We brought cash in the form of pesos with us from Playa del Carmen. For all supermarket and pharmacy transactions, we use a credit card from Canada with no foreign transaction fees. However, here we have been using an independent fruit and vegetable seller and using up cash.
We have made a few more cash transactions than usual too. For example I paid pesos for yesterday's hair cut. We frequently walk by a little, old barber shop in the neighbourhood. The boney old guy looks like he must be in his mid 80s and generally he doesn't' seem to ever have much business. So, when I figured it was time to cut my hair, I wanted to give him some business. His chair was original, I think from the 1940s. Nothing much had been done with the place for decades. He had on his ill-fitting COVID mask and spoke no English. I motioned that I wanted to keep the bulk of my hair but he could use the #1 clipper to cut the sides. I don't think he had cut many heads during this millennium but he tried! The cut isn't great but I will get a better one before going back to Canada after a month. I dutifully paid the wrinkly gentlemen his required 70 pesos, or around US $3.35.
Anyway, back to the original point: We needed to visit an ATM today. We do some banking business with HSBC and it has turned out convenient during our retirement winters. We've never been dinged with a transaction fee because they've had branches in Puerto Vallarta, Egypt, Bali, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka. Although there weren't branches in Cambodia for the several winter months we stayed there, HSBC covered the ATM fees for us.
The downtown Mazatlán branch is in the old colonial section of the city. We walked to Olas Atlas after getting some cash. I took pictures at the original beach, but I'll just include three I took as we enjoyed the walk along Calle Gral. Angel Flores.