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- Jan 23, 2012
Where are you getting your best rates from? I have used travelex and aussiepost( Amex) before for $usd cash....any other suggestions?
Where are you getting your best rates from? I have used travelex and aussiepost( Amex) before for $usd cash....any other suggestions?
JessNewbs said:I will just be getting my small cash for my trip from my bank. From what they told me, you just contact them and they order the cash into your local branch, then they contact you to pick it up!
Finally made it back to Westpac yesterday to pick up all our US dollars, Canadian dollars, Euros and Pounds. I hadn't seen CAD's, Euros or Pounds before so that was pretty exciting.
australiankaren said:getting my ching ching next week
hopefully will be around $1.06 if andona doesnt make it sad
Can anyone suggest anywhere to get some smaller currency? I want to have some small stuff so I am ready to tip etc straight away.
The smallest we got through Aus Post was $50 notes. Our post office lady said that what many people do when they arrive is to buy something small to get change or find a vending machine that takes notes to get the change.
If you go to Westpacs website, you can buy international currency online. You just enter how much you would like and then it will ask what denominations you would like - Small, Large or Mixed. I selescted mixed and bought $600 worth and got quite a good break down. A couple of hundreds and fifties, but the rest was all 20's, 10's , 5's and 1's. I am assuming if you enter you would like smaller notes it will not give you 100's or 50's. It cost only $4 AU but with the exchange rate, I still got over what I asked for!
You then just select which branch you would like to pick it from and go Bpay it! Mine was ready in about 5 days!
Here is the link if you would like to have a look!
https://www.fx4you.com/westpac/step...d0ac460b4-D772A2D0-0726-5E8C-34331ABFF9524C2F
Cheers
I did the same thing but via the virgin australia website. They use the same company but no fee and you can collect at amex or aus post locations. we got a mix pack which included all denominations but i know in the small mix you only get 1 5 10 and 20s.