How much cash do you carry when travelling abroad

Why not western union yourselves per day ?

Just call and say your doing several transactions or get enough for 2 days then go back and pick up another 2 days worth plus you get it converted to their money
 
If you're going to western Europe (Germany, U.K., France, Begium, etc.) they will take your credit card and you can use the ATMs to get euro's. Going to Japan/Korea, same but might be better to have cash. Some third world toilet, enough to do what you need to do (eat, shop, cab), leave your cards and cash in your hotel room security container.
If you're going to western Europe (Germany, U.K., France, Begium, etc.) they will take your credit card and you can use the ATMs to get euro's. Going to Japan/Korea, same but might be better to have cash. Some third world toilet, enough to do what you need to do (eat, shop, cab), leave your cards and cash in your hotel room security container.

Whats a third world toilet?
 
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Used these in a few middle Eastern countries, not the most comfortable but they get the job done

As for the cash question, when I'm abroad I only use cash unless at an airport. A lot of the countries I have been to in recent years don't have the best credit card infrastructure available yet. $75-$100 a day is usually enough
 
Whats a third world toilet?
Some place like Honduras for example, cops are just decoration could care less about tourists so you're east pickings for local pick-pockets and petty criminals. If all you're carrying is 20 bucks then no big deal (kinda, sorta). Your credit cards/passport/cash still in your hotel. Unless you're staying in some janky hotel who robbed you while you're gone drinking
 
whenever i travel, usually its to Acapulco, Mexico. With it being the 4th most dangerous city in the world, i only carry as needed.
 
Went to Madrid for 10 days at the end of december. Brought a lil north of 1k euros, it was barely enough. That 21% tax aint no joke.
 
yeah, if you're gonna be around for a while I'd carry both a backup card and some cash.

long story shortish, a machine ate my card here in Mexico one time. and I was well and truly ****** if I couldn't have my parents send me money I transferred to them from my account via MoneyGram literally every few days so I could do things like eat and pay my rent while a new card was shipped to me.

the surcharge is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 percent on max transfers ($250 here), which I had to pay many, many times. those moneygrubbers easily taxed me for a couple hundred in the interim, and I could have avoided all that with a second card.

the other point is that you can't go everywhere expecting to wave your magic rectangle around to solve all your problems. most places do accept cards, which is cool until you need the one that doesn't.

I feel like keeping the proportionate equivalent of $200 cash on your person or in a safe place will enable you to kick out of pretty any situation, should you get stranded and need accommodations in the middle of nowhere, have to pay some ridiculous flight change fee, lose your passport somehow, etc.

oh, by the way...I would have been better off going to retrieve the new card myself. it didn't arrive south of the border for 2 months.

long story long.
 
^good story. Read the full version. It was entertaining and well written! Sure it wasn't entertaining while going through it.
 
In 2017, more and more places accept credit cards.

When you're travelling abroad, are you worried about pick-pocketters. Or perhaps get assaulted and robbed.

That's one of the risks you take when you carry large sums of cash.

However, if you carry around your debit card... you run the risk of losing or having your debit card stolen. Or you get held hostage to extract funds out of your bank account


^^You'd be surprised. If you're going to Western Europe as mentioned yea you will be fine.


But if you're traveling to Southeast Asia, Central/South America, you would be hard pressed to be able to use your credit card. These are traditional cash societies, and seems to remain that way.

In my Travels I always have my Chase Reserve on me, but its not everywhere that I can use it. I was even surprised that they don't take credit card in Bangkok airport, at some small shops there.


When you get out to rural cities, your credits cards will be next to useless.

It depends where are you are traveling too, and length of time.
 
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