Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
As the US dollar rate is very good if I bought some Travellers Cheques now for next July how long are they actually valid for ?
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Travellers Cheques
- Thread starter Beach Hut
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Complete and utter waste of time and money.
Just get your cash at the Post Office and be CAREFUL (ie hire the safe in your room), or better still, take a CARD with you and make cash withdrawals when you get over there. Travellers cheques are for insecure spackos.
Just get your cash at the Post Office and be CAREFUL (ie hire the safe in your room), or better still, take a CARD with you and make cash withdrawals when you get over there. Travellers cheques are for insecure spackos.
surrey jim
Not in Surrey
concur
although my bank Lloyds, chrage extortionate rates for using ATM's so sometime before my next trip im going to open a Nationwide account just for the free ATM use world wide, then transfer money over as and when i need it out there
Rangdo
Registered Cider Drinker
And people living in the 1920s.
What he said.
I hate traveller's cheques, absolute pain in the arse.
If you must insist on using them, use the credit card form of them now offered by AmEx. Basically, you 'top up' the card with a certain amount before you leave, then use it wherever you're going as you would a normal AmEx card.
surrey jim
Not in Surrey
the pre paid cards are taking off at the moment other companies are offering them aswell (although amex offer by far the best service!)
Cian
Well-known member
I can't see the dollar fall stopping too soon, buying travellers cheques now could easily end up a worse decision than those Pipex shares.
You don't have to withdraw the money, you pay for stuff with the card like you'd use a debit card here.
Do what I do and take some cold hard cash with you for general use (ie: snacks, small purchases etc...).
Lord Bracknell
On fire
I have a recollection of using Amex Travelers Checks in New York as if they were cash. In other words, wander into a shop and buy something for $20.40. Pay for it with a $20 travelers check and coins to the value of 40¢.
Or is my memory faulty?
Or is my memory faulty?
Last time we had "hard cash" all £800 was stolen on the first night
Well, I've done it on every foreign trip I've been on (4 trips to the US included) and never had so much as a cent stolen. Was it stolen from your hotel room, or directly from you?
Cian
Well-known member
Last time we had "hard cash" all £800 was stolen on the first night
Stay in less scummy areas, and use the safe provided in any decent hotel room.
Cian
Well-known member
Post written before you said "flat". Massive camp sites are, by definition, scummy.