How Much?!

So, it's pretty easy to get confused when shopping in Cabo, since almost all stores and shops show their prices in Pesos...which makes a lot of sense since these cents are in Mexico.

In fact, while visiting the Hilton earlier this year we overheard a 10-year old boy, with a very nervous voice, ask the clerk at the hotel store if the candy bar he had just charged to his room really had been $20.  She told him no, that it was about $1.50 in U.S. dollars.  "Thank goodness," the boy replied, "my mom would have killed me!"

So, when shopping, always ask if the price is in pesos or U.S. dollars.  Today, one peso is worth .077 dollars, making a dollar worth about 13 pesos.  A quick trick that will help give you a rough idea of the price is to move the decimal point to the left one position...so if the price tag says 25.00, move the decimal to the left and you know that it is in the neighborhood of U.S. $2.50.

It's not exact (25 pesos = $1.92), but it will give you a rough idea without having to pull out your calculator!