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[Kinkoy]

donnykey

Do you mean that bringing A$ in cash and change them to Baht in los, gives you a better exchange rate than bringing your debet/credit card and withdraw bath from a atm in los?

if that is the case it sound strange, but I will understand why you bring cash.

And I do like Rossco transfer money to my Bangkok Bank acc, but sometimes I haven transfer enough, or miss budged the holiday, so then I use my Norwegian card in atms.

[donnykey]

donnykey

Do you mean that bringing A$ in cash and change them to Baht in los, gives you a better exchange rate than bringing your debet/credit card and withdraw bath from a atm in los?

if that is the case it sound strange, but I will understand why you bring cash.

Yes Kinkoy thats correct (after conferring with my records) anything between .50 to 1.25 baht better exch. rate per A$ and my bank charges a FX Fee which makes cash exchange even better....I used to use credit card early in the peace but found when i got home and saw my statment and compared rates it is better this way ...Cheers Donnykey

P.S. When you heading back

[Kinkoy]

P.S. When you heading back

I'll be there from 27 March, and 4 weeks.
Would be great to meet up, if you are there.
I'll check the classified section some months before, and see whos about

[Phil Lander]

Advised both the Bank and Visa about my plans . Visa said they wanted to know as they could put a stop on it if the spending seemed a bit odd , but the Bank did'nt seem at all worried about being notified . :?

[Kinkoy]

The Thai Baht follows the US$, check your £ against the $ and I think you will see that has moved acordingly.

[PP]

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[Brit]

The Thai Baht follows the US$, check your £ against the $ and I think you will see that has moved acordingly.

In that case, the US dollar needs a major slump before xmas, or else im stuck in blighty :!:

Reading the earlier article in CNN on this thread and trying to understand this situation -

Is there an anticipation that the US dollar will slide now in value - thus devaluing linked currencies such as THB?

Another day on the US stocks being hit - but no reflection on the strength of the currency. Its a bastard !

[Phil Lander]

I just bought some Bht at 20 to 1 today as I needed some pocket money to arrive with . Hope it goes back up to 25 soon.

[koykaeng]

I just bought some Bht at 20 to 1 today as I needed some pocket money to arrive with . Hope it goes back up to 25 soon.

Phil,

I can't understand why you would do that ? :?

What is wrong with the exhange booths at the airport on arrival in Bangkok ?
Cheers
Koykaeng

[Phil Lander]

Koykaeng , I'm arriving at 11.10pm and dont want to waste any time . I'm heading straight for the hotel to shower and locking my CC cards away and then hitting a bar ASAP.
Next day I will visit an ATM for my first 10000 Bht.

[petesie]

:wink: I can see where Phils coming from, I like to have a few days dosh with me to get where I want to be without the additional hassle of visiting exchange booths/ATM's.

I usually take back home around 30k baht each time for precisely this reason.

[Recoil111]

without the additional hassle of visiting exchange booths/ATM's.

It takes a maximum of 2 minutes to change money or use the ATM on the airport. Thats no hassle for me. And it doesnt make sense to change baht already in your homecountry, the exchange rates are far more worse compares to LOS.

I usually take back home around 30k baht each time for precisely this reason.

It never happened that i have 30k Baht left when i leave the country! How you do that?