Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Banks, Interest, Money Transfers, Insurance => Topic started by: Ally B on April 11, 2018, 13:33:01 PM
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Can anyone give advice on the best way to take my holiday money to Turkey. I always used travelers cheques but not sure now.
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Ally
We always take sterling and change it up in Fethiye change office or the jewellers in Calis 8)
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Thanks badger but not sure about leaving a lot of cash in the apartment safe.
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Withdrawing from ATMs on specific credit cards gets you top rate*. These cards are Barclaycard Travel Card, Halifax Clarity, and Santander Zero (but you need to be a current account holder with them). Of these the Barclaycard because it does not charge interest on non-sterling withdrawals.
* if you took out lira yesterday with one of these cards you would have got £1 = 5.73/5.74 TL.
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Withdrawing from ATMs on specific credit cards gets you top rate*. These cards are Barclaycard Travel Card, Halifax Clarity, and Santander Zero (but you need to be a current account holder with them). Of these the Barclaycard because it does not charge interest on non-sterling withdrawals.
* if you took out lira yesterday with one of these cards you would have got £1 = 5.73/5.74 TL.
Agree I use a Halifax Clarity card and pay the balance the day I return. gets the actual rate plus charges a tiny bit of interest on the money until you pay it back. last time I used it I got the same rate as XE but was charged about 34p interest. I didn't know Santander Zero did the same thing Ive got one of those but have only used it once.
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I didn't mention that all three of these cards allow you to pay goods and services without foreign currency charge so you get top rate on meals, drinks, hotels etc.