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Subject: Re: Brit's Money in NY - Help! Posted on: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 09:18:33 -0500

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 05:48:37 -0600, fa_tboy
wrote:

>
>Hi,
>Me and my (equally as bardly travelled) girlfriend are about to head to
>NY and need some advice!
>We are planning, on the advise of my bank, to take some travellors
>cheques as back up but to generally just use ATM's. I would assume
>that we'd get a rubbish exchange rate from this but it seems to be the
>advice. We are on a budget so every penny counts. can anyone advise
>me?

You will get the best exchange rates these days. The lousy will come
if you use the traveller's checks, not to mention the fees that they
usually put on as well.