Lomas de ChapultepecTel. (01 55) 55.20.30.03,52822974,52822271e-mail: vertretung@mex.rep.admin.ch Embajada de Estados Unidos/ Reforma 305 Cuautémoc Mexico, D.F -------52099100 Embajada de Argentina/ Blvd.. Manuel Avila Camacho 1, 7º. Piso Plaza ComermexLomas de Chapultepec Mexico, D.F ------ 55209430 al 32 Embajada de Australia/ Ruben Dario 55, Polanco, Mexico, D.F ------- 55315225 Embajada de Francia/ Campos...

Driving in Mexico

by jeanfinney

First, please drive defensively, the rules of the road - all those carefully painted lines, warning signs, blind curves, etc - do not seem to exist for many Mexicans. They will pass when they feel like it. So be quite alert! Also do NOT drive at night on lonely roads, just don't, pull off at dusk at any kind of lodging, start at dawn, whatever. The toll roads and big highways are ok, but not the little roads and byways. For instance, the road up to San Cristobal from Palenque can be dangerous at night, and I mean dangerous as in bandits armed with machine guns. I met some people two years ago who had had that experience on the night bus from Palenque (another NO NO; do not take local night buses on little country routes; the main ones are fine. ) - adios forever to that nice camera, that handy wad of cash - The banditos are strong, tough, well armed and could care less about some gringo...

EMBASSIES IN MEXICO WEBSITES/ TRADE CHAMBERS...

by pedroebc

**********************EMBASSIES LOCATION IN MEXICO CITYEMBASSIES IN MEXICO CITYhttp://www.sre.gob.mx/acreditadas/default.htmhttp://www.delmex.ec.europa.eu/DETAILED MAP OF MEXICO CITYhttp://guiaroji.aol.com.mx********************** Embassy of USAhttp://mexico.usembassy.gov/www.amcham.com.mx Embassy of the Republic of France www.francia.org.mx www.consul-fr.org.mxwww.cfmci.comEmbassy of the Republic of Italy. www.pentanet.com.mx/Embitaly/ www.camaraitaliana.com.mxwww.ice.it/estero2/cittamessicowww.italcultmexico.om.mx Embassy of Spain embaes@prodigy.net.mxwww.camescom.com.mxwww.centrocultesp.org.mxEmbassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland www.embajadabritanica.com.mxwww.britchamexico.comwww.britishcouncil.org.mxEmbassy of the Federal Republic of Germany www.embajada-alemana.org.mxwww.camexa.com.mxwww.goethe.de/mexiko Embassy of the Hellenic Republic (Greece)...

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Q: Going to Puerto Vallarta for Cino de Mayo. Never been to PV before. Any tips you can provide me?

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