It’s always important to get the best price possible when exchanging your cash into your chosen destinations currency.

We don’t recommend you convert all your spending money to cash, as it’s easy to be stolen, but a small amount is great. When exchanging currency it’s worth knowing that companies take a commission for converting your cash. This means you need to factor this information in when working our if a competitive exchange rate is as good value as it seems.

Ideally finding a company which charges no commission fee and offers a competitive rate is you should be looking for, but again some companies who advertise ‘no commission’ deals offer a poor exchange rate or a handling fee.