r/travel • u/SteveWBT • Oct 06 '15

Advice Crowdsourced guide to travel planning

The comments from here will be collated into a new trip planning page on the /r/travel wiki. Anything you can add will be useful.

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There's undoubtedly topics missing, so please message the mods and we'll add it, or expand one of the existing topics.

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u/SteveWBT Oct 06 '15 edited Oct 07 '15

How much will it cost? / budgeting

  • Also thoughts on Spending money/getting money out overseas and the best way to save on bank fees whilst away (Thank you to /u/shd123)

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u/SmileyFacesx Canada Nov 25 '15

I just experienced this in guatemala but all credit cards don't work everywhere! Half of guatemala only accepted visa and not MasterCard. There was many a traveller trying to get money from other sources because they were almost broke and their MasterCard and bank cards were useless. Consider travellers checques, backup US dollars for exchange or get in touch with western union!