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posts : 13 (Beginner)Date : 08-26-06 08:45currency
Hi i'm going to borovets this winter, and i've heard that it is better to take stirling or dollors as money, i was just wondering if anyone had any advise?re: currency
Hi Heather,I wolud take a little bit of lev to start you off, then I would either take stirling or just use the cash points in resorts, they give quite a good exchange rates.
Hope it helps
Chris
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if you are taking sterling then make sure the notes are crisp and clean with no rips and no markings on them(pen marks).re: currency
You do not need Dollars this is out of date info. You can get Levs here before you go a good rate should be 2.6lev to the £. If you take sterling follow above advice.re: currency
2.6 Leva to the Pound is currently pretty poor, even by UK standards - Travelex are offering 2.7541 online today and Bulgarian banks are offering the following rates today:Raiffeisen - 2.870
Postbank - 2.8680
Baldur
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Hi Baldur,A fellow refugee from the "other side"? ?
Peter
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Blimey you can tell the other side is down today
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Hi Peter,Yes - it may be sunnier there, but very quiet at the moment....
To add to my previous 'exchange rates post' - Marks & Spencer are offering a rate of 2.765 online today - only the likes of the Post Office (2.5993) and the high street banks (e.g. HSBC - 2.629933)/travel agencies (e.g. Going Places - 2.5843) are anywhere near as low as 2.6.
Baldur
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try igor next to happy duck, good rates nudge nudge wink wink, or val the yellow taxi driver.re: currency
That's incredibly BAD advice, Poundstretcher.
You might know an honest Igor or a Val via personal contact, but the 'psst - change money' guys are rip off merchants.
E
very year we meet those who through naivety, stupidity or greed have thought they would get a better exchange deal only to have their wallets snatched when they get them out, or to be given obsolete notes, Yugoslav dinars, Russian roubles, wads of plain paper, and anything but legal leva to the amount promised.
The only ...
You might know an honest Igor or a Val via personal contact, but the 'psst - change money' guys are rip off merchants.
E
very year we meet those who through naivety, stupidity or greed have thought they would get a better exchange deal only to have their wallets snatched when they get them out, or to be given obsolete notes, Yugoslav dinars, Russian roubles, wads of plain paper, and anything but legal leva to the amount promised.
The only ...
That's incredibly BAD advice, Poundstretcher.
You might know an honest Igor or a Val via personal contact, but the 'psst - change money' guys are rip off merchants.
E
very year we meet those who through naivety, stupidity or greed have thought they would get a better exchange deal only to have their wallets snatched when they get them out, or to be given obsolete notes, Yugoslav dinars, Russian roubles, wads of plain paper, and anything but legal leva to the amount promised.
The only safe places to change money are proper banks or hotel receptions. In Sunny Beach there are Crown exchanges.
Anywhere else and I can promise you will regret it, unless of course you have a good contact that amounts to a personal friend, but few tourists have.
Peter
You might know an honest Igor or a Val via personal contact, but the 'psst - change money' guys are rip off merchants.
E
very year we meet those who through naivety, stupidity or greed have thought they would get a better exchange deal only to have their wallets snatched when they get them out, or to be given obsolete notes, Yugoslav dinars, Russian roubles, wads of plain paper, and anything but legal leva to the amount promised.
The only safe places to change money are proper banks or hotel receptions. In Sunny Beach there are Crown exchanges.
Anywhere else and I can promise you will regret it, unless of course you have a good contact that amounts to a personal friend, but few tourists have.
Peter
