mogs Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 I hope I've posted in the correct place, please forgive me if not.My daughter is going to the UK with her school next week and we was wondering how to change money from euros into sterling, ie. can it be done through a French bank, La Poste or somewhere else?Many thanks for help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Certainly at a main post office, maybe you could order them to come into your local one, if you could they may need a few days notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WendyG Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Always find things like that difficult in France - Post Office, any Bank etc in UK will happily change euros to sterling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Our local airport has flights from the UK, Sweden Norway and sometimes Denmark, all countries outside the euro-zone, yet there is no way of changing cash in the town.Even the Banque de France sends us to Montpellier.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Do you know anyone who might have some sterling laying around to exchange with. You both get the best deal on a rate that way.How much are you talking about ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 [quote user="NormanH"]Our local airport has flights from the UK, Sweden Norway and sometimes Denmark, all countries outside the euro-zone, yet there is no way of changing cash in the town.Even the Banque de France sends us to Montpellier..[/quote] The Banque de France stopped doing this when the euro came in and it is a shame. The Banque de France sent us to La Poste, which is what I suggested in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogs Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 Well we went to La Poste today, and they said they didn't do it so we went to Credit Agricole and they can't either.What on earth do people do if they want to go on holiday to ANY country from France? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 As I said, No banks do it in my town, not even the Banque de France.If I asked at LaPoste (after queuing up 40+ minutes) they would look at me blankly.It has to be the only organisation in France to rival FT (now Orange) in its capacity to raise the blood pressure by sheer bloody-minded incompetence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 [quote user="mogs"]What on earth do people do if they want to go on holiday to ANY country from France?[/quote]Presumably, being a school trip, she's not going on her own so what are the others doing ?Did you get my PM ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mary Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Credit Agricole will order the Sterling in for you, but I think they need quite a bit of notice from what I can remember. When I spoke with Brit-line, they said they can order it into my branch for me but I think it was 10 days, but it may be less, I know I didn't have enough time before I went to the UK.I would try and ask the college or other parent what they are doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 TBH I don't think it's unreasonable for French banks not to hold foreign currency, they too will be at the mercy of the exchange rate.We are used to UK banks and other institutions holding Euros and maybe USD because there is always a demand for them but in France you can never know which particular currency any customer might want , or how much, so buying it in on demand is the only practical solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyinfrance Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Staying near La Fleche a couple of years ago (Sarthe) we asked at 4 or 5 banks before we found one that would do foreign exchange.........our bank (CA) was unable to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogs Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 Thanks ANO I did receive your PM, I haven't replied because we have found a solution, but thanks again for your offer.We've decided to give daughter an English bank card so she can go and draw the cash out, as it happens I am in the UK myself from Friday so will be able to change euros into sterling, then can pay it into the bank for her to withdraw it.I've asked her what others are doing, but so far she doesn't know, lucky for her she has a solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allanb Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 [quote user="WendyG"]Always find things like that difficult in France - Post Office, any Bank etc in UK will happily change euros to sterling.[/quote]But that's the other way round. In order to do that, they don't have to keep a stock of foreign currency; they only have to be willing to buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Glad you're sorted.[quote user="mogs"]lucky for her she has a solution.[/quote]And an opportunity to provide here fellow travellers with £'s - and a rate advantageous to all.Good to get the entrepreneurial spirit going at a young age [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allanb Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 [quote user="AnOther"]Glad you're sorted.[quote user="mogs"]lucky for her she has a solution.[/quote]And an opportunity to provide here fellow travellers with £'s - and a rate advantageous to all.Good to get the entrepreneurial spirit going at a young age.[/quote]But you are depriving bankers of their hard-earned income! How can you bear to do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 At the tunnel (and I daresay other points of departure also) there is a Travelux office which will change money. It's not the cheapest way to do it but it works.Many shops at the UK ports take Euros (as do some big chain stores - M&S for one.) I guess most people now have plastic which they just bung in a machine on arrival in Britain and elsewhere thus it's no longer a service which many want, unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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