{"id":16659,"date":"2022-09-21T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/?p=16659"},"modified":"2023-04-05T15:42:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:42:25","slug":"what-to-do-with-leftover-foreign-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/what-to-do-with-leftover-foreign-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do with leftover foreign currency?"},"content":{"rendered":"Approx read: <\/span> 3<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

Don’t know what to do with your leftover dinar?<\/h2>\n

You can exchange your leftover cash at the airport (at a terrible rate) but do you really want the financial transaction in your holiday destination to be a wallet-rinsing rip-off?<\/h3>\n

Follow these tips to get the biggest bang for your foreign bucks.<\/p>\n

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Did you tip housekeeping?<\/h4>\n

It’s polite to leave a little something for the people who made your home away from very homey during your stay. Tip: stack your dalasis and bututs neatly to show your appreciation.<\/p>\n

See if your hotel will accept it as partial payment for your bill<\/h4>\n

Before you check out, ask the front desk clerk if you can use your leftover currency to pay for part of your hotel bill. Tip: make sure you approach them when they aren’t busy- it’s not nice to make Nepalese clerks count all those paisa and rupees when there’s a queue!<\/p>\n

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Buy a round for the house<\/h4>\n

Go to a place you enjoyed and buy a round of drinks. Tip: don’t forget to leave a few levs and stotinki for the best bartender in Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

Exchange them at a supermarket, use the voucher for last-day snacks<\/h4>\n

Dump your change into a coin converter for a voucher. You’ll pay a small percentage for the convenience, but it’s fun to see how close you can get to spending every single shekel and agorot in an Israeli grocery store. Tip: don’t try this in the US, where prices don’t include tax.<\/p>\n

Load up your Starbucks card<\/h4>\n

The Republic of Ireland, Mexico, Australia, Canada, the USA, and the UK have the Starbucks card program. <\/a>Convert your leftover pesos to pounds on your loyalty card.<\/p>\n

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Tip street musicians and performers<\/h4>\n

Toss your extra tugriks to your favourite buskers.<\/p>\n

Donate to a charity<\/h4>\n

Museums, churches, that hobo with the funny sign. Tip: Forgot? Most airports have collection boxes for a variety of worthy causes.<\/p>\n

Hit the duty-free<\/h4>\n

Put those extra zloty to work by buying souvenirs, snacks, and Polish vodka.<\/p>\n

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Use the cash as souvenirs<\/h4>\n

A neat thing about foreign currency is that it looks so weird! A Zambian kwacha or a few ngwees is an inexpensive souvenir waaay cooler than a tacky plastic fridge magnet.<\/p>\n

Buy crypto at a cryptocurrency ATM<\/a><\/h4>\n

This can be an amusing diversion at the airport for those who want to dip a toe into the Ethereum. Tip: never buy crypto with anything other than cash at a foreign ATM in a foreign country.<\/p>\n

Keep it as motivation to return to your holiday destination<\/h4>\n

Next time you go, you’ll have a little walking-around money to get you started.<\/h4>\n

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How to avoid sneaky expenses and ATM fees whilst abroad<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t know what to do with your leftover dinar? You can exchange your leftover cash at the airport (at a terrible rate) but do you really want the financial transaction in your holiday destination to be a wallet-rinsing rip-off? Follow these tips to get the biggest bang for your foreign bucks. Did you tip housekeeping? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":16663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solo-travel","category-travel-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16659"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16671,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659\/revisions\/16671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}