Posting this link for consideration...
Mexico: ATMS and Credit Cards
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g150768-c5116/Mexico:Atms.And.Credit.Cards.html
Cards have always been the backup for me, but I know for many (or most) it is the other way around (cash being the backup to the card). Though it is abit dated now (2016) there is likely still some pertinent info.
Cards have always been the backup for me...
In Mexico, the difference between the cash exchange rate and the card exchage rate is greater than I recall seeing elsewhere.
In India, I was getting the mid-market rate (aka inter-bank rate) for cash...the best that could be had with any card.
Same in Thailand...where I changed there (Super Rich), the spread between buy and sell was often only 5 hundredths. The spread today is only 7 hundredths: buy 32.75, sell 32.82.....and this while the mid-market rate is 32.86 ! How do they make any money? Volume.
Here is a link to Super Rich with todays rates:
https://www.superrichthailand.com/#!/en
Order a few pesos from your local bank to get you through your first day or 2 then use ATMs while you're down there. It makes no sense to bring USD, especially when you aren't from the USA.
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