Travelex Pre-paid Travel Card

I work as a tour leader in africa. i use my travelex card throughout east and southern africa including kenya, tanzania, malawi, uganda, zambia, zimbabwe, botswana, south africa at visa cash machines and in some larger stores. It works well as long as you dont rely on it as your only source of cash as some times the visa machines are offline for international transactions. It is more flexible than travellers cheques here wich are often hard to cash and subject to poor exchange rates. The only place i dont use it is zimbabwe where the forex rates on the card make it unusable but that is true for any credit card or tc. I would reccomend it to bring alongside a good stock ...

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I went to Thailand a couple of years ago and got the travelex card - it saved me money as I didn't have to keep paying to change the travel cheques - you use as a debit card with a pin number - I thought it was great but i did put all money on it at the airport, I have thinking about money on it monthly to try and save for my next hol but now having seconds as someone has commented they kept losing his money - I will inquire.

When you go abroad, especially on holiday, what do you do about money? I must admit this is one of my biggest concerns, especially when we are visiting one of those areas in the World where this can be a real problem. Recently we visited the Dominican Republic and I wasn’t sure what to do. I always carry with me three different currencies, Sterling, Euros and Dollars. I reckon that with these I can get by anywhere in the World. However, it never does to carry too much loose money around, with the eternal possibilities if muggers or pickpockets. Nevertheless, I would not feel comfortable without a reasonable supply of the readies. I also carry ...