Travel survey: How do you exchange money for the trip ?

The Swedish website "Flygtorget" ( air-market) made the survey question :
How do you exchange money for the abroad trip.
Answers was as follows:
Exchange at local bank: 4%
From local exchange automat (at airports) 1%
Local exchange offices as FOREX: 23%
Exchange offices abroad: 2%
ATM abroad : 70%
Travelers checks: 0%
Other way: 1%

In article , Lennart Petersen
wrote:

The Swedish website "Flygtorget" ( air-market) made the survey question :
How do you exchange money for the abroad trip.
Answers was as follows:
Exchange at local bank: 4%
From local exchange automat (at airports) 1%
Local exchange offices as FOREX: 23%
Exchange offices abroad: 2%
ATM abroad : 70%
Travelers checks: 0%
Other way: 1%


Using U.S. dollars (cash), I have been able to exchange directly with
the merchant at times and most of the time with my credit card.

I use banks in europe only to exchange back excess currency back to
Dollars or Euros.

jay
Sat Jun 19, 2004

On 2004-06-19, Go Fig wrote:
In article , Lennart Petersen
wrote:

Local exchange offices as FOREX: 23%

Forex opened an office here a couple of years back. It was amusing to
read their PR material. They claimed to be able to offer cheap cash,
because they bought it in large quantities at low prices, and they were
recommending travellers checks for travel in Western Europe.

Using U.S. dollars (cash), I have been able to exchange directly with
the merchant at times

That is the most expensive way possible.

In article , Jesper
Lauridsen wrote:

On 2004-06-19, Go Fig wrote:
In article , Lennart Petersen
wrote:

Local exchange offices as FOREX: 23%

Forex opened an office here a couple of years back. It was amusing to
read their PR material. They claimed to be able to offer cheap cash,
because they bought it in large quantities at low prices, and they were
recommending travellers checks for travel in Western Europe.

Using U.S. dollars (cash), I have been able to exchange directly with
the merchant at times

That is the most expensive way possible.

That was not part of the criteria, but certainly is a way to exchange
money... as is credit cards.

jay
Sat Jun 19, 2004

Credit Card for retail transactions (provided there's no surcharge) and
ATM's with a cashcard for me!!!



"Lennart Petersen" wrote in message
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The Swedish website "Flygtorget" ( air-market) made the survey question :
How do you exchange money for the abroad trip.
Answers was as follows:
Exchange at local bank: 4%
From local exchange automat (at airports) 1%
Local exchange offices as FOREX: 23%
Exchange offices abroad: 2%
ATM abroad : 70%
Travelers checks: 0%
Other way: 1%