What type of money to take?

by **snowey** on Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:21 am

the only problem is if you take cash if any thing happens you could get in trouble but if you take sterling t.cheques you will pay commision so you will loose money so as I said earlyer take u.s t.cheques and you wont pay commision and the exchange rate is pretty much the same and the fluctuation on the dinar is only by a point or so so it wont realy affect you

by **butterfly21** on Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:28 am

How did you get Dinars in England!? I thought you were not allowed to take them out of the country.

by **snowey** on Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:07 am

you cant you get them from your hotel

by **HW Jan.C** on Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:49 pm

Tunisia is a closed currency and should not be sold or bought in any UK bank, Tunisian Dinar should be readily available to buy at your hotels once you get there. It is illegal to bring any Dinar out of Tunisia so change only what you need to do.
Jan

by **grasser26** on Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:57 pm

Because this was a last minute booking and we didn't know about the "closed currency"( first time to tunisia) my partner just asked in our bank HSBC and they supplied them, no questions asked!

by **andy jarvis** on Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:27 am

I'm supprised yopu managed to get Tunisian Dinar from HSBC as has been said it is a closed curencey, however you got ripped off, the exchange rate is 2.5 dinar to the pound or was a couple of weeks back when we were there.

by **Legs** on Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:45 pm

I would say to take english cash with you as you can change it there, the tip I can offer is to change a little bit each day as you need it as you cannot take the currency out of the country.. or at least you couldn't when I went.

Most hotels seem to provide a competive burea de change facility so you would probably be better doing that rather than faffing around at the airport.

by **andy jarvis** on Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:23 pm

You could probably get by on stirling as most places seem to take it anyway don't know if they are officialy allowed or not but most traders in the souks will take it and waiters and porters seem to prefer tips in stirling, also you can pay for excursions in stirling. One tip though, keep some Dinar to take though to the departure lounge at Monistir airport, the caffe price things up in dinar then over charge for stirling ie a bottle of water was marked up at 2.2 Dinar (exchange rate was 2.49 to the pound) they wanted �1.50 in stirling nearly twice the price it would have been in dinars, don't listen to the reps telling you to off load your change to the coach driver etc. We changed 60TD into stirling at Monistir airport and got �23, hardly worth the hassle especialy as we could have spent the dinars in the departure lounge anyway.

by **Essem** on Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:43 pm

Hi, You can exchange sterling in all banks there- it is not illegal to take sterling into Tunisia. There are two outside machines that I am aware of, one in Sousse, the other PEK that will exchange foreign notes for you - handy to know if the banks are closed. There are many ATM's throughout that area now. Probably best to take a mixture of cash and traveller's cheques and make use of the hotel safe!! On arrival at both Monastir and Tunis Airports, there are banks to exchange currency and ATM's throughout both airports.

by **andy jarvis** on Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:03 pm

No it's not ileagal to take stirling into Tunisia, however, I don't think you are supposed to use it anywhere other than those places officialy allowed to take it ie Banks, Hotels and some Government run shops.