Two decades have passed since Mexperience was launched on the internet, on June 10th, 2002. For the curious who might wonder how the site has evolved since then, you can see what that first version of Mexperience looked like here on the internet archive.

For 20 years, Mexperience has been helping to attract and guide new visitors, friends, and foreign residents to these extraordinary lands—people who bring their energy and goodwill, and who are making lasting contributions that extend far beyond their individual efforts.

Helping you to discover Mexico

A consistent focus of the work throughout the years has been to cultivate a website that makes Mexico accessible, with a clear intention to bring visibility about the value Mexico offers to visitors as well as to potential and current foreign residents.

By publishing this helpful content, more people are learning about the outstanding opportunities and benefits Mexico has to offer, and through carefully interwoven content and service connections Mexperience also helps you to take those next steps—which move your plans from concept to realization: whether that’s a vacation, or a complete change of lifestyle.

With sincere thanks

I’d like to thank you for visiting and reading Mexperience as you consider your Mexico plans; for recommending the site to your friends and family, and for supporting our associates and sponsors with your patronage.

I am also thankful to the associates and sponsors, whose services help facilitate our readers’ plans and intentions, and the trade they generate through our referrals helps to keep this website online.

Sites of the size and scope of Mexperience don’t happen through the efforts of any one person, but through the earnest care and efforts of many.  This work is blessed by the presence of talented people around it who, as if by some form of alchemy, appear when they are needed. They know who they are. I have been, and remain, sincerely grateful for their presence, and for the contributions they make to this work.

Matthew Harrup
June 10, 2022
Cuernavaca, Mexico

Matthew Harrup is founder and editor of Mexperience.com

We’re here to help you discover what Mexico offers beyond the cookie-cutter brochures and explore the opportunities it offers for your lifestyle & leisure.

Mexperience helps you experience more of Mexico

Our guides and articles are written by people who know Mexico intimately. The knowledge we share helps you to delve into details that help you make informed choices.

Everything we publish is offered free and openly to all.

Plan and realize a new lifestyle in Mexico

Mexperience accompanies you throughout your journey.  When you’re looking for a new lifestyle in Mexico, Mexperience is with you at every step—from those first key decisions about moving, to settling-in and cultivating a fruitful lifestyle everyday.

Planning or redefining your lifestyle: Our guide to living & lifestyles in Mexico offer valuable insights that help you consider important aspects about a move to Mexico, as well as every key practical matter you need to consider including living costs, obtaining residency permits, keeping in touch, managing your money & finances, importing and living with pets in Mexico—and more.

Discovering choices: Our detailed articles help you to Discover Mexico and share insights that help you consider your lifestyle choices.

Locations and accommodations: We publish detailed information that helps you to choose a location to live in Mexico, along with comprehensive guides to buying a home and renting property.

Making the move: Our guides also help you to move your belongings, and share insights about settling-in and adapting to Mexico.

Cultivating your lifestyle everyday: When you’re in Mexico, Mexperience continues to support you with local knowledge and guides that help you cultivate a fruitful home life, and we also share practical insights to managing your home and dwelling spaces, learning about the local customs & culture, provide support to help you learn or improve your Spanish. You’ll also find insights about cultivating your lifestyle, finding purpose and balance, and developing key skills that expats need to adapt to and thrive in Mexico.

Monthly newsletter: Every month, we publish a free newsletter about Mexico that shares local knowledge, helpful connections, and tips for better living, lifestyle, and leisure in Mexico.

Meaningful leisure experiences in Mexico:

When you want to discover Mexico on leisure a trip that’s defined by authenticity, we give you choices to explore and we can help you plan your trip.

Travel inspiration: Our regularly-updated articles about travel experiences in Mexico offer inspiration for your next visit, or if you’re living here, they share ideas for your next leisure trip.

Travel destinations: Our guides help you to discover Mexico’s alluring beaches, its magnificent colonial cities, the country’s three big cities, its ancient pyramids & archaeology, and the breath-taking nature & adventure locations.

Custom-made tours: Our travel associates are experts on Mexico and can create hand-crafted leisure tours in Mexico that take all the stress out of the planning and logistics and help you to focus on enjoying your leisure time and absorbing the travel experience.

Driving & road trips: If you intend to drive here, our comprehensive guide to driving in Mexico will help you prepare for the journey ahead, whether it’s a long road trip, or a short drive around your local area.

Keep updated: Our free monthly Mexico Newsletter inspires tens of thousands of readers and keeps you updated with worthwhile lifestyle & leisure opportunities.

Want to work with Mexperience?

Mexperience was founded in 2002. We know Mexico intimately, and our readers have come to trust the information we publish about the remarkable opportunities Mexico offers to them.

Mexperience.com attracts millions of people interested in Mexico Lifestyle, Living and Leisure by publishing information that helps them to Discover Mexico and make informed decisions.

Our work helps readers to discover new experiences and opportunities in Mexico and we connect them to relevant associates who can help them to realize their plans and aspirations for lifestyle, living, and leisure in Mexico.

If you provide Mexico-related services that can help others to experience more of Mexico and would like to learn more about working with Mexperience, please contact us by completing the form below.

Today we celebrate the 16th anniversary of our presence online—providing knowledge that encourages you to delve deeper and become inspired by the lifestyle and leisure opportunities Mexico offers.  Our articles also provide practical guidance to help you realize your plans.

We will extend our reach during the coming year, and increase the scope of articles and features we publish that help you to learn more about Mexico and to make informed choices and connect to relevant products and services that can help you to realize your Mexico plans.

If you are not already signed-up, I invite you subscribe free to our Mexico Newsletter, that keeps you updated with news and opportunities here in Mexico.

Matthew Harrup is founder and editor of Mexperience.com

Mexperience is an online publisher in the business of sharing useful and inspiring knowledge about Mexico—transparently creating connections to people and local resources to help you realize your plans.

The limited amount of personal information we ask for enables us to do the things you ask us to help you with.

Our Privacy Ethos

• We respect your privacy
• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we need it to facilitate a service you ask us to perform for you, or to assist with an inquiry you make
• We only gather information we need to deliver the products and services we offer and to protect or improve our website and services
• We keep the personal data we gather only for the purposes you consent to, and only for as long as we need it to fulfill its purpose
• We do not harvest browsing data to profile you personally, and we don’t present you with content or advertising based on tracking
• When you subscribe to our free Newsletter, we only use your contact details to email you the newsletter.  Our system sends an email asking you to confirm your intent to subscribe; and you may unsubscribe at any time with one click/tap using the clearly-visible “unsubscribe” links inside every newsletter email we send, or by contacting us and asking to be removed
• When you complete an inquiry request form for a third party product or service via Mexperience, we pass your contact details to the third party providing that product or service so they can respond to and progress your inquiry.  Your contact details are not sent to or shared with anyone else.

You can read about the data we collect and what we do with it by reading our Privacy Policy.

Thank you for supporting us as we make digital publishing work in ways which are transparent, and respectful to you.

The internet has changed substantially over the last 15 years. We introduced the present Mexperience design in August 2015 and we’ve continued to make additional tweaks and enhancements virtually every month since then.  Through careful attention to detail, we’ve cultivated a website that is clear, uncluttered, and free from annoyances.

We focus on the local charm and character of the country, revealing paths not often explored, and connecting you to travel and lifestyle experiences that reflect the true spirit of Mexico.

As we enter our sixteenth year of business, we will continue publishing content that inspires and informs, seeking-out places, activities, and people that offer original, charismatic and meaningful experiences in Mexico, and connect you to beneficial contacts and services.

Thank you for making Mexperience part of your Mexico plans, and for supporting us.  I’d also like to express my sincere thanks to the team whose contributions and talents enable Mexperience to flourish.

If you are not already signed-up, I invite you subscribe free to our Mexico Newsletter, that is e-mailed once a month and keeps you updated with news and opportunities here in Mexico.

Matthew Harrup is founder and editor of Mexperience.com

To keep up with changing trends and technologies, we’ve made a range of enhancements to our monthly Newsletter.

Our Mexico Newsletter is now presented online, and we’ve added 12 months of archives, so if you’re new to Mexperience, you can now enjoy a full year of back-issues you missed, and if you’re already a subscriber, you can now get quick and easy access to previous editions.

Our monthly newsletter brings together our latest news as well diverse and interesting stories and opportunities from content published across our extensive articles and guides.  It’s the perfect way to keep in touch with Mexico and connect to new opportunities.

If you’re not already subscribed, sign-up now, it’s free.

When you’re subscribed to our Mexico Newsletter, you can look forward to your regular helping of news, comment, and opportunities each month: your newsletter email will connect you straight to the latest online version as well as the archives.

See Also: Vista, the Mexico Newsletter from Mexperience

We composed this new site to deliver a rich and rewarding browsing experience: on your laptop, desktop, home and mobile devices.

When we set out to remake Mexperience, we envisioned a place you can come to discover and explore the best Mexico has to offer: to help you know Mexico better, and where interesting opportunities are revealed through engaging articles and insightful commentary.

Mexperience is a place to find inspiration and ideas, for knowledge you can trust, and to connect with people and organizations that can help you to achieve your Mexico plans and aspirations.

If you’ve not done so already, I recommend you sign-up free for Vista our Mexico Newsletter.  We’ve been publishing our newsletter continuously since 2002, and for readers who already know and enjoy Vista, you’ll find that the new-style letter is everything you liked about the old one combined with everything you’ll like about this new web site.

Mexperience requires a colossal amount of energy and talent to bring about, and I would like to thank our team and contributors as well as our sponsors and partners without whom we could not advance this kind of website.

I would also like to thank you for taking the time to visit Mexperience. We value your presence here, and are grateful for your patronage and for your personal recommendation to friends, family and colleagues.

Thank you for your valued custom!

Matthew Harrup is founder and editor of Mexperience.com

Matthew Harrup
Founder & Editor

Matthew Harrup founded Mexperience in 2002. British born and raised in Mexico, he is bilingual and administers the business; he’s also writer and editor for the website.

Acknowledgements

From time to time Mexperience may ask for personal information as part of the registration process for newsletters and/or other services we offer to you through the Mexperience web site. Personal information shared with Mexperience is protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy. All data collected will be treated with respect and adhere to this Privacy Policy.

Our privacy ethos

We respect your privacy.

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we need it to facilitate a service you ask us to perform for you, or to assist with an inquiry you make.

We only gather information we need to deliver the products and services we offer and to protect or improve our website and services.

We keep the personal data we gather only for the purposes you consent to, and only for as long as we need it to fulfill its purpose.

We do not harvest browsing data to profile you personally, and we don’t present you with content or advertising based on tracking.

When you subscribe to our free Newsletter, we only use your contact details to email you the newsletter and manage your subscription.  Our system sends an email asking you to confirm your intent to subscribe; and you may unsubscribe at any time with one click/tap using the clearly-visible “unsubscribe” links inside every newsletter email we send, or by contacting us and asking to be removed.

When you complete an inquiry request form for a third party product or service via Mexperience, we pass your contact details to the third party/parties providing that product or service you requested so they can respond to and progress your inquiry, and we send you an email to confirm this.  Your contact details are not sent to or shared with anyone else.

Newsletter registration

We respect your privacy. Your Newsletter registration contact details are never shared or passed on to any third parties.

When you register for the newsletter, you are asked to confirm your intent to register and the personal information gathered to facilitate this service will be stored and used for the purpose of sending you the newsletter and contacting you in regard to Mexperience. Our Newsletter software determines which subscribers open their emails and click on the Newsletter link(s) sent each month so that we can know the engagement levels of our readers, and manage our newsletter lists.  You or we may withdraw your Newsletter Subscription (“unsubscribe”) at any time. You may unsubscribe by clicking the “one click/tap” unsubscribe link included in every Newsletter email, or by contacting us asking for your free newsletter subscription to be cancelled.

Register free for our Mexico Newsletter

Services and referrals

Referrals via inquiry form

In some cases, we offer you the opportunity to connect with services offered by third parties by means an inquiry form on Mexperience.

This form asks you for your contact details and other information related to the inquiry so that a third party associate can contact you and assist in regard to a service or opportunity you express an interest in.

The details you submit on the form(s) are passed only to the associate(s) offering the service or opportunity you have expressed an interest in, so that the third party/parties can contact you and progress your inquiry. Your contact details are not sent to or shared by us with anyone else.

Mexperience provides an introduction service for readers to third parties with this service; we are not agents or intermediaries, and any business you might conduct with third parties is done so on their terms, including their own privacy policy.  If you have questions or concerns about a person or company you have been connected to via Mexperience, please contact us.

Referrals by direct web link

Features on Mexperience may link directly to a third party/parties offering products or services you may be interested to learn more about, and/or purchase from the business referred to by Mexperience.  Mexperience provides an introduction service for readers to third parties through direct referrals; we are not agents or intermediaries, and any business you might conduct with third parties is done so on their terms, including their own privacy policy. If you have questions or concerns about a person or company you have been connected to via Mexperience, please contact us.

Mexperience Cookies Policy

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a file containing a small amount of data sent to the browser on your computer or mobile device from a web site. The file stored is stored on your device’s memory drive or chip.

A web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it. Your browser will only permit a web site to access the cookie(s) it has sent to your computer. Most modern web sites use cookies to track online traffic statistics and provide services which require the use of cookies to function.

You have the choice to set your browser to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is being left on your computer, or to reject all cookies. Check your browser’s help section to learn more about this.

Web sites which offer interactive services generally require your browser to accept cookies in order for them to deliver their functionality and services to you.

If you elect to reject some or all cookies, certain services on Mexperience might not be available to you and you may not be able to take full advantage of the resources offered by Mexperience; however, you will not be prevented from viewing Mexperience.

How Mexperience uses Cookies/Web Beacons

We use cookies to provide services on the website and to gather aggregate statistical data and we use web beacons (which are similar to cookies) in our Newsletter Emails to help us manage the Newsletter list. Our web site uses a web traffic statistics program that tracks, in aggregate, how users of Mexperience.com are making use of our web site. This information helps us to understand how our website is being used and the data we gather helps us to understand what information users are interested in in aggregate. This statistical work does not personally identify any specific reader and we do not gather these data to profile or track specific users.

Data protection / use of information

Mexperience might be legally required to disclose your information where the disclosure is required by the order of a court, for the purpose of, or in connection with any legal proceedings (including prospective legal proceedings); for the purpose of obtaining legal advice; for the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending legal or property rights. We will disclose any information we have in our possession in response to any legal or criminal inquiry or investigation and/or if, in our sole discretion, we believe it is reasonably necessary or appropriate to protect rights and property.

Personal data you share is treated with care and for the purposes of facilitating services you request via Mexperience, thus:

Your consent: When you complete a form on Mexperience you consent to share any personal information you have provided on the said forms (“correspondence”) for us to use in its entirety to help respond, and/or facilitate with assistance, and/or provide services relating to the subject matter in that correspondence.  If you message us directly by use of a third party service; for example, directly by email or by using a messaging or social media service, your transmission of that message also serves as consent.

Newsletter: If you choose to register for our Mexico Newsletter, we will record your name, email address and the country you indicate to us that you live in on our Newsletter list.  We will use this to send you the free Newsletter.  You can unsubscribe at any time by tapping/clicking the “unsubscribe” link clearly placed in every newsletter email we send, or by contacting us directly to ask to be unsubscribed. When you unsubscribe, your contact information is removed from our system.

Contacting us: When you contact us, you consent that we may use the information you share on the contact form and/or email or message you send to respond to you, and/or to refer it to any other parties in regard to your question or inquiry, at our sole discretion.

Referrals: If you ask to be contacted by one of our Associates about a product or service by completing an online inquiry form, your details will be sent to the relevant Associate so that they can follow-up and make contact as you requested.  Mexperience provides an introduction service for readers to third parties; we are not agents or intermediaries, and any business you might conduct with third parties is done on their terms, including their own privacy policy.

Comments: If you leave a reader comment on the website, the name and comment you enter on the comment form is published, but your email is not. Our comments system records the IP address as reported by your ISP: we only use this to deal with potential threats or illegal activity, we never use it to identify or track specific users.  We actively monitor our comments and reserve the right to not publish, or to review, edit, or delete, any comment left on our website.

Email newsletter opening: Our Newsletter emails may contain a small image (sometimes called a ‘web beacon,’ similar to a ‘cookie’) which reports back as to whether an email has been opened or not.  Some email programs block these, but where they are not blocked (and/or you agree to load images) our newsletter sending system will record you having opened that newsletter email.  Our newsletter system will also record whether you clicked on a link(s) inside the email.  We only use these data for statistical purposes and to help us manage our newsletter list.  It’s helpful for us to know how many people are actively engaging with our newsletter, and we occasionally contact newsletter subscribers who have not opened and/or clicked for a long while, to ask if they still need the newsletter.  We don’t want to send newsletter emails to people who no longer want to read them; this technology helps us to keep our newsletter list current and clean.

Statistical data: We have access to aggregate, not personally-identifiable, data about the number of visitors, the browsers and device types being used, the approximate geographical location of the user, how long users remain on-site, and what pages are being read, as well as a range of other not personally-identifiable aggregate statistical data that helps us to measure our website’s effectiveness and popularity.  The service that provides these reports places cookies (see above) on your device. We use these aggregate data only for statistical purposes and to help us understand how we may improve our content and services.  If you use a web browser that blocks ads/usage tracking, your visit(s) to Mexperience will not register on our aggregate statistics and you are not denied access to the website.

Information we share with current or prospective advertisers/associates/partners

We may provide aggregate, non-personally-identifiable information to our current and prospective advertisers, clients, and business partners. For example, we may share information that tells advertisers that there are 10,000 people receiving a regular newsletter from Mexperience, but we won’t tell them that e.g. Joe Smith is is one of them, and we won’t tell them that his/her email address is ‘joe–smith@any–email.com’

Mexperience working with third party service providers

We may associate ourselves with or employ third party service providers to help with certain development projects or activities that will help us to improve our business or understand our customers or clients better. In cases where we need to share your personal details with these providers to undertake any such works, these service providers offer the same level of privacy detailed in this Privacy Policy.

Business Transfer

If Mexperience were transferred or acquired, the data we hold would be one of the assets that becomes transferred to, or acquired by, a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Mexperience may continue to use your personal information as set out in this Privacy Policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Mexperience may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at its sole discretion. Mexperience encourages its visitors to check this page regularly for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Mexperience website after any changes made to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.

We value your patronage and want to help you make the most of your Mexico experiences. Here’s how to contact us:

Third party service providers

If you acquire a product or service using a third party referred to by Mexperience, please contact the provider directly about any service inquiries you may have in the first instance. If the provider does not meet your expectations, please contact us.

General inquiries and assistance

Please use our Contact Mexperience form to get in touch with our team about general inquiries and our Mexico Assistance Services.

Working with Mexperience

If you would like to contact us about working with Mexperience, please see read about our Work With Us page and complete the form there.

Please read this page to learn about how we do this, and to find contact details in the event that you need further help.

Third Party Service Providers

If you acquire a product or service using a third party referred to by Mexperience, please contact the provider directly about any service inquiries you may have in the first instance. If the provider does not meet your expectations, please contact us.

If we do not meet your expectations

Please don’t hesitate to Contact Mexperience if we, or any of the service providers Mexperience refers to, fails to meet your expectations.

Thank you for your support.