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Prepaid Travel Money Card??? Has anyone used one??

I have been looking around the net and I have a 'Prepaid Travel Money Card' and I am wondering if anyone has used one before??

15 years ago, April 3rd 2009 No: 1 Msg: #68103 Delete Edit

Massey08
Rick Massey

B Posts: 24

I have been looking around the net and I have a 'Prepaid Travel Money Card' and I am wondering if anyone has used one before??

You can get them for a number of different companies. UK post office, FairFX, ICE all issue them to people but all with different rates & charges. The card is basically a mastercard but without the credit card options - ie. you can only spend what you put on the card and nothing more. The plus point, is that you can withdraw money from any ATM that has a mastercard logo!!

Does anyone have any experience in using these??? If so, are they any good?? And which company did they use??

I dont want to be taking travellers cheque's or cash as I am travelling round Asia for 4 months. Currently, all I have is a debit/maestro card and dont want to run the risk of not being able to withdraw money out

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15 years ago, April 3rd 2009 No: 2 Msg: #68144 Delete Edit

takahe
CL

B Posts: 18

Well, lots of mobs (including all the major banks) were trying to flog them off in NZ before I left. For getting cash, they seemed to have no advantages over a standard ATM card, and plenty of disadvantages (mainly excessive fees). So I didn't bother.

Maestro cards are surely useable anywhere on the cirrus network? Which in most countries (notable exception: Japan) means pretty much any ATM. Just have a little cash and/or travellers cheques (USD is best; euros and GBP would work also) as a backup. Reply to this

14 years ago, April 26th 2010 No: 3 Msg: #109622 Delete Edit

Drew82
Andrew Webber

N Posts: 7

Hi
I'm off travelling in a few days - first stop Austria so glad that flights are getting back to normal!
I had a similar conversion on here a few weeks ago - I very kindly received a lot of great recommendations - there is a lot of prepaid cards out there but the most popular seemed to be the caxton fx travel money card - mainly because it doesn't charge ATM fees and they got me a great exchange rate. Have already received and put money on my euro card (i've also got a Global traveller for out of the eurozone) - all you have to do is ring them! Hope this helps.
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