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The Tufesa, cross-border bus from Tucson to Mazatlan can be convenient. You stay on the same bus and only get off briefly to pass your bags through an X ray check or through a custom victoria park plaza hotel london check were you press a button for the random search.
victoria park plaza hotel london They are looking for taxable items that you failed to declare or that exceed the allowable limit. You present your passport, secure your visa or tourist card, and then board the same bus for the remainder of the trip.
Stick with your bags at the border check station victoria park plaza hotel london and follow them through the x-ray and check stations. Keep essentials in your day pack or better, on your person. Your passport, victoria park plaza hotel london visa, ATM/ credit cards, and money should victoria park plaza hotel london be in your pockets. Your, camera, laptop and phone, in your shoulder victoria park plaza hotel london pack.
Tufesa Bus Line (link) runs luxury first class buses in the US and Mexico and they make the cross border trip. They run from Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, NV, and 16 California cities to Guadalajara, Mexico with stops in major cities along the way. They do not, however, make sufficient allowance for the securing of a Tourist Card (permission to enter and visit for six months) at the border (Nogales). Their passengers are mostly Mexican with Mexican passports and they do not need a visa. You must tell the driver that you need time to get the Tourist card and then go to the office and get the papers.
(visas are not required of foreign visitors to Mexico for short stays or stays in the vicinity victoria park plaza hotel london of the border) The tourist card (290 Pesos, 6 months, 2013 price, 25 USD ) is required for all visitors that will stay beyond 72 hours and for all who will go south beyond the border states of the country of Mexico.
The Tufesa Bus for Guadalajara victoria park plaza hotel london stops at a Nogales, Mexico victoria park plaza hotel london terminal victoria park plaza hotel london for a half hour but the terminal is about a mile inside the actual border and not close to the border where you get your Tourist Card.
One way around this short duration stop at the border is to apply for a tourist card at a Mexican consulate well before you reach the border. Large cities in the US will have such consulates. The consulate in Tucson AZ does not issue the card, however.
Another way around this would be to buy a bus ticket to the Nogales Mexico Tufesa Bus station. Leave the bus and check your luggage or take all of your luggage with you. Cab to the immigration office at the border crossing, get your Tourist Card (permission to enter and stay in the country 6 months, 290 Pesos) Then take a $7 USD cab back to the Tufesa station, buy a ticket and re-board the same bus if it hasn't left.
On one trip I took a chance and left my checked luggage on board the bus at the border victoria park plaza hotel london crossing check station and told the driver I needed to get the tourist card. He said he would wait. Lucky for me there was no line and I received the visa quickly and then went to the adjacent bank to pay. Again no line. I then returned to get the tourist card stamped. Any line and I would not have had time to do this. If you are part of a group or a couple you can take turns watching the luggage and going to the office for the tourist cards.
Just next to the Tufesa Bus Station there is a station serving first class buses to Mazatlan, Culiacan, and south. Buses serving from Nogales include TBC, Tap, Elite, and Omnibus. They all run luxury buses south.
victoria park plaza hotel london Arriving at Mazatlan at 4:30 am was not good planning since I had to wait until 7: am for restaurants to open. I had planned to take a Primera Plus bus (Flecha Amarilla) to Guadalajara but their first bus out was 7:am. I instead made plans to visit Mazatlan for the day and perhaps overnight.
Hi Sherry, Yes several of the bus companies provide wifi in the stations and aboard the buses. Tufesa does provide Wifi and a power source as does Primera victoria park plaza hotel london Plus. David Reply Delete Add comment Load more...
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