They are not allowed to follow you out.ģ.
You have to walk through a large room full of this nonsense, but just keep going. No matter how nice they appear, walk straight ahead and don't make eye contact. They have incentives to sign people up who are staying at high-end hotels so they will be especially aggressive if they hear you are staying at a nice place. They will usually ask you where you are staying and pretend that they represent a shuttle service for that hotel. When walking out of the airport on arrival, don't make eye contact with anyone in the "shark tank." When you exit customs in the Puerto Vallarta airport, you have to run the gauntlet of timeshare salespeople, who, by the way, will never use the word "timeshare." They will approach you, sometimes with cold drinks telling you they can find you a taxi or a shuttle. If you lose it you'll have to endure more paperwork and pay a fine of about $35.Ģ. It will be collected from you when you fly home. When you pass through Mexican immigration, you'll get a small visitor's card- fold it up and keep it with your passport so you don't lose it. Also, more airlines are no longer handing out the second immigration form that you will need to enter Mexico, so you will have to pick it up and fill it out after you land and before you get to passport control or you can fill it out in advance here.
I remembered to pack a pen on my trip to Puerto Vallarta last month and was a hero to the couple seated next to me. The airlines hand out the forms on the plane but don't supply pens. You will need one to fill out the immigration forms before you land in Puerto Vallarta. Don't leave home on a trip to Puerto Vallarta without a pen.
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