Coming from USA

[Suwarin]

Re: Re: Checklist for WOA

Originally posted by Warthog
@Suwarin: So you really have computers and the Internet in Europe too?!?! I don't believe it!

Yeah we were able to get third world support from the US.....
Otherwise no running water, lootings from the vikings and the crusades are really tough....

 

[TheDiabolicSon]

whats the Dollar to Euro coversion rate? Is it roughly 1 to 1? Im hoping it is lol. Im pretty poor

 

[SheisTheDark]

The conversion is changing day to day..but not by much...would say by a few cents..but normally is the Euro 1 to 1 like you said.

However, I think it depends on where you exchange your cash...you might hit an exchange rate. I havent exchanged my money in a long time...so I cant remember where I hit the rate..I think it was in the states...Call your bank and ask them...or call an international air port near you...that might work.. ;-)

 

[Warthog]

Originally posted by SheisTheDark
I wouldnt suggest bringing a credit card here..cause well it aint worth a shit unless you have an ATM feature on it..and you could face service charges...I would bring all yo Dough..to the money exchange and cash those bad boys in! ;-)

Really? Sure, it's cash only at the festival (unless some of the vendors took cards and I jsut missed it). I brought my Visa card with me, and used it all over the place - especially in the town of Wacken. The exchange rate Visa used on the charges to my acct kicked the shit out of any of the money changers - a commission-free 94 cents on the Euro compared to the 97 or so that the exchanges were offering (before commission)! Once I found that out I charged everything I could to the Visa...even if it was 1 Euro for a liter of water at the BP station in Wacken.

It's Traveler's Cheques that were really worthless...nobody in Germany wanted to take those! Was finally able to convince a restaurant manager in Wacken to take mine...after only a little begging and pleading, haha.

Anyhow, it's those fuckin' money exchangers who will really hose you. Those commissions hurt! Bastards!

 

[SheisTheDark]

I dunno, Ive been trying to use my credit card every where for the past friggen 6 months and no one takes it! The only places that do are H&M and the fucking ATM machines here...and of course there is an enormous finance charge on top of it.

As for Wacken, every Venders I went to was strickly cash....I think wacken needs an ATM Machine with in the grounds cause the year before last year I had to walk all the way into town and wait a whole long time for the machine. That sucked...oh well...

 

[Lucretia]

Originally posted by SheisTheDark
I dunno, Ive been trying to use my credit card every where for the past friggen 6 months and no one takes it! The only places that do are H&M and the fucking ATM machines here...and of course there is an enormous finance charge on top of it.

yepps... thats the reason why I use my credit card only for buying stuff in the internet...

 

[SheisTheDark]

Its gross, you would think that a credit card would be welcome any where...but its really not...only in certain places...and still cash is the most welcome

 

[Brat]

some vendors did take credit card because I bought my now EX b/f leathers pants there


hey, stop complaining my exchange rate is 1 dollar to about 0.55 Euro