Our Secret Bank

Today, we went to pay our rent. Here in Cancun there are no automatic or online payments, at least if there is we haven’t managed to figure it out yet. You have to physically go to the bank and ask them to transfer money from one account to another.

At the main banks you take a ticket and sit in the rows upon rows of chairs and wait until your number is shown, and only then can you proceed to the counter. Sometimes, you’ll receive a ticket showing #643 when the current ticket is #487. Now you can either sit tight and wait for a couple of hours or you can go off and do something else and hope you get back in time for your ticket. Many is the time we’ve returned back to have just missed our number, so you have to start over or give up.

We then found a smaller branch inside one of the Cancun supermarkets called Commercial Mexicana, they dont offer a full range of facilities but at least we can pay our rent there. We went there today and found that the area it once occupied was now a display of refrigerators.

On enquiring we find out that a new branch has recently opened very close to the house on Ave. Kabah just in front of Costco, but due to our lengthy vacation we hadn’t spotted it yet. So, we made our way there.

The carpark was still being built with workers all over the place, but the bank was fully functional. On going inside  we found two tellers each occupied with a customer, but not a single person waiting, wow!

We hung around until one had finished, which didn’t take too long, and stepped up to the counter. We were then told in a rather rude tone that we couldnt be served until we had taken a ticket and waited for the number to be called.

Over to the ticket dispenser we went and took our ticket and waited for our number to be called, which took just less than one second, as by this time we were the only two people in the bank other than staff. We handed it into the teller, she served us with a smile and off we went.

I’m hoping that it takes some time before others find out about this new bank.