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We only take a credit card for any emergencies when we go to PV. We always take travelers checks and have never had a problem. Besides, the fees now for using ATM machines start at $5.00 per transaction in PV. My brother has traveled with us three times now and two out of the three times he has relied on his credit card, and either the machine ate his card, or he lost it, and he had no money for the rest of the trip. We ended up giving him some of our vacation money and he had to spend frugally the rest of the trip. This upcoming year he will definitely be buying travelers checks!

D2Wilsn (Dec 14, 2004 09:19 a.m.):ATM machines start at $5.00 per transaction in PV.

When did this start? Who is making the minimum $5.00 charge?

We were there the last two weeks of October, and I was charged $3.50 USD by my bank for each of my 3 international withdrawals.

Hi Ted,
I received a notice from Bank of America a while back that said they would start charging $5 USD per transaction for international ATM transactions made after Nov. 19, 2004. This charge even applied to checking your account balance through the ATM!!! They went on further to state that the charge would be waived if you used an ATM of one of their international partner banks (which they called the Global ATM Alliance). If anyone is interested, they should contact Bank of America.

If you bring your credit card and do need a cash advance, please remember your pin#!
You can go to a bank to get cash from your CC but you MUST know your pin # and the credit card company will not give it to you over the phone. I just had two different clients that had this happen to them and we tried everything. Finally one was able to get her \"dog watcher\" to go through her desk and find the paper the card was attached to that had the pin# on it.
Best bet, use an ATM card from your bank, bring some cash and maybe a couple travelers checks....:)

Thanks for the clarification, Jenny. I was specifically referring to Bank of America customers in my post above.

If you bank at Citicorp (or what ever they are called this week) they are connected to Banamex so you are allowed one with drawel a day at no cost at any Banamex branch. I did this last year.