In Reply to: Cash Passports posted by ash esp on Wednesday, 4. June 2008 at 12:33 Bali Time:
Since travelling to Thailand 3 years ago for our honeymoon, my wife and I have always taken one of these cards with us. In Thailand we used cash, traveller's cheques and the card. Then when we went to Malaysia we used the card mainly and found that they didn't have many ATM's, which was a problem.
We took it to Bali last year and although they have plenty of ATM's, we later discovered that the rate we were getting by drawing it out at ATM's was a fair bit lower that the street changers.
We're going again this year, I'm using it again mainly for piece of mind.
But we'll be using mainly cash this time.
The cards are still very handy and good to have as a fall back option.
I actually load money onto mine every pay day and use it like a saving account. Come holiday time there's usually about a grand in there, which of course gets blown on shopping etc.