Anyone ever used prepaid currency cards when abroad to avoid carrying cash

[Monty91]

or getting stung on ATM charges using a standard debit card?

Looks like Caxton seems to be the most highly regarded - anyone used one?

[Snin]

so could use it when home and still use it for some online transactions and for car rental ( so if crash it they cant strip my credit card of the excess :) )

i use cashplus and very good, good exchange rate and shimple, just get it uprated for use on car hire once oyu recieve it then can use it world wide

[Pat Vegas]

https://www.kalixa.com/

no fees to use the card. Only a small fee to withdraw from ATM
plus their exchange rates are very good. Not far off the real exchange rate and better than changing monies.

[Pat Vegas]

http://fx.kalixa.com/en-GB/Guest-Areas/About-Kalixa/kalixa-e xchange-rates/ (http://fx.kalixa.com/en-GB/Guest-Areas/About-Kalixa/kalixa-exchange-rates/)

for example today their US dollar rate is
1.55430

on XE the rate is 1.55299

[Maravilloso Marvo]

Just bare in mind you will always have some money left on the card from trip to trip. Yes you will get to reuse it next time, but if you don't travel that often, it may undermine the better fx rate you are getting.

[Pat Vegas]

[Monty91]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

you take it down to zero. But in reality, you will pay for a meal in your last restaurant and it won't take you to the penny down to the money left on the card.

My Euro one is fine cos I use it all the time, but my USD one had about $30 sitting on there for 2 years.

[Pat Vegas]

gamble with*




*not true actually. I came back from Vegas with more cash than I left with.

[Snin]

[Pat Vegas]

dollars for example.

[Monty91]

which I think I can stomach.

Definitely looks like Claxton are the best in every way apart, possibly, from exchange rate. No sign up fee and no ATM withdrawl fees or point of sale transactions when abroad.

[Monty91]

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

Get a nice fat roll of money, son.

[Ears are alight]

[Monty91]

[Pat Vegas]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

withdraw in multiples of 10 (+the fee), doesn't leave you too much in there.

[Ears are alight]

applicants. Sorry.

[Monty91]

[Pat Vegas]

[Monty91]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

you're going abroad?

[Pat Vegas]

but now it seems to work ok. though I have a phobia of using my card abroad.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

well and want to keep my account with them open for a while so don't know if getting one of these things might be the best option. Keep topping it up and not inform them i'm living in Sweden :rubchin: