kevsyder

can anyone reccomend the best company to exchange our money into australian dollars?
Also anyone know the best company for travel insurance?

WBB

how many dollars are we talking about?

we are visiting oz next week for a month long validation trip and have set aside £2500 spending money (we have folks to stay with) we have opened an account with the nationwide BS who do free withdrawls worldwide from any cashpoint.

for travel insurance try the money supermarket.

sjn2003

WBB - Are you going to open one of those clever thingy-mgygsies with HSBC whilst over there ??? Its really straightforward, takes about 10mins with your passport. But you will also need $2000 in travellers cheques (or cash if you're flash!).

WBB

we have looked in to it and will dive in a bit deeper once on the ground over there, the missus has an account with ANZ from years ago and for some reason has loyalty to them!! :scared:

to be honest we are credit card folk who pay off the balance each month, so, we will see.

kevsyder

i've already got an english account with hsbc, but will open an oz one once i'm there, then maybe i was going to look at someone like hifx to give me a better rate into my hsbc account. Do you know wht rate hifx would give me for 10000 pounds and does anyone expect the pound to get stronger or weaker against the dollar?

Williem

Hi Kevsyder,

We used hifx to transfer our money into hsbc bank account.
The rate at the moment according to them is 2.41, but they lower the rate by a couple of cents when you actually give them the go-ahead.