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Tine73
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Meditteranean Cruise - how much spending money?
We leave on Sept 1 for a Mediterranean cruise and we booked all of the excursions that we plan to take. Most of our meals are covered.
How much cash should we take? I know the question is relative to spending habits, but any suggestions would be helpful. I was thinking about $500 in cash and use a credit card for anything else.
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Re: Meditteranean Cruise - how much spending money?
b/c the dollar isn't as strong against the Euro, I would charge everything - you will get a better exchange rate. (At least that's what we found when we went to Greece.)
Have a BLAST! What cities are you visiting?!
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| Posted 8/7/06 11:22 PM |
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Re: Meditteranean Cruise - how much spending money?
Charge what you can and take about 400-500 in cash
we went on a med. for our honeymoon and the exchange rate stinks!
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| Posted 8/8/06 10:15 AM |
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Tine73
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Re: Meditteranean Cruise - how much spending money?
Posted by Colleen9304
b/c the dollar isn't as strong against the Euro, I would charge everything - you will get a better exchange rate. (At least that's what we found when we went to Greece.)
Have a BLAST! What cities are you visiting?!
Thanks! We leave out of Barcelona and go to Nice, Monte Carlo, Rome, Naples, Malta and Mallorca. We can't wait, butwe are a little scared bc it's our first cruise and we hope we like it.
DH has never been to Europe before, so I am excited that we are going to a few countries so he can experience them!
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Re: Meditteranean Cruise - how much spending money?
Posted by Colleen9304
b/c the dollar isn't as strong against the Euro, I would charge everything - you will get a better exchange rate. (At least that's what we found when we went to Greece.)
Have a BLAST! What cities are you visiting?!
Agree! We did this when we went to Europe last fall. Just charged everything.
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Re: Meditteranean Cruise - how much spending money?
Colleen, not really sure, but I jsut got basck from Malta(im from there, wellt he smaller island Gozo) and the exchange rate sucks.Use your CC as much as you can and they dont use euros there so you would have to transfer over to pounds, but since the ship is usually in port for jsut a few hours you probably really wont need much cash or ccc's. have a blast. QWuick note, mdina and gozo glass is quite inexpensive and really beautiful.
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Re: Meditteranean Cruise - how much spending money?
Posted by BackInNewYork
Thanks! We leave out of Barcelona and go to Nice, Monte Carlo, Rome, Naples, Malta and Mallorca. We can't wait, butwe are a little scared bc it's our first cruise and we hope we like it.
DH has never been to Europe before, so I am excited that we are going to a few countries so he can experience them!
Sounds incredible! Have a fantastic time! 
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Tine73
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Re: Meditteranean Cruise - how much spending money?
Posted by wannabpreggers
Colleen, not really sure, but I jsut got basck from Malta(im from there, wellt he smaller island Gozo) and the exchange rate sucks.Use your CC as much as you can and they dont use euros there so you would have to transfer over to pounds, but since the ship is usually in port for jsut a few hours you probably really wont need much cash or ccc's. have a blast. QWuick note, mdina and gozo glass is quite inexpensive and really beautiful.
Thanks for the tips!
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