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Trip Planning Florida Florida Holiday Planning Questions, Suggestions and Tips. |
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15 Jul 19, 09:05 PM |
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How much cash and when to buy?
I'm going for two weeks solo and onsite the whole time. How much cash would you take?
Also I'm going late September just before Brexit ( we hope!) I wasn't paying attention in March is it better to get cash now or near the looming date? Thanks |
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15 Jul 19, 09:34 PM |
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Excited about Disney
Join Date: Aug 15
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Depends what your planning to do but probably around $100 per day.
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15 Jul 19, 09:36 PM |
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Imagineer
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Worth checking your holiday insurance as think ours only covers £500 loss of cash. Normally take a mixture of preloaded cash cards, cash and credit cards
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16 Jul 19, 08:52 AM |
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Imagineer
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Do you have the dining plan? If so you'll have more food than you can eat so it would just be gifts/treats. I go 27th sept and ive listed everything i'll need cash for - transfers from airport, taxi to mall, meal i'm paying oop for and so on, makes it easier to figure out how much to change. Anything I dont use I keep for next year anyway, but dont want to overbuy as the rate is so poor.
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16 Jul 19, 08:59 AM |
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Imagineer
Join Date: Aug 18
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We took lots of cash and wished we hadn’t. We were offsite not on. Literally the only thing I actually “needed cash” for was when we ordered pizza to our villa and that was cos it wouldn’t accept English credit card online.
We used a travel credit card for everything. I had no transaction fees and plenty of time to pay it off when I got home (I already had the money though but always like a back up plan) We used far less money than we thought so I am glad I didn’t take loads with me. |
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16 Jul 19, 09:07 AM |
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VIP Dibber
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Depending on if you got the DDPand how much you spending on shopping . Me personally have a basic of 100 dollars a day if we have extra money left over then it just roll over we all so take a extra 500 dollars . That for 2 adults 🧑
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16 Jul 19, 10:14 AM |
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Excited about Disney
Join Date: Feb 16
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We take $1000 in case for 4 of us for 3 weeks, pays for tolls, tips and snacks when we are off site. For everything else we use the revolut card
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16 Jul 19, 10:19 AM |
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Imagineer
Join Date: Dec 12
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we basically take $200 cash per person, as a safety (we usually come back with them, or withdraw to replenish the reserve for next time)
the rest is take care of by no transaction/change fee cards. You'll find many talked about on here we use Revolut for instance, but you'll find many names on the forum we also have other cards, with fees, that we keep for safety, or to reload, free of charge, our no-fees cards. we do not take a huge amount of cash. Because we find it unsafe. Some will rather have all their money in cash, sometimes because it helps them visualise and manage their budget. Some even divide their cash into daily enveloppes, so they know where they stand on a daily basis. there is no rule, or better option are you confident having a huge amount of uninsured cash, or do you prefer not to have to use plastic money. Your choice will be the right one. if you wonder if it's best to get currency now or closer to the date, i'd tell you that one way would be to get a revolut card you could load it in british pounds, and then monitor the exchange rate. On the revolut app you can change pounds into dollars at the current realtime exchange rate, without fees but that's still plastic money, and even though there is no limit to what you can spend at the stores or online, withdrawals of cash is only free up to £200 a month, after that there is a fee. a good solution is to take a combination of both cash, and credit (or debit) |
16 Jul 19, 11:54 AM |
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Getting Excited
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We usually take our Clarity card and then a few hundred dollars in cash for tips, parking etc. I suppose it depends what your planning to do and buy.
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16 Jul 19, 11:59 AM |
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We take a couple of hundred in cash each and the rest in TCs. We have our bank cards if we need them (we never have except for using Uber a couple of times).
We don’t pay for anything using TCs, we exchange for cash and we like doing it this way
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