Cash, card or cheque ?
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01/18/03 11:31 PM
01/18/03 11:31 PM
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Posts: 264 Cornwall Ontario Canada
Danl & the Boop
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What is the best way to convert money in San Pedro?  You have to give it to Marty, this board is one fantastic place to get info on A.C. By using the search engine, I was able to find lots of information, as this subject seems to come up about this time over the last two years. The only thing I can't seem to find out is whether you can get cash from the local banks with an old fashioned check? (cheque, here in the great white north). Do you remember long ago, before A. T. M.s, and Internet banking when we would take a piece of paper into a bank and they would give us cash? I was wondering if a person can still do that in San Pedro? When we go to Mexico, even the little towns seem to have A. T. M.s that will spit out Pesos. We don't like to carry a lot of cash and I hate travelers cheques so maybe someone on here can tell us if they have tried this approach. Any help would be appreciated; Thanks; Dan'l O.
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Re: Cash, card or cheque ?
#61630
01/19/03 12:51 AM
01/19/03 12:51 AM
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Posts: 713 Fremont, CA, USA
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Do you like giving at least 5% of your money to banks and governments, for NOTHING???? If not, you will need to get over your aversion to travelers checks or cash, otherwise you will pay the "GOB borrow and spend tax" on your money. Buy a money belt that goes under your clothes. If you do not trust your environment (and theft from rooms by employees of hotels is very very very rare on AC, in 11 years, we have NEVER had a guest report a theft from their room), ask to put it in the hotel safe if there is one. Or bring some of your cash in travelers checks in SMALL denominations ($20) but be sure to pack them in plastic as they are void if wet in Belize. I doubt if any Belizean bank would allow you to cash a personal check even if you pay the outrageous fees and if you get money against your credit card you will pay ever more. Bad idea. Bring cash and travelers checks. Do not "convert" money it is not necessary. Dollars are accepted (happily) everywhere. You can also use a credit card most places (except the least expensive restaurants) but you may be hit with a surcharge in some places.
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Re: Cash, card or cheque ?
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01/19/03 02:44 PM
01/19/03 02:44 PM
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Posts: 264 Cornwall Ontario Canada
Danl & the Boop
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Ok, Ok we get the message It's been ten years since I was in San Pedro but it looks like things havn't changed that much. You'll see our pale & frozen faces in about a month. Can you still rent scooters at a reasonable cost? That was about the only way to get around in those days. Thanks for all the help. :rolleyes: Dan'l O.
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Re: Cash, card or cheque ?
#61635
01/19/03 08:20 PM
01/19/03 08:20 PM
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Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 215 Denver, Colorado, USA
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Danl O -
I have only seen rare scooters on the island and a few more ATV's lately. The method of choice these days is a golf cart or bicycle.
I prefer golf cart because it's not very easy to carry grocery items from town on a bike without a basket. Good exercise (to work off all the Belikin), but not very practical if you plan on purchasing your own food-stuffs.
Have a blast!
- - - "Everywhere I turn all the beauty just keeps shaking me." Amy Ray, World Falls
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