Quote Originally Posted by Koala View Post
I sent mine away 14th April, Havent got it back yet

Although that was only 10 business days ago, so hopefully it should be on its way today or tomorrow!
Sent it off just before Easter, so yours shouldn't be far away.


As for the money the Cash Passports that pv4 suggest are indeed the way to go. I'm in the travel industry and dealt with these a fair bit. If you load it up at an agency they may charge you a fee (was 1% when I was in retail, but we actually never charged it) however if you load up the minimum amount and BPAY the rest on the BPAY'd amount has no fees at all.

Have used the cards in various places such as Fiji, Thailand, New Zealand and Indonesia and have never had any trouble with them at all. I'm just going to load one card up in AUD and deal with the currency conversion fees (which aren't even that bad). The thing I like about them is that they aren't linked to you bank account so you're A) not paying interest on what you spend; and B) if stolen can only get to what is loaded on the card (even then they give you 2 cards with 2 individual PIN numbers so that you can cancel the lost/stolen one and carry on with the other.