Money left in safe!!

[glindathegoodbitch]

Dear all,

My elderly parents recently holidayed in Montenegro.
Upon completing their 4 hour journey to the airport to catch their flight home, my mother realised she had left her purse containing £600 in English cash in the safe.

The hotel have been brilliant and have the purse, but we cannot work out how to get it home to England.

DHL won't carry it as they do not ship money. The standard post is liable to get stopped at customs/ stolen.

Can the hotel put the money I an English bank?

I don't know much about Montenegro, but my father says it's about 20 years behind the rest of Europe??

Any advice would be gratefully received

X

She could ask them to do that or just take the risk and post it without mentioning the money.

Could you set up a western union account and get them to send it that way? Will pay a percentage but will get majority of it back

How would they put it into an English account? I've never paid a foreign account from England. Is it just a case of sort codes and account numbers?
The trouble is, it's in English cash. Apparently they're a bit funny about it over there.

My dad is ringing me every three hours to see if I've got his money back (got to love the fact that he thinks I have absolutely nothing else to do), and is driving me insane!!!

The hotel are worried about money laundering. I am third party to this and my dad is slightly bonkers and there is a language barrier so... Thats great!

Is there a British consulate or anything similar that may be able to help?

Can anyone hop a cheap flight collect it?

Montenegro is a real pain to get to.

I think I'm going to try western union???

I asked dad about hotel credit for a future visit (I thought this was a rather good idea!!)

He said he won't be returning because the taxi's were very expensive....

I would honestly kill for a holiday abroad!! There's just no pleasing some grumpy old people

dont post it, it will get stolen. what do the travel insurers say , or did they just laugh?