Same thing happened to me in Queenstown last month ANZ ATM near my hostel swallowed my Wise debit card. The branch was closed for the weekend, so I c...

I lost my Revolut card to a Halkbank ATM in Izmir last month. It sucked it in after a long pause and then shut down. Locals advised me to skip the bra...

While backpacking through Iran, I found that exchanging cash in the city is the way to go. Upon arriving at Mashhad Airport, I took out just enough fr...

Flying solo through Port-au-Prince, I didn't want any unnecessary delays. While normally I'd go straight for a city ATM, this time safety was my prior...

On our recent trip to Lagos, my partner and I tried the airport's currency exchange for quick cash. Big mistake! Exchange rates were slightly better i...

During my budget travels in Myanmar, I always found myself heading to the Aung Mingalar bus station area to exchange currency instead of the airport. ...

When I visited Martinique recently, I found my Wise card wasn't as accepted as I'd hoped, especially at smaller shops and markets in Sainte-Anne. It s...

On a tight budget traveling through Herat, I was hit with crazy charges after accepting ATM conversion without thinking. It felt like an unnecessary c...

In Antalya and Fethiye, I found that cards were accepted at about half the hostels I stayed inbut not always reliably. At the hostel in Kaleiçi, their...