Travel card for Australia and Far East

Twinsmum2103

In February I am travelling with my two adult daughters to Australia for a month, via Singapore on the way there and Hong Kong on the way back. I am looking for the best way to take money for all three places with a card whereby the three of us can use our pooled finances with a card for each of us. Am very confused. please help

la531983

What you are after is quite specific. Revolut do seem to offer accounts with multiple cards but all will just be in one name it seems.

Bigphil1474

Me and the other half both have Revolut cards - i think they're pretty good. I use it as my main day to day bank card. There's some issues with when you change currency etc. (only do it during the week and not at the weekend), although it doesn't affect purchases. They allow you to buy Australian, Hong Kong, and Singapore Dollars,  so that can be done before you go if the rate is good, or leave it until you are there. You can set a market tracker so it buys when the rate reaches a certain level as well. 

They are easy to use, but even easier to transfer money around. You can do bill splitting as well, and easy to add money from your current account, and send to each other. I'd suggest getting one each. The basic account is sufficient, and comes with a physical card. I think you just pay a few quid for delivery of the card, and there's no more charges after that. All done on a smart phone app, so you'll need some sort of internet connection when using the app, but the card works the same as any card. I think there's a few similar ones out there as well.

twopenny

What you are looking at I guess is a joint account between the 3 of you. That would be the way to get cards with different names.

The key is to find those with low transaction fees for foreign travel and make enquiries. If they will do a joint account for family rather than partners.

Remember to find out how long it will take to open. With branches closing on banks people are transfering and as I found, this can stuff up the waiting time for transfer.

And not sure which way round but with card payments it's cheaper to pay in local currency or your currency, one or the other. I'm sure google will know