I've never been sure about what is the best way to take money abroad. Taking all cash away with you is obviously very insecure, and I've always found travellers cheques a bit of a hassle (although great from the protection point of view). I used to use a Nationwide FlexAccount and credit card as they didn't charge for foreign currency transactions, but then they introduced a charge so I stopped using them. - Why Fairfx? I was on a cashback website one day when I saw that there was an offer with Fairfx for a free foreign currency card and also cashback if you applied for one. Not being one who likes to turn down free things I thought I'd ...  Read the complete review

When planning a holiday abroad you have lots of things that you need to make sure you have ready before you go including making sure your passport is valid, getting travel insurance and getting your travel money. Most banks charge you an average of 2.75% on using debit and credit cards abroad but as it's not safe to carry around large amounts of cash in a foreign country, you can of course get travellers cheques too but this is fast becoming an out dated way of spending abroad. Before my trip to America in April I was looking for a safe way to take my cash with me and came across the FairFx Card which was being promoted by Martin Lewis on ...  Read the complete review

I recently have come back from America but along with the usual planning of any holiday i thought how i was going to take my travel money was a harder decision then it would be if i was just travelling to Spain or Greece. After reading about the various money cards on money saving expert, and constantly checking the exchange rate, i decided to take £300 cash and everything else to be pre-loaded onto a travel money card. The reason i chose the fairfx card was because i thought the exchange rate was better compaired to the Post Office where i would have gone for any cash or traveller cheques. Plus by going through a link on the money saving ...  Read the complete review

The card itself works fine, application is easy and the fees are reasonable. However, the are money grabbing, misleading and the customer service is terrible. While in Spain we rented a Quadbike and a block was put on my card for Euro300. We returned the bike and the transaction was reversed. But after two days the money has still not gone back to my card. I returned to the merchant and he confirmed and showed me that the transaction was cancelled and that FairFX was responsible for the delay. After a two day delay i finally got a reply to my email, shame i was already back in the UK. The representative said that it will take 21 days for the money to go to my card, or I .  Read the complete review