---Haggisman---

Hi

Going on holiday to Brisbane in February and just wondered if you can get Aussie Travellers cheques that work the same as the ones in the States ie you use them as cash.

Cheers

The Bloke

Do they still have travellers cheques? 99.9% of businesses won't accept any types of cheques, especially when made out to cash (forget it), unless prior arrangements have been made. Plastic (ie Mastercard, VISA) and ready cash are preferred over cheques.

Latona

hi we brought them over with us only because we went to singapore for five days and tookcash there then came to au with as much cash as we could bring but brought most of it over in travellers cos its a safer way of carrying it .ill agree though not many places want to know when it comes to cashing it in but wasnt really a problem for us as we opened a bank account and paid it all in there.
godd luck
peter

---Haggisman---

Ok credit card and cash it is thanks for the reply's.

cheers

Mrs JFW

Hi Haggisman,

We used Aus travellers cheques on our rekkie in November. We only really used them as cash to pay entry to the theme parks. Mostly we just went to westpac bank and changed them into cash. We were not charged any fees for doing this.

jackie

---Haggisman---

Thanks for the reply jackie may take some cheques instead of to much cash.Was your recce to Brisbane?
This holiday will be our recce hopefully Brisbane for good end of may this year.

cheers

Mrs JFW

yes it was and we loved it. we are just getting our house ready for selling and hope to be out June July time. We will start up on the sunshine coast first and see how we go from there.

Good luck and enjoy your holiday.

Jackie

Wol

Use credit card. They mostly charge a 2.75% currency exchange addition, but two don't: Nationwide and one other. If you have time get a Nationwide card and save the 2.75%!

NickyP

Thant is good to hear as I was told that there was an $8 fee per transaction to cash them. I will check out westpac as my parents are over in a few weeks and want to bring Travellers Cheques with them.
Nicky