Oxxo

By gate security in T2, Oxxo is your quick grab.

This is the same Oxxo you see across Mexico, just inside Terminal 2 at Los Cabos (SJD), and it keeps a steady flow of passengers from the morning departures through late-night flights. It sits post-security, so you can walk here after clearing immigration and before heading to your gate. The store layout is tight but efficient, with single-file aisles you can sweep in under five minutes if your boarding pass says “final call.”

Prices run closer to street-side Oxxo than to airport restaurant gouge: bottled water, sodas, and canned iced coffee usually sit in the MXN $20–40 range, while packaged chips and cookies hover around MXN $25–50. You will not find hot meals or made-to-order sandwiches here, but you can assemble a snack “meal” with packaged nuts, instant noodles, and sweet pastries for under MXN $150 total. Card payments in pesos and major credit cards are standard; some staff also accept USD cash at a rough MXN rate.

Think of Oxxo as the backup plan if every sit-down spot in T2 has a 30-minute wait and your flight to the U.S. or Canada boards from a nearby gate. You can grab canned beer or hard seltzer for flights on airlines that allow on-board consumption of duty-paid alcohol (check your carrier’s rules), plus single-serve chips and candy that actually survive a 3–4 hour flight. Coffee is basic machine drip, more “keep me awake for boarding at 06:00” than café moment.

Tip: hit Oxxo before you walk down to the last gates in Terminal 2; there is no second branch further down the pier, and backtracking five gates with boarding already started is a headache you do not need.