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bantaba
Switzerland
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 Posted - 28 Aug 2006 : 02:22:36
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Another question that i have is that when going to the Gambia is it better to take cash, credit card or traveler's cheque.
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gambiabev
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28 Aug 2006 : 09:53:16
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Credit card is ALMOST useless. Take some cash and a debit card so you can access your money at home. Also with baybaya express in senegambia you can do same day transfers of cash.
Why not open a bank account at trust bank? Then next time you can transfer money to be waiting for you?! |
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Galo Sowe
Sweden
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Posted - 28 Aug 2006 : 12:15:33
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| You can use VISA card but the fees are very high (around £3 each time). The maximum amount for a withdrawal is 2000 Dalasis and you can only receive up to 4000 Dalasis per day. |
"Soldiers are experts at camouflage but that is on the battle field not the political one, were transparency is the watch word" Kaaniba |
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leokat
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28 Aug 2006 : 17:48:06
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| cash in a good strong, waterproof, money bag. Also, a debit card as a backup - but check the withdrawl limits as set out in the thread above. |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 28 Aug 2006 : 19:33:22
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| Bayba is very good at money transfer,although it is true to say that you can get a better rate for cash as their rates tend to be at the botttom of the scale,I also note that they do a mastercard that has unusual features,personally I use travellers cheques and just take a small amount of back up cash. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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jambo
3300 Posts |
Posted - 30 Aug 2006 : 20:28:00
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Cash always, travellers cheques are good for the hotels and paying for trips or big purchases. Try not to take too many £50.00
credit cards i think only the hotels take them as payment sa for a meal or something, cash ponts only five and if the power is down forget it big problems.
if you are going from gatwick change some money at the airport so that you have dls to land with. I try to take dollar bills as they can be changed by the locals, and local love foreign notes.
£1.00 coins cannot be changed. i have not met any places that will change them. |
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 30 Aug 2006 : 20:58:06
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| one pound coins attract a lower rate of exchange so its not value for money. The same thing is ture of small dollar bills up to 20. |
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jambo
3300 Posts |
Posted - 31 Aug 2006 : 20:22:34
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Not so, last visit 30 dls for one dlr , the reason i carry these is it is easy to carry paper and exchange it, to keep changing a 5.00 poundote, also it is nice to give that to someone who has done me a favour. |
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LEMON TIME
Afghanistan
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Posted - 01 Sep 2006 : 02:58:06
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| Very good points,keep on the good advice guys. |
There is no god but Allah |
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 01 Sep 2006 : 22:47:37
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| HOW COME I HAVE NEVER HAD D28.00 FOR A DOLLAR. IS SOMEONE CHEATING ME? JAMBO WHERE DO YOU GET D30.00 FOR A DOLLAR? |
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bantaba
Switzerland
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Posted - 02 Sep 2006 : 01:43:49
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| I just looked up the convertion rate of a dollar to dalasis, it is $1 to D29. Pounds goes much further in the Gambia |
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jambo
3300 Posts |
Posted - 02 Sep 2006 : 10:28:11
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well there you go, official rate is 29 dls, which is not bad unofficial rate is always higher. 
Kons you need to get out more change your broker  |
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LEMON TIME
Afghanistan
1295 Posts |
Posted - 02 Sep 2006 : 15:43:39
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There is no god but Allah |
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sab
United Kingdom
912 Posts |
Posted - 02 Sep 2006 : 16:05:49
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| So who needs all the economic advisers as related too in today's 'Prez Candidate Nomination,' when Bantaba have their own 'Jambo' Well done on the dollar - nineteen years we have been taking sterling, looks like we should have been more observant, urghhhhhhhhh |
The world would be a poorer place if it was peopled by children whose parents risked nothing in the cause of social justice, for fear of personal loss. (Joe Slovo - African revolutionary) |
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jambo
3300 Posts |
Posted - 03 Sep 2006 : 19:15:26
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it was easier when the pound was note, the problem is coins, no one changes them or if they do it is a minmum of 50 one pounds . Locals still want sterling, the dollar is okay, but the euro , but i believe that they will change most currencies. someone wants your money.
but Sab be careful where you change it, some people are starting a nice little money laundering business |
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sab
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 Sep 2006 : 22:00:37
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Jambo - even we cannot remember taking £notes to The Gambia (since 1988) - you must be a dinosaur!
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