When leaving the country - What is the best way to change your money back to dollars?
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When leaving the country - What is the best way to change your money back to dollars?
[QUOTE=OslersVoice]When leaving the country - What is the best way to change your money back to dollars?[/QUOTE]When I travel, I never exchange local currency back to USD. I normally save it for my next trip. If I'm not planning to return anytime soon, I would use the remaining cash to pay my hotel bill or rental car and put the balance on the credit card.
[QUOTE=OslersVoice]When leaving the country - What is the best way to change your money back to dollars?[/QUOTE]Downtown ATMs are giving away Castellanos dollar bills lately.
So the best thing to do is change, whatever is left, at the airport bank before passing immigration.
Minus 2 pesos for your next visit luggage trolley.
El Greco
El Greco.
Thanks for info on HSBC ATM at airport! They are my bank and don't charge me any fees or commissions. Do you know of any HSBC ATM"S downtown in the Recoletta area?
There is one on Callao near the intersection with Vincente Lopez, I think.
Mickey Mouse in other days used to withdraw huge sums from there, but I'm not sure what for.
[QUOTE=Cactus]El Greco.
Thanks for info on HSBC ATM at airport! They are my bank and don't charge me any fees or commissions. Do you know of any HSBC ATM"S downtown in the Recoletta area?[/QUOTE]Do not know for Recoleta but there are many of them around the city.
One I know is on Paraguay near Maipu corner.
El Greco
[QUOTE=El Greco]Do not know for Recoleta but there are many of them around the city.
One I know is on Paraguay near Maipu corner.
El Greco[/QUOTE]That location sounds like my favorite ATM to withdrawl money, the address is Paraguay 720 which is between Maipu and Esmeralda. The reason is when I withdraw 500 pesos there, I usually gets 50 - 100 pesos in 10 pesos bills. They come in handy since I always like to give exact change in privados.
I do not believe this has been addressed in the esteemed forum. I am asking because in Colombia there was only 1 bank that would accept an AmEx-branded card for cash (Bancolombia) What is the situation in BA? I would love to use my Travelers Cheque card for cash (I load it through my Hilton AmEx card and earn points in the process, a win-win setup) So, do most machines take Amex cards or are there any special ones?
[QUOTE=Tbird]I do not believe this has been addressed in the esteemed forum. I am asking because in Colombia there was only 1 bank that would accept an AmEx-branded card for cash (Bancolombia) What is the situation in BA? I would love to use my Travelers Cheque card for cash (I load it through my Hilton AmEx card and earn points in the process, a win-win setup) So, do most machines take Amex cards or are there any special ones?[/QUOTE]I suggest you call the american expess number for atm locations. I know american express now charges 1.5% to cash amex travelers check to dollars.
Looks like I should be using REDLINK-branded ATMs. There seem to be dozens of them. Problem solved, I guess.
You havent sean the interest bill yet on your credit card either.
Don't come to Argentina Mongers without a Debit card, it makes things so much easier.
Also never change money or withdraw on you debit card on Friday's. They Fuck for as much as 5 pesos on the exchange rate.
Seams they don't want the exposure over the weekend.
Exon
Also never change money or withdraw on you debit card on Friday's. They Fuck for as much as 5 pesos on the exchange rate.
Seams they don't want the exposure over the weekend.
Exon[/QUOTE]That is the second time you have mentioned this so I must now say:
WRONG!
If they did not want peso exposure over the weekend they would give you MORE pesos for the dollar, not FEWER.
Hello? Supply and demand? Let's review. I don't want pesos. So, I want dollars or euros or Swiss francs. There is a finite supply of each currency. My lack of desire for pesos decreases their value. My desire for dollars or euros or francs increases their value. Therefore each dollar or euro or franc or Albanian lek will cost MORE pesos to buy.
Clear?
Out of curiousity, I just checked my online account Exon. There was no difference for my Friday debit card withdrawls, save a few cents+/- but that happens almost every time just due to normal fx variations.
I assume "fucking" you on the exchange rate means unfavorable variance. Although I disagree with the way he said it, Dickhead is right. If they didnt want to hold pesos they would pay you more pesos / USD (actually the same amount of pesos for less USD in the case of ATM withdrawl) Regardless, it doesnt happen to me.
Definitely you said (twice) that one should not change dollars for pesos on Friday because one would get fucked. But anyway I am in Mendoza, staying in a nice clean 2 star hotel for 40 pesos, flying directly in the face of Jackson's completely ridiculous statement that his "first class apartment" rents for the same price as a 2 star hotel room. And he does not provide breakfast like my hotel does.
There is also a lot of good, reasonably priced pussy here but I am not going to report on it because I don't want to contribute anything useful to a board owned and run by someone who insults me at every opportunity.
Also I was in Perú where I stayed in nice 3 star hotels for 55 soles which is about 48 pesos, and in okay 2 star hotels for 35 soles, and the last night I stayed in a 10 sol hotel near the Lima airport. I always wanted to stay in a three dollar hotel and now I have. Boy, was it sleazy. They charged one sol for soap and 2 for a towel. Fortunately I had my own but just for research I asked to see a towel. Have you ever seen a formerly white towel that has turned evenly beige? It's not a pretty sight, I assure you.
I met two really dumb girls from the UK last night and we went out and played a variety of games: pool, duck pin bowling, and finally chess. The loser had to pay for the games and the beer and I assure you I never lost so it worked out well. Then I ditched them for a hooker. Ha ha. This town is about 25-30% cheaper than BA for most things and wine is really cheap. I prefer beer but have adjusted quite nicely.
Nice to see you posting again, DH. I for one would enjoy you telling us about Mendoza, and am sure that others feel the same way. However, I thought I would comment on a couple of things you posted.
[QUOTE=Dickhead]flying directly in the face of Jackson's completely ridiculous statement that his "first class apartment" rents for the same price as a 2 star hotel room. [/QUOTE]Mendoza is not Buenos Aires. When Jackson moves his apartment from Buenos Aires to Mendoza then such a statement might make sense. $75.00 a day for an apartment is less than many hotels (including 2-star ones) charge in Buenos Aires.
[quote=Dickhead] I am not going to report on it because I don't want to contribute anything useful to a board owned and run by someone who insults me at every opportunity. [/QUOTE]I must have missed the part where he was insulting you by allowing you to post at will on his board, and by his having had you as a dinner guest in his home 10 or 20 times.
As for the "every opportunity" part, I just reviewed Jackson's posts on the board. You haven't been mentioned in a post he made since at least last September. In September, he described an incident at El Alamo restaurant wherein you had too much to drink and did something which people who have too much to drink tend to do. And I think he described it pretty diplomatically. I don't think that qualifies as insulting you at every opportunity.
Anyway, why didn't you use the old DH magic and get those two ditzy Brits into bed for a threesome? If they were good-looking enough to drink and bowl with, they were certainly good-looking enough to service the little guy, weren't they?
[blue]Hi Hunt,
DH sent me a PM a couple of months ago advising me that I had insulted him in some manner, but he's never enlighten me as to exactly how, and I've been unable to identify the transgression myself.
Thanks,
Jackson[/blue]