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From: AZ Nomad on 17 Jun 2010 12:44 On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:27:37 +0100, tim.... <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >"Jesper Lauridsen" <rorschak(a)sorrystofanet.dk> wrote in message >news:hvdfr7$n4b$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> On 2010-06-10, Kirly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote: >>> >>> Canadian banks' foreign ATM fees are typically $5 per transaction, plus >>> another 3% or so on top of the interbank exchange rate. That's a hit >>> of more than 8% on a 20,000 forint ($90) withdrawal. You can see how >>> that might add up quickly over a four week visit to Hungary. >> >> Make fewer, but bigger, withdrawals. Problem solved. >It's easy to say that but if you've no idea how much cash you might need >it's actually quite hard to achieve. You find handling money to be too technically chalenging? Take out the equivelent of $400 instead of $100.
From: tim.... on 17 Jun 2010 13:21 "AZ Nomad" <aznomad.3(a)PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote in message news:slrni1kk7f.a5q.aznomad.3(a)ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net... > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:27:37 +0100, tim.... <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > >>"Jesper Lauridsen" <rorschak(a)sorrystofanet.dk> wrote in message >>news:hvdfr7$n4b$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>> On 2010-06-10, Kirly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote: >>>> >>>> Canadian banks' foreign ATM fees are typically $5 per transaction, plus >>>> another 3% or so on top of the interbank exchange rate. That's a hit >>>> of more than 8% on a 20,000 forint ($90) withdrawal. You can see how >>>> that might add up quickly over a four week visit to Hungary. >>> >>> Make fewer, but bigger, withdrawals. Problem solved. > >>It's easy to say that but if you've no idea how much cash you might need >>it's actually quite hard to achieve. > > You find handling money to be too technically chalenging? Take out the > equivelent of $400 instead of $100. That's the point. If a country is cheap then 400 dollars is far too much and at the end of the holiday you have 200 left. tim
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?= on 17 Jun 2010 14:01 tim.... <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > If a country is cheap then 400 dollars is far too much and at the end of the > holiday you have 200 left. I ran into that problem in Romania in 2001. Back then it wasn't possible for non-Romanians to exchange lei back into hard curreny, so any excess left at the end of the trip would just be thrown away. So I made frequent trips to currency exchanges, making sure not to change more than what I knew I would use. Not a problem with fully convertible currencies like the HUF. -- K. Lang may your lum reek.
From: tim.... on 17 Jun 2010 15:56 ""Kir�ly"" <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote in message news:MptSn.6977$Z6.1134(a)edtnps82... > tim.... <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> If a country is cheap then 400 dollars is far too much and at the end of >> the >> holiday you have 200 left. > > I ran into that problem in Romania in 2001. I once went to Romania for 5 days with a friend. At the airport we changed 20 quid (between us) "just to be getting on with". At the end of the holiday we were having to buy the most expensive of everything that we wanted, to use it up! Unfortunately I don't think it's like that now tim
From: Indy Scent on 17 Jun 2010 17:28
Kir�ly wrote, On 06/17/2010 09:39 AM: > Anyway problem solved. I opened an account at the only bank in Canada > that I could find that does not charge fees to use foreign ATMs. http://www.scotiabank.com/cda/content/0,1608,CID8040_LIDen,00.html Looks like Scotiabank also doesn't charges fees, but ... Only problem there is that the "Global ATM Alliance" doesn't seem to include Hungarian ATMs. |