spending money in new york

swatrfc

Hi just a quick question I'm going to new York at the end of the month will it be better to take cash or apply for the Halifax clarity card and use that, opinions would be great. Thanks

Voyager2002

Neither.

As the song says, "Everything's free in America".

visidigi

If you can I would apply for a Clarity card by default, never travel without mine and the fact you can notify them online which countries you will be in and where to reducing the risk of the card being blocked is excellent imo (Barclaycard should take note...you suck at this).

PurplePow

visidigi wrote: »

If you can I would apply for a Clarity card by default, never travel without mine and the fact you can notify them online which countries you will be in and where to reducing the risk of the card being blocked is excellent imo (Barclaycard should take note...you suck at this).

Where can you do this for the Clarity card?? :eek: I always ring up!

Rambosmum

We went to New York in Feb this year. We took £600 cash and spent £400 on a credit card.

I'd always take some cash, for street vendors, small purchases, taxi's etc as even though taxi's take cards it's more hassle.

Most places take cards - we didn't encounter anywhere that didn't but one or two wanted to see extra ID.

PeacefulWaters

Clarity Card every time.

An airport ATM may charge you around $3 for a cash withdrawal (taxi and tip money) but the exchange rate will be far better than changing cash before travel.

If you need further cash when you're there TD Bank were free for ATM withdrawals 18 months ago. Not heard of that changing. But you'll be able to do 90% of your spending by card.

kizkiz

We went in November and used the Clarity card. As others have said, everywhere accepted it, no hassle, and no fees!

Delree

I was there last May and used the Clarity for everything, cash withdrawls to paying hotels and bar tabs, easy peasy you can't go wrong.

Alisha2008

I'm going in June but don't really want to have another credit card (I have too many!), I was planning to use my NW which is also free for payments , but not on ATMs. I guess I'll take some cash and just use an ATM if I ran out..

callum9999

visidigi wrote: »

If you can I would apply for a Clarity card by default, never travel without mine and the fact you can notify them online which countries you will be in and where to reducing the risk of the card being blocked is excellent imo (Barclaycard should take note...you suck at this).

It's annoying you can only do 1 country at a time though. I'm going to something like a dozen countries this summer, some multiple times, so will have to submit about 15 different web forms for it!

bazard

How many of you going and for how long? I am also travelling at the end of the month with wife and two kids, thought about £1000 + my Clarity card