Mexico Insight

Mexico City’s airport is one of the country’s busiest outlets for over-the-counter currency exchange, and it’s also a bellwether of currency exchange rates; news programs often quote the retail rates being offered at the airport as a type of ‘exchange rate barometer’, particularly for trade between the Mexican Peso and US Dollar.
This week, a significant […]

Following our market research and member questionnaire in the last quarter of 2008, we have today launched our new-look Mexico Newsletter.
The revised publication retains its name and popular clean design, and is now laid out so as to be more easily read on-screen, which many people asked for.  It’s also designed to be more integrated with our web […]

Two key attractions about owning property in Mexico are related not so much to initial cost of the land and buildings, but instead to the affordable ongoing costs associated with having your name on the property deed; these are: low property taxes, and low building and maintenance costs.
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a moniker […]

We’ve written recently about currency movements, and in particular about how the low value of the US Dollar last summer was making Europe less attractive to travelers earning in Dollars.
In the same breath, we also noted that currency markets were notoriously hard to predict.
Today, the US Dollar has made a boisterous comeback on the world […]

Renting a car in Mexico is more expensive than renting a car in the USA. The principal reason for this appears to be the additional cost of the insurance required to protect the vehicle.
When you book a Mexico car rental online, the fee presented on-screen includes a basic insurance policy.   If you don’t extend that basic cover, […]

If you take a road trip across Mexico, sooner or later you will almost certainly come across a military checkpoint.
The checkpoints are set-up on the fly and may appear on any highway at any time of day or night.  Some check points stop every vehicle for inspection, although most create a traffic bottle-neck to slow […]

When you book a hotel or travel package using Mexperience, our system offers you a number of optional services to compliment your reservation.
Airport Transfers: Booking a transfer from the airport to the hotel where you are staying is the simplest way of arranging your ground transportation in Mexico – especially if you don’t speak much Spanish, […]

Although Patzcuaro has distinct features and characteristics, it is also much like many other provincial Mexican towns, and the daily routines and challenges you may encounter living here are similar in nature to those you’ll encounter in other places across Mexico.
There are expats living here who came to the town, fell in love with it, […]