What Currency Barbados?

NiftyDigits

hayls23 wrote: »

WHY?:cool:

Why would you change from your home currency to an unrelated currency, only to change it again to the currency of your destination?
That is the realm of an idiot.

Change once. Either by drawing cash from an ATM with a suitable card or taking your HOME currency with you.

hayls23

niftydigits wrote: »

why would you change from your home currency to a foreign currency, only to change it again to the currency of your destination?
That is the realm of an idiot.

Change once. Either by drawing cash from an atm with a suitable card or taking your home currency with you.

us dollars are the prefferred currency by bajans, tied at 2:1 with the bbd, makes no difference whatsoever except that the exchange rate here is 99% of the time better to buy us dollars than bbd. If u drawer out of atm overthere you get charged commision and rate is worse than here.

NiftyDigits

travellerboy wrote: »

I think you are a little out of date, I visited Barbados just last week. I don't expect you realise that TWO tourists were murdered just 3 weeks ago (P&O Cruisers)

How many people are murdered in Britain? I'm currently in Thailand, do you know how many have met their demise just this year?

Apart from anything else, I think the two tourists involved would be pretty pee'd off to read that they were dead. Perhaps you should check your sources more carefully.

NiftyDigits

hayls23 wrote: »

us dollars are the prefferred currency by bajans, tied at 2:1 with the bbd, makes no difference whatsoever except that the exchange rate here is 99% of the time better to buy us dollars than bbd. If u drawer out of atm overthere you get charged commision and rate is worse than here.

Sorry, but your post is just silly.

No need to purchase currency here at all. Just purchase it with £s when you get there or withdraw it from the ATM with a suitable card. Commission?? That is just nonsense. Used my Metro Bank card and got the full Mastercard/Wholesale rate.
This is a thread straight from the seventies, with the ridiculous advice I'm reading here.

travellerboy

NiftyDigits - maybe you should visit Barbados before giving advice!!

hayls23

travellerboy wrote: »

NiftyDigits - maybe you should visit Barbados before giving advice!!

Ha there are some rude people on here..

This will be my 16th visit in 2 weeks, i am going to get married there, just trying to be helpful, unlike other no-it-alls that think they are right ALL of the time.

LEJC

Having travelled to barbados many times we now take a mixture of barbados dollars and us dollars...

The barbados dollars are handy for use on the bus etc and when you are buying things locally in the shops....the us come in handy for larger purchases,although there are times when you will get a better deal using local currency rather than us currency.....we found this particularly when purchasing things in bridgetown market...things seem to be priced in dollars but the currency of those dollars does seem to change dependant on if there is a cruise ship visiting that day!...items which we asked about on "non cruise" days seemed to be priced in barbados dollars and when a cruise ship in port then the price seemed to flip to us dollars

NiftyDigits

travellerboy wrote: »

NiftyDigits - maybe you should visit Barbados before giving advice!!

I do... It's why I can refute your nonsense.

Seems that you have gone a bit quiet on the "tourist murders three weeks ago".

GlynD

travellerboy wrote: »

NiftyDigits - maybe you should visit Barbados before giving advice!!

I agree. We found most things priced in US$. Nothing in Sterling.

NiftyDigits

LEJC wrote: »

Having travelled to barbados many times we now take a mixture of barbados dollars and us dollars...

The barbados dollars are handy for use on the bus etc and when you are buying things locally in the shops....the us come in handy for larger purchases,although there are times when you will get a better deal using local currency rather than us currency.....we found this particularly when purchasing things in bridgetown market...things seem to be priced in dollars but the currency of those dollars does seem to change dependant on if there is a cruise ship visiting that day!...items which we asked about on "non cruise" days seemed to be priced in barbados dollars and when a cruise ship in port then the price seemed to flip to us dollars

You don't have an ATM card??

Why would you buy currency to take with you at all? The days are long gone where it was not possible to use a card without being charged commissions. Move in to the 21st century.

They charges US$ to the idiots who have US$. You don't get a better price if you pay in US$.