Best place to buy Turkish Lira?

tryingtocutback

Is the post office the best place to buy Turkish Lira? (I only need about £200 worth).

Thanks in advance if you can help.

PompeyPete

Buy it cash on arrival. There are plenty of dovis (exchange offices).

[Deleted User]

If you can wait after arriving in Turkey, buy your liras in town, not at the airport or the hotel. Usually bad rates.

stephb34

The post office is probably about the worst place on the high street to buy currency unless you pre order on the internet or want either £500+ or £1000+.

SteveJW

In Turkey at the moment, two nights ago we got 2.89TL to the pound, dropped slightly to 2.87TL to the pound

worried_jim

I am going next month and plan to buy in the resort as I am told it is a better rate.

Sunny_Saver

Am bit peed off. I got an email from MSE today saying that Travelex was having a flash sale at 11am on Wednesday for Turkish Lira. As I wasn't around, I asked OH to buy some.

It doesn't appear as if this was a special rate at all: it was 2.83, which isn't the best rate at all. So rather disappointed that Travelex misinformed MSE and that OH didn't really know what he was doing.

Moomum

Sorry if this is something you already know but we found we got much better prices in Turkey when we used Stirling

stephb34

Sunny_Saver wrote: »

Am bit peed off. I got an email from MSE today saying that Travelex was having a flash sale at 11am on Wednesday for Turkish Lira. As I wasn't around, I asked OH to buy some.

It doesn't appear as if this was a special rate at all: it was 2.83, which isn't the best rate at all. So rather disappointed that Travelex misinformed MSE and that OH didn't really know what he was doing.

2.83 is an excellent rate in the uk where could you get it better and what rate was it?

interstellaflyer

natmid wrote: »

Sorry if this is something you already know but we found we got much better prices in Turkey when we used Stirling

Agreed, no need to buy lira until you get there and we found most places, especially in the big resort areas would take Stirling and Euros and yes they will often do a better deal for stirling.