BuyBack Travel Money USD $ to GBP £ - Best Rates?

brymbo76

Hi,
Am never sure where the best place is to go when I have been abroad and need to exchange my leftover money back into GBP Sterling.

I have just returned back from the USA with $224 US.
I could return them back to bestforeignexchange.com where I originally bought them from but it would cost me £6.22 to return them by using Royal Mail Special Delivery.
Or I could return them back to my branch of the NatWest.
The exchange rates I have just looked at using travelmoney.moneysavingexpert.com/buy-back/
which are currently:
Best Foreign Exchange.com - £135.80 - rate 1.650
NatWest - 125.65 - rate 1.783

What does everyone reading this generally do after you have been away and you have a lot of money leftover?
And what would you advise me to do?
Look forward to your advice.

Kind Regards.

jackieblack

brymbo76 wrote: »

Hi,
Am never sure where the best place is to go when I have been abroad and need to exchange my leftover money back into GBP Sterling.

I have just returned back from the USA with $224 US.
I could return them back to bestforeignexchange.com where I originally bought them from but it would cost me £6.22 to return them by using Royal Mail Special Delivery.
Or I could return them back to my branch of the NatWest.
The exchange rates I have just looked at using travelmoney.moneysavingexpert.com/buy-back/
which are currently:
Best Foreign Exchange.com - £135.80 - rate 1.650
NatWest - 125.65 - rate 1.783

What does everyone reading this generally do after you have been away and you have a lot of money leftover?
And what would you advise me to do?
Look forward to your advice.

Kind Regards.

We don't tend to take so much cash these days as we tend to mostly use fee-free credit cards.
Any cash we do bring home is kept for the next trip.

If you're not planning another trip in the foreseeable future, the best deal to be had is usually by finding a friend/colleague/family member who is, and exchanging at a mutually beneficial rate

Moto2

As above, try to sell it on

A few years ago, I came back from the US with a couple of thousand $ after selling a motorbike I'd bought at the start of the trip.
A notice on the company notice board saw them snapped up quite quickly at a good rate for both parties.

brymbo76

I would prefer to exchange it back to GBP as it would be useful for Christmas.
Not planning another trip to the USA for a long while yet and don't know anyone else planning on going either so would prefer to know which of the two suggestions I made which is best or anywhere else you can recommend I exchange my money back with.
Thank You.

jackieblack

brymbo76 wrote: »

I would prefer to exchange it back to GBP as it would be useful for Christmas.
Not planning another trip to the USA for a long while yet and don't know anyone else planning on going either so would prefer to know which of the two suggestions I made which is best or anywhere else you can recommend I exchange my money back with.
Thank You.

Of those two options I'd personally go with NatWest, for the sake of less than £4 difference I'd rather have the cash in my hand than faff about with the post.