FairFX card

cbmaxyz

Does anyone know if I can load a FairFX pre-paid card with both US dollars (for an upcoming trip to the US) and pounds (to pay for Ryanair flights fee-free), or do I need separate cards?

stilltheone

No, you can't do that.

Just get a Global use card, such as Travelex Cash Passport Globe ordered via TopCashBack or Quidco if you have an existing account(with Quidco).

dobby99

Take care! Advice on this site is to use Farifx Prepaid but when I tried this a couple of weeks ago they would only process the transaction if I selected "Standard Mastercard" option. They then charged me the usual fee & have refused to refund it!!

Bob_the_Saver

dobby99 wrote: »

Take care! Advice on this site is to use Farifx Prepaid but when I tried this a couple of weeks ago they would only process the transaction if I selected "Standard Mastercard" option. They then charged me the usual fee & have refused to refund it!!

Where on the site do they offer any other card other than a £, $ or euro pre-paid card? and if you couldn't find what you wanted why did you go ahead?

stilltheone

What silly dobby has neglected to add, is that he/she is referring to R Y A N A I R.

Nothing to do with the FairFx Anywhere card itself.

Bob_the_Saver

stilltheone wrote: »

What silly dobby has neglected to add, is that he/she is referring to R Y A N A I R.

Nothing to do with the FairFx Anywhere card itself.

Surely not, the Ryanair site gives you your total all the way
through the booking process, nobody could make that mistake!

stilltheone

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

Surely not, the Ryanair site gives you your total all the way
through the booking process, nobody could make that mistake!

The claim was that the booking failed when PrePaid Mastercard was chosen, so they chose Standard Mastercard and went ahead with the booking...and is now complaining about the charge levied.

Of course, Ryanair is not keen on giving the money back.

Bob_the_Saver

stilltheone wrote: »

The claim was that the booking failed when PrePaid Mastercard was chosen, so they chose Standard Mastercard and went ahead with the booking...and is now complaining about the charge levied.

Of course, Ryanair is not keen on giving the money back.

Ah well, they say there's one born every minute.

cannyscot_2

To the original q -yes Fairfx is all seperate currencies. We have a dollar card and then an anywhere card for Ryanair transactions. They both work fantastically well. I have never had a problem with booking Ryanair flights with it -I have booked about 15 times but I have not used it since March so they could have made it difficult since then.

Bob_the_Saver

cannyscot wrote: »

To the original q -yes Fairfx is all seperate currencies. We have a dollar card and then an anywhere card for Ryanair transactions. They both work fantastically well. I have never had a problem with booking Ryanair flights with it -I have booked about 15 times but I have not used it since March so they could have made it difficult since then.

I've had no problems, booked several in the last couple of weeks.