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Currency for a Baltic Cruise?
I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but my husband and I are going on a Baltic cruise in May. I've been doing some research and am seeing conflicting reports on currency. Some people have said that the countries with their own currency will typically take Euros (in the touristy places). Others have said that you can only use the currency of that particular country. Also - what is the best way to get currency? I know they will change it on the ship, but how is the exchange rate? When my husband and I went to Ireland last year, we just used a debit card and ATMs (no credit cards). It was so easy...but I'm thinking this will be a bit more complicated than that! Thanks for your help.
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Re: Currency for a Baltic Cruise?
Only the very touristy places will take other currencies. You'll definitely need local in most places.
When we did a Baltic cruise, we didn't have any problems finding an ATM shortly after we docked. In Tallinn, there was one at a gas station we passed walking into town, and in St.Petersburg they had ATMs in the cruise terminal right outside the immigration checkpoint. If you're booking a private tour in SPB, the tour operators take US cash (we actually had to stop and do the conversion since we wanted to pay in Rubles) and most of the tourist shops we ended up in would take dollars as well.
Also most of the Scandinavian cities will take card just about anywhere.
We actually had a lot of trouble with this when we were on our honeymoon, which left Copenhagen. Of course a lot of places will not tell you till youre ready to pay that they only take cards with a pin (so we assumed they meant debit cards, which we didnt bring at all) or their credit cards have pins. Second of all...you can pay in Euros...but it must be paper euros, no coins, and you'll get your change in the local currency. So when we were in Copenhagen we paid for dinner in all the paper euros we had (cause no one warned us about this) and were paid back in danish kroner. In Oslo, paid in again some paper Euro and got norwegian kroner back. Amsterdam I cant remember having a problem. And I dont remember my mother in law saying anything about this on her baltic cruise, but that was about 6 years ago.
Our lesson, take a debit card to get local currency or ask up front about paying before you decide to do anything. We were pretty upset about this and felt that it was not noted anywhere or told to anyone before eating/going anywhere.
At sea, heading to Lisbon, Portugal