My Tesco credit card works out really expensive, or it did the last time I used ot for foreign payments. Crappy exchange rate + commission.
Get a Revolut card revolut.com/ , it makes paying in foreign currencies (well, $ and €) so much easier - also using ATMs abroad - and you get top exchange rates and no commission. Manage it on your phone. I used it to withdraw cash from ATMs also to pay restaurant bills in Egypt and there is no charge whatsoever.
Only drawback is that as it's a prepay card some places in the States weren't keen on it. Also where they put a hold on an amount of money but don't actually take it out, (e.g. hotel deposit I think, or was it car hire?) the money has to be on your card, and is then locked till it is unheld.
Last edited by: smokie on Wed 24 May 17 at 16:12
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