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Keep it in my pants when I do OTC. If I were a stripper it would stand for I like big bucks and I can not lie.
Say you're making a quick trip (under 24 hours). How many dollars in cash do you bring? How many fives and singles? How many (if any) cash pesos is it good to have? Should you get pesos from an ATM or a casa de cambio? How much of a problem is it if you don't have small denomination bills in pesos? Do you use credit cards in TJ?
What's the max cash you can bring, without a serious risk that the cops will green light you getting robbed because of the cut they'll get?
What's the max cash you can bring, without a serious risk that the cops will green light you getting robbed because of the cut they'll get?
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I usually bring about $300 for one evening trip. I try to bring a variety of $10s and $20s. I don't bring $1s, the mesero's can always make change. Make sure to save at least $5 to get back to the border.
Roughly, about $100 for fichas, $100 to $120 for one trip arriba (including tip), $30 or so for drinks (I am not a big drinker). That leaves $50 or so for other tips, transportation, and a little food it I get hungry.
I will play along and answer your questions.
Q: How many dollars in cash do you bring? How many fives and singles?
A: For a 24hrs visit $400 to $500 is more than enough, should cover you for a couple of arriba trips if you have the stamina. Four $5 dollar bills, two $10 dollar bills, five singles, the rest in $20’s is good
Q: How many (if any) cash pesos is it good to have? Should you get pesos from an ATM or a casa de cambio? How much of a problem is it if you don't have small denomination bills in pesos? Do you use credit cards in TJ?
Cash in dollars is king in TJ, no pesos required, just remember they like to bargain so you can offer half of what they ask and get a better deal on most transactions.
Nowadays almost nothing cost less than a dollar in the USA and TJ, even at the dollar stores.
Tip at least a dollar or couple of dollar if you get good services.
Don use credit card at strip clubs in general and certainly not in TJ
Q: What's the max cash you can bring, without a serious risk that the cops will green light you getting robbed because of the cut they'll get?
A: “Carrying over $10,000 USD cash when departing from or arriving to Mexico is legal. However, failing to declare it is a violation to the Mexican Laws”
As long as you are not flashing cash carelessly no one would know how much money you have for them to want to rob you, and as long as you don dress flashy the same applies.
Dress as a lower middle class or upper lower class American and behave like a well raised gentleman and you will be treated as a gentleman.
Go ahead relax and enjoy, have a good safe overnight trip to “The Happiest Place on Earth” (according to Krusty.)
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We will expect a good report/discussion/article about your trip.
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But generally i take a little more $ than i budget. Ie how many arriba you got in you? Hotel, food, drink cost? How many fichas per night @ $10 each? Etc.
I usually take $100s, hidden in various areas. I do this when i travel anywhere, eggs in 1 basket idea. HK bartenders are my go to for change of $100. Also front desk will break $100 when i pay for room.
You mentioned you had no plans to go to TJ back in Aug.
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So if thats the case, no point in answering, snce you not gonna go. Similarly to the other guy asking about TJ, BG and other clubs, when he won’t/can’t go. So why ask. And from my perspective why answer. But im a weirdo like that.
Bottom line...use common sense and protect yourself. No matter if its Mex, Canada, Germany, another state, etc.
You watch too many action movies. Suggest that you go through the reviews for ZN clubs from the past few years and flag any that even mention getting stopped by cops, let alone getting abused by them. It almost never happens unless you're actively looking for trouble.
The irony is, the less Spanish you speak, the safer you are. They really, really don't want to arrest you. If they're convinced you don't understand they're looking for a mordida, they'll probably just let you go. But you REALLY don't want to get fucked up on anything but alcohol in Mexico. Without US drug demand and US gun laws, there would be much less lethal violence in Mexico. They see fucking us over bad for using drugs in Mexico as righteous payback.