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Currency

What is the best way to take money? Lev, travellers cheques or £ sterling??
Going for week and heard Bulgaria fairly cheap, Whats it like for eating out and drinking??

re: Currency

Search through messages like this that are posted daily, but, if I may bullet point...

- Take sterling (clean and crisp) and a cash card to use in machines.
- Only change at reputable places such as the hotel, or withdraw cash with card
- Bulgara is cheap (well done)
- They have both food and drink. (only joking, food is fine, try local dishes such as kavarma and don't expect food to be that hot, Bulgarians prefer warm food)

re: Currency

To add to the above, we found last year in Pamps that travellors cheques (as recommended by our travel agent as a necessity becuase of theft at the airport) were a real nuisance and a total waste of time. THere was one or perhaps two places to cash them, which were only open when we were on the slopes. I ended up bringing mine back uncashed and getting money out of the ATM.

re: Currency

be careful on the slopes the little kiosks to change money. The swindle you. The hotels do 2.50 leve to the £1 but we found the bank inthe perilic hotel does 2.80 to the £1 so better.

re: Currency

Take a few Levs but they are quite happy to take sterling. So take a bit of both! Don't know any places but trust me, the Hot Chocolates good!