Travel to Spain - travel money

[maggiethecat]

We normally buy a few euros here and then use card to pay for meals etc but I'm thinking that it might be better to take sterling and change when in Spain. Does anyone know if I'm likely to get a better rate for euros there rather than buying them here?

It always seems too much trouble to me to do that.

I usually order a wad of euros - and load up my travelex card with euros too. I take adebit card in case we run out of money and have to withdraw cash.

sometimes you can get a better rate, but you may have to pay a comission on it - or exchange a largeish amount to fix that good rate.

I usuallly order from Travelex -for the cash. It is always the best rate of exchange - and if you order over err.. i think £500 you get free delivery to your home.

Probably too late to get travelex to send to us. Leave on Monday.

It's not like I never knew about this holiday!

You can pre-order using travelex and pick u at the airport. (not all airports have the service). I think you get the same rate doing it this way as for a home delivery.

If you just buy at the airport without a pre-order then you pay much more.

Thanks - ended up getting it from sainsburys bank - think their rate is tiny bit better than travelex but importantly I could collect from shop. Travelex not at airport I'm leaving from.