Property News · January 30, 2016

Travel money: tips for teenagers planning a trip abroad this year


Now is the time for young people and their parents to explore the range of debit and pre-paid cards on offerLike hundreds of school leavers, my 17-year-old daughter and a group of friends are planning an Interrail trip visiting various European countries during their post-A-level summer holidays.They are a pretty sensible bunch, competent enough to make their own travel arrangements, plot their route and book hostels for stops in Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Croatia and Budapest. But when it comes to travel money and how they are going to exchange their hard-saved sterling and access the four currencies they will need en route (euro, Czech koruna, Croatian kuna and Hungarian forint), not to mention keeping their cash and plastic cards safe, they are not quite so savvy. The parents’ nightmare vision of their child stranded abroad with no money when their cash and/or cards get lost or stolen looms large. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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