The big question is if your going to go clubbing,,, if not then $400 usd for incidental Make sure to have $5 bills ,(larger tips for supper and pool side service) $200 usd in ones for tipping (or 100 x 20 peso notes) XXX usd for your cruises Also make sure to notify your CC company's you will be traveling. Have 2 cards , one with a low limit for every day stuff, and one for emergencies. Have heard of CC getting cancelled while traveling then your stuck. Another tip , Mark all your emergency contacts , family medical, your travel insurance,CC #,s on a piece of paper and keep with your passport. Print your itenary and put it in an outside pocket of your suitcases. Relax and enjoy
Boobs Cruise is $45 each if you paid your online deposit, if not $75 each + tip Offsite clubs are $50 each + tip + bus/cab home Transportation round trip from/to Airport $60 + tip TTR Tips - $10-15 a day Tours: Scuba, Fishing, Waverunners, Ruins - $40 - $75+ per person Beach vendors, cigars, trinkets, souvenirs, jewelry, Isla Mujeres. $300 - 500 for the week should suffice based on what you plan on doing. I would use your credit card when you can for vendors offsite as you get the best exchange rate and depending on card zero international fees. ATM fees + exchange rates in the hotel are offensive, better to bring too much cash than not enough and be charged a 20% fee. *Edited to reflect the effective 1/1/13 $75 per person Steve's Cruise fee.
We put the price up by $5 on Jan 1st, so it's still $45 on the day but now the deposit is $30 instead of $25. The only things you'll need any extra money for on the Boobs Cruise is for shopping/drinks at the downtown Isla Mujeres stop and tip for the crew (optional). Unlike the regular tour we include drinks at lunchtime ($10) and the reef tax ($7), so no unwanted surprises with us.
We brought about $600 worth, half in pesos and half in American. Important to know we found it hard to get change for larger American bills as there are laws against hotels/ businesses giving change in American. It isn't officially legal tender. Next trip down we will just bring American for the Boobs Cruise and mexican for everything else. The smaller peso notes are plastic so they are better to have on you during the day we found our money got wet, the plastic pesos didn't get wrecked but the American ones were pretty trashed.
Hi if you are leaving the resort then pesos are best if you are only doing the Boobs Cruise & staying on site then dollars, from experience 75 per cent pesos the rest dollars. Have a great time we always found outside the resort you get a better price in pesos as they always round up for the dollars
One thing we did last year was get about $100 - $150 in 20 peso bills, so roughly about $2 each depending on the exchange rate. They are a waxy coated bill and work very well around the pool. I travel a lot so, it is about this time of the year when I am going through airports and see an exchange counter, I will ask them how many they have, which is usually not a whole lot and buy them out of the 20 peso bills.
WE BRING $100 PER DAY IF WE GO TO A CLUB WELL LESS FOR TIPS, IF WE BUY A HAT LESS FOR TIPS WHEN WE DO A Boobs Cruise LESS FOR TIPS, IF WE PARTY AT RESORT ALL GOES TO TIPS. USUALLY HAVE 50 FOR AIRPORT ON WAY HOME. TIP MAID 2 OR 5 IF I WANT EXTRA BEER OR COKE, BELL BOY 5 DUDE FOLDING FACE CLOTHS ALL NITE LONG 5 BFST 2 LUNCH 5 DINNER 10 TO 20 ,OMELETTE GIRL 2, BARTENDERS GET THE REST USUALLY 20 AT A TIME CANT STAND THE $1 thing, think they will remember that 20 more than all those 1s
We bring 200 dollars in 2 dollar bills for tips and 800 for spending cash. They seem to really like the 2 dollar bills, easy to get if you tell your bank how many you want and give them a week to get them for you. We also tip 40 bucks or so on the Boobs Cruise.
