Do I need a tourist card to go to Cancun for a week?

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bebejean

right now for mexico you should have id and birth certificate....in 2007 a passport will be required.

TropicSon

You will get a tourist card when you enter the country. No problem. Just bring a passport or a birth cert. and photo id. End of story.

Gussie

I think they give you the tourist card on the plane or in the airport. Contact the Mexican Embassy by following this link:

http://www.embassyofmexico.org/eng/

Cbeach1 cancunmx.com

Hola peanut. Unless you plan on living in Cancun, you do not need an FM3 Card. :)

On the airplane you will be given 2 forms to fill out. 1 is the Customs Declaration Form and 1 is the Migratory Form for Foreign Tourist. You will give the Customs Form to the Customs Agent (at the red/green light), and the Migratory Form to the Immigration Official when you arrive at the airport in Cancun. Make Sure to fill out both sides of that Form and Keep the portion the Official returns to you. You will need to give that form to your Airline upon checkin for departure.

Saludos, Tim

moonwalker

tropics is right on it. US citizen to travel farther than twelve mile limit must have tourist card.

justshitzus

No, everything is included in your airline ticket. You just fill out the paperwork the airlines give you and bring a passport.

High Jack

Cancún is a coastal city in Mexico's easternmost state, Quintana Roo. It is the municipal seat of Benito Juárez municipality and a world renowned tourist resort.
Geography

The average temperature in Cancún is 27° C (80° F) with more than 240 days of sunshine, and rain is rare, with late August through early October being the rainy season. The beaches are almost 100 percent limestone; the porous quality of the limestone makes for cool sand even under the intense tropical sun. Cancún is divided into two parts: The narrow 23-kilometer-long (14-mile) island section (Cancún Island) is lined with modern beachfront hotels surrounded by the Bahía de Mujeres (Bay of Women), the Caribbean Sea, and the Nichupte and Bojorquez lagoons. The mainland downtown commercial section (Cancún City), connected to the island by two bridges, has broad avenues lined with whitewashed shops, restaurants, and hotels.
History

In the early 1950s, Cancún was an almost nothing island just off the Caribbean Sea coast of the Yucatán peninsula, home to three caretakers of a coconut plantation and small Pre-Columbian ruins of the Maya civilization. The government of Mexico decided to develop a tourist resort on Cancún, which was originally financed by a USD $27 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank. A causeway was built to link Cancún to the mainland, and an international airport was built, along with what was at first a model city for workers, complete with housing, schools and medical facilities. On the opposite side of the island from the Caribbean Sea is the Nichupte Lagoon, which is used for boat and snorkelling tours of the area.

Although many international publications now spell Cancun as Cancún, in the area itself it is usually Cancún in Spanish and Cancun in English. This is probably a result of the fact that English-language type faces available in the early days of Cancún did not have accented characters, or the operators did not know how to access them because the keyboard codes were different from the ones they were accustomed to using.

The earliest known reference to Cancún called it Cancuen. There's also a site in Guatemala called Cancuen. Cancuen refers to a snake totem, usually identified with Kukulcan or Quetzalcoatl (the Plumed Serpent). The romanization of Mayan words varies, but it is common to use an apostrophe to indicate a kind of glottal stop. It is probable that some Yucatecan or Mexican Mayanist wrote the name as Cancu'en, which was turned into Cancún by someone at the predecessor of Fonatur, the Mexican government tourism development fund that created Cancún. The belief that Cancún means "nido de viboras" (nest of snakes) is modern folklore, according to long-time resident Jules Siegel, author of the Cancun User's Guide.

edgarrrw

from the US all is required is a birth certificate, if out of the country passport,

Douglas D

You will need to fill out a Mexican Tourist Card, usually provided by the airline, if you are travelling that way.

jannahlee78522

If you are from the US, you need a birth certificate and picture ID, you will be given a tourist visa to fill out when you arrive. Passports are easier and at some point will be manditory.

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