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I appeal to those tourists who have had experience using travel checks.
Please tell me, if you use travel checks to obtain a visa, what to do with them next (provided that you are not going to the Czech Republic for shopping).
1) How problematic is it to convert them back into money (interested - first of all - in the Czech Republic). And where can it be done?
2) How much money do you lose?
3) Where in the Czech Republic can I pay with travel checks?
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Please tell me, if you use travel checks to obtain a visa, what to do with them next (provided that you are not going to the Czech Republic for shopping).
1) How problematic is it to convert them back into money (interested - first of all - in the Czech Republic). And where can it be done?
2) How much money do you lose?
3) Where in the Czech Republic can I pay with travel checks?
Thanks
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You can keep them and use them when you get your next visa. Previously, it was most profitable to pay in the store, as it was at face value, without deducting interest. I don't know how they are accepted in stores now. You can return them at special points, indicated on the paper for these checks, or at many bank branches in the same Czech Republic or another country, but the percentage is higher there. As far as I know, it is most profitable to hand over to the bank where you bought
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answered 15 years ago
I had the experience of using these checks, which was very negative. It was a long time ago, maybe now it’s not relevant. They also demanded these checks in Italy and the bank gave them to me in the form of an ordinary bank plastic card, which raised questions already at Forli airport.
Then I could not pay with it for purchases in the store, and it was impossible to withdraw money from an ATM, because. the pin code was four-digit, but it was required to enter a six-digit one. I went to the bank, where, with the help of employees, I tried to do this. It did not work out.
As a result, I was left without money at all - I typed a combination in all ATMs in a row, as I understand it, it worked somewhere, the ATM dispensed money, but my nerves were at the limit, and I obviously left without waiting for the machine to give out money .
I have never dealt with travel checks again. But now it’s probably easier, maybe it’s enough to just have a plastic card?
Then I could not pay with it for purchases in the store, and it was impossible to withdraw money from an ATM, because. the pin code was four-digit, but it was required to enter a six-digit one. I went to the bank, where, with the help of employees, I tried to do this. It did not work out.
As a result, I was left without money at all - I typed a combination in all ATMs in a row, as I understand it, it worked somewhere, the ATM dispensed money, but my nerves were at the limit, and I obviously left without waiting for the machine to give out money .
I have never dealt with travel checks again. But now it’s probably easier, maybe it’s enough to just have a plastic card?
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answered 15 years ago
I used traveller's checks.
When buying - you have a list of banks where they can be exchanged for the currency of the country you are going to.
Always available at the airport. Usually, they all changed there.
The percentage should have been indicated to you, as well as partner banks.
But - if you do not need Czech crowns - then the third question is not clear.
Agree with Marta70 - Return travel checks to your bank. This is the smallest percentage of losses - but only if you are not going to convert them into euro again.
When buying - you have a list of banks where they can be exchanged for the currency of the country you are going to.
Always available at the airport. Usually, they all changed there.
The percentage should have been indicated to you, as well as partner banks.
But - if you do not need Czech crowns - then the third question is not clear.
Agree with Marta70 - Return travel checks to your bank. This is the smallest percentage of losses - but only if you are not going to convert them into euro again.
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answered 15 years ago