Tourists alert, don’t rent a car unless you want to be threatened and robbed
We rented a car to go to the pyramids from CDMX airport. We got stopped immediately by what we now know was a fake police officer. He threatened us and demanded we pay, took all our money which was $500 usd. It was horrible and we just returned the car and gave up on the trip so we’re out about $6590 with nothing to show for it. Never had a worse experience travelling across the world for ten years. EDIT: I know now I’m an idiot and everyone thinks I deserved this for renting a car and agreeing to pay the guy. I’m an American, I’m sure that will make you guys hate me more but I thought maybe the corruption was a trope and didn’t want to buy into the negative narrative about Mexico. Won’t do it again and just made the post to prevent others from making the same mistake.