My advice is to take cash. When you get to Egypt, you can exchange your US dollars for Egyptian pounds. Don't exchange too many dollars because any Egyptian pounds you have left over, the banks in Egypt will not give you U S dollars again. Once they get your dollars, they won't give accept left over Egyptian pounds for US dollars. So my advice is to take US dollars cash and exchange them for Egyptian pounds when you get to Egypt. A lot of places don't take traveler's checks anymore. The touristy places do take credit cards. There are plenty of ATM's in the hotels and tourist districts. For the belly dance costume studios, they prefer you pay in US dollars, but at Khan El Khalili you can pay in LE (Egyptian pounds).
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Originally Posted by tigerb
So, we're booked in for Cairo next March! Yay!
What's the best way to take your money along? Pre-loaded credit card for the ATMs? (Are there many ATMs?) Traveler's checks in US$? Traveler's checks in something else? Just plain cash?
Your advice appreciated!  |