For two years now, flights of Russian aircraft to Egypt have been banned. Russians feel left out and are trying to find alternative routes to resorts on the beloved Red Sea. These attempts are not unsuccessful, there are several options for how self rest in Egypt, and on the usual package tours.
Is it possible to buy a ticket to Egypt
Flight ban in Egypt continues to operate and is not going to be canceled in the near future. The most optimistic forecasts indicate the resumption of flights to mid 2019 and that's not in resort area, and in Cairo. We are not talking about tourist charters at all yet.
Immediately after the ban on the sale of tours in Russia, the most devoted fans of Egyptian beach holidays thoroughly broke the Internet quickly found several options. This is the purchase of tours through tour operators of the near abroad- Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia and Kazakhstan. For their part, the enterprising travel agencies of the former fraternal republics very quickly turned to Russian tourist and organized a convenient online sale of tours to Egypt.
Where and how to book a tour
Of course, not everyone works with Russians. According to reviews, the most convenient interaction algorithm is offered Belarusian operators Travelhouse, Malibu Travel, Belarusian branch of TEZ-Tour. Departure of charters is possible not only from Minsk, but also from Mogilev, Vitebsk or Gomel, which is a little cheaper.
Travelhouse even offers in Minsk a free transfer from the railway station to the airport for families or organized groups of 4 or more people. All operators work in much the same way:
- the first step is the selection of the tour;
- the second is the execution of the contract, which is also carried out via the Internet;
- further - payment;
- and the last - obtaining documents.
At the same time, a manager works with you, who takes into account your wishes for the hotel, the level of rest and prices.
To purchase a ticket from Belarusian tour operators, it is enough to make an online application and pay for the tour in Russian rubles directly on the website of the selected company.
You can also transfer money through a bank account. After receiving the required amount in a couple of days, the tour operator sends you everything Required documents. As for the cost of such a tour, today it can be bought for 500-600 dollars.
Similarly, they work Ukrainian tour operators, also happy to serve the Russians. Departure from Kiev, Odessa or Kharkov is possible.
Add the cost of the trip to Minsk (Kiev, Odessa, Mogilev, and so on) and back, and you will get the amount that a trip to Egypt will cost you (excluding money for personal spending on vacation). Of course, this option to get to Egypt is more suitable for residents of the European part of Russia. For those who live beyond the Urals, this will result in a lot of money.
And here comes to the rescue Kazakhstan with departure from Almaty or Astana. Vouchers are offered not only by local tour operators. The tour can be bought, for example, through the Kazakhstani branch of "Biblio-Globus".
When buying tours in neighboring countries, think about medical insurance. It is not very convenient to receive reimbursement of expenses in a foreign state (Belarus or Ukraine). It is better to arrange it at home, without being too lazy to look into the nearest insurance company.
Independent holidays in Egypt
planning independent travel to the Red Sea, keep in mind that you won’t be able to relax there cheaply. Regular flights are more expensive, and in some cases you will have to travel by land.
There is an option to fly to Egypt from Moscow. The flight ban affected only Russian airliners. Egyptian Airlines (Egypt Air) both flew from Cairo to Moscow and back, and fly. And now they are even thinking about changing the flight schedule in the direction of increasing the number of flights. From Cairo, any resort can be reached by domestic flight.
For example, a flight to Sharm el-Sheikh will cost $35, it is better to buy tickets on the website egyptair.com, here they are the cheapest.
It is possible to choose:
- in Georgia (Tbilisi);
- Turkey (Istanbul);
- Israel (Tel Aviv - Eilat).
Numerous online services for finding air tickets will help you not only choose the most convenient route, but also show you the best deals using the discount calendar. cheap options.
Road through Turkey
Planes fly from Russia to Istanbul:
- Pegasus- from Samara, Omsk, Krasnodar, Mineralnye Vody, Volgograd;
- Turkish Airlines- from Moscow, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Kazan and other large cities.
In Istanbul, there is a transfer (without baggage claim). Now it's the most cheap way get to Hurghada through another country. Flying the same route to Sharm el-Sheikh will cost more. Tickets can be found on the websites of carriers. If the flight is planned not from Moscow, then it is better to look at the routes to Istanbul and further to the desired resort separately.
Turkish Airlines offers a Moscow-Istanbul-Sharm el-Sheikh flight at a cost of about $320 round trip. From other cities - the price is about 400 dollars.
To Egypt - via Israel
This is another (not the easiest) option to fly to the resorts of Egypt on your own. And the goal may not necessarily be the notorious Sharm el-Sheikh, but, for example, a lively and democratic Dahab, filled with companies of surfers and freedivers.
Considering Israel as a transit point, it should be taken into account that such a route to Egypt will be much more expensive than other options.
There are regular flights to Tel Aviv from Moscow. Next, you need to take a bus that shakes through the desert to Eilat for 6 hours. The second option is to transfer at the airport to domestic flight to Eilat. It is a city on the border with Egypt. Crossing the border on the ground, you find yourself in Taba. Here, too, there is the sea and hotels from where you can order a transfer to the resort where you plan to relax.
At the land border with Israel, Egypt does not issue full-fledged visas, but only puts a Sinai stamp allowing it to stay in the country for 15 days.
It is better to come to Eilat during the day, taxi prices at this time are one third lower than in the evening or at night. You can guess and get on the bus, which every day at 15.00 goes from the border to Sharm el-Sheikh and it costs several times cheaper.
How to get to Egypt through Georgia
Options to get to Egypt through Georgia two - buy a ready-made tour from Georgian tour operators or fly connecting flights through Tbilisi. Interaction when buying a ticket is similar to what happens with Belarusians or Ukrainians. You can just buy a ticket to Tbilisi and from there Turkish or Egyptian airlines can get to any resort in Egypt.
If there is Schengen visa, you can fly through Europe. Relatively inexpensive, this is done through Germany or Italy. Greatly reduces prices and the Greek airline Aegean airlines.
There were a lot of questions about how we got from Russia to Hurghada, how much it costs, what about visas, etc. So I decided to write a separate post with answers.
01. The idea to look at Egypt without the Russians appeared a long time ago, but somehow it didn’t work out, then Dima had a job, then I had to urgently leave.
02. Having received another virtual pendel from Angelina, we decided: it's time. And we bought tickets. I won't say through which site, I don't remember. There are a great many of them: airsales, skyscanner, online tickets - choose any one, everything is one. How to get there? The best option is from Moscow. You can buy two round-trip tickets for two for 47,000 rubles. You will say “mamma mia, well, the prices, the three of us used to rest in the top five for that kind of money for a week,” and I will plunge into the old days with you.
03. Departure from Vnukovo, planes from Chelyabinsk land at Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo. After weighing all the pros and cons, we decided to fly from neighboring Yekaterinburg. The price of tickets from there was about 70 thousand rubles. More expensive, but with the road to the capital and a taxi, it would have cost about the same, plus we didn’t want to bother with suitcases.
04. The flight is not direct, there is a transfer in Istanbul. At the same time, you need to pick up luggage only in Hurghada, which personally pleased me very much. If I had a Schengen visa, we could fly through Europe. Nice prices were with a connection in Riga. But I, as Dima put it, “loshara”, and we will see Riga another time.
05. Two airlines fly to Hurghada from Russia: Pegasus and Turkish Airlines. The second tickets for our dates were much cheaper. The docking in Turkey was unrealistically long, we decided not to marinate at the airport, but to go see the city. The best part is, when the transfer is so long, the Turks provide a free hotel room. This is not always talked about, but there is such a bonus. Before passport control, we approached the guys who were sitting at the counter with the inscription "Turkish airlines", they explained the further algorithm to us. And then they took me to a hotel.
06. Now about hotels. There are a huge number of different services through which you can choose and book your accommodation: booking, island, hotellook and many others. Who is more comfortable. But it's important not to get caught. For example, I almost sent us to a hotel full of Chinese. madam_shazly insisted on Bel Air Azure Resort, which makes me very happy. Therefore, before booking, I highly recommend that you carefully study her blog. By the way, she had a post about how to get to Egypt. By the way, everything related to excursions is also better to learn from Angelina, she is special in this.
you asked about nightlife at the hotel, to be honest, given the rich program, we live in the mode of European pensioners, and then, it seems to me, they turn the heat on for us too. Animators invited to evening shows and discos, but we never went.
07. Many Russian hotels have closed, now the main vacationers are Europeans. And, you know, there's a certain beauty in that. It’s not about the neighborhood, to be honest, I’m already tired of the Deutsches making big eyes and asking “Rusish?”. In the service itself and the approach. They asked about the number of vacationing Arabs, we did not see them. Again, it all depends on the hotel.
08. Hotels are not completely filled, at best, by 70 percent. In general, walking around Hurghada, it seems as if the global morning has come, and everyone has gone to rest. Prices, of course, vary greatly. If we consider the option with half board (breakfast and dinner), you can generally find the option of thousands for 12-15 per week. Our all-inclusive hotel for our dates cost around 30,000. The price of a visa is 25 bucks per adult (I don’t know about children), they get it on arrival before passport control.
I think I answered all your questions, if you have more, ask in the comments.
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With the catastrophic devaluation of the national currency, vacations abroad have become a pipe dream for many. If earlier almost everyone could afford a third-rate Turkish or Egyptian hotel, today one would have to collect money for a week of rest for a whole year. However, for those who seek, there are always interesting opportunities. In this article, we will look at the most common methods of how to travel abroad for free.
At the same time, we will immediately make a reservation: “free” means reducing costs to the minimum achievable level. In some ways, you still have to have some money.
Hospitable hosts and couchsurfing
The most common way to live abroad for free is (you will laugh) to find people who will put you up for free at home. It sounds funny, but in practice it is quite real. Coaching sites allow you to find hospitable hosts around the world. You simply select suitable housing on the site and call up the author of the ad. Of course, there are a number of subjective factors: one young girl will be taken in to live much more willingly than a company of five people or a family with children. However, you can find literally fabulous options: you will live for free in conditions that would cost hundreds of dollars a day. And sometimes you can ask for free food.
Housing exchange: you come to me, I come to you
Another interesting way is a vacation home exchange. You go to the apartment of a foreign friend, while he comes to you. It is clear that for this method you need to live in places that are at least somewhat attractive to tourists. However, there is a demand for the most unusual places Therefore, you should never give up on an idea without trying it. Perhaps somewhere in Italy or Spain there is a traveler who would not mind exchanging apartments with you ...
Sponsor for the trip
For girls, a trip abroad with a sponsor is very interesting. The obvious advantage is that in all the methods listed in this article, you need to get abroad for your own money. But the ticket price is almost half the cost of the entire holiday. In the case of a sponsor, you go on vacation as if your young man is lucky to have a rest. And you don't pay for travel, lodging, or food. In addition, often sponsors do not skimp on travel and offer to go to good places where tickets are quite inexpensive. Therefore, for students, as well as girls with modest earnings, this is a great chance to see the world and visit the luxury that she could never afford.
At the same time, a trip with a sponsor is always an opportunity to meet an interesting person and get to know him better. Of course, there are no guarantees that the journey will lead to the development of any relationship. However, the atmosphere of an overseas resort and the accompanying environment do their job. Therefore, many beautiful love stories began with such trips abroad.
With regard to safety, an important advantage is the opportunity to get to know the sponsor of the trip before the start. After talking and getting to know a person, you can determine whether you are ready to trust him and go on vacation with him.
There is another option - a trip to visit the sponsor. If the sponsor is not a compatriot, but a foreigner, you can get to know him on the Internet and arrange a visit. He can buy a plane ticket, meet you at the airport and provide all the necessary conditions. This option is more risky, but many brave tourists travel like that.
Labor leave
In conclusion - the option of "combined rest". You can travel abroad by agreeing to work for housing. On the Internet, you can find many options for such trips: people who need help with the housework or performing any seasonal work invite tourists. You do not do too much hard work, and you have a lot of time for hiking around the area. Not only do you not spend money on housing, but you can also earn some extra money if the amount of work turns out to be more. Many hosts also take care of their guests and provide not only accommodation but also food.
Tourists, like almost everything in this world, can be classified. And even split into types and subspecies. Then it turns out that among them there are many people who are terrified of flying. But they love to travel. And before such an aerophobic tourist, the question arises - where, in fact, to go. And on what.
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Tourists, like almost everything in this world, can be classified. And even split into types and subspecies. Then it turns out that among them there are many people who are terrified of flying. But they love to travel. And before such an aerophobic tourist there is a difficult question - where, in fact, to go. And on what.
There are options, of course. But we will not talk about car tourism here, just as we will not talk about bus tours. And even more so, we will not talk about tourism on foot. We will tell you where you can go abroad by train. And, in fact, you can go to almost any corner of Europe and Asia (Kim Jong Il traveled to us on his armored train). There would be time.
The first thing that comes to mind is, of course, Crimea. It seems that there is already a foreign country and the sea. But only lazy people don't know about Crimea. In the meantime, there are other places.
Bulgaria
How to get there
Two trains leave daily for Sofia - No. 382 at 19.20 and No. 3 at 21.34. Travel time is a little more than two days - about 58 hours.
What to do
Sofia itself is quite an interesting city. A lot here will remind you of the times when Bulgaria was considered the 16th republic of the USSR - both architecture and people. A lot of people speak Russian, and they treat Russians well.
And then everything depends on your imagination - you can order excursions to the ancient Bulgarian monasteries, which for the most part are located in an amazing beautiful places, among mountains and forests, and get where you need either by car or by bus. You can choose your own ski resort.
And you can go to the sea. Bulgaria is not Siberia, and it takes less than a day to get from one end of the country to the other. There are three main resorts on the coast - Albena, Golden Sands and sunny Beach.
Golden Sands is perhaps the most respectable resort. There are the most good five-star hotels and there are the most high prices. Albena is a little more democratic, but even there almost all even three-star hotels are decent. For those who like to remember the past, there are hotels and two-star hotels - they are not much different from typical Soviet boarding houses of the 70s and 80s. But also extremely cheap. The beaches there are sandy, the entrance to the sea is convenient, and the sea itself is clean.
By the way, if you go from Sofia to Albena or Peski, it is worth spending a day and stopping by on the way to ancient capital Bulgaria under the name of Veliko Tarnovo. The city is very beautiful, located in the mountains, and below, visible from almost everywhere, a river flows. Here, by the way, there used to be the dacha of Zhivkov, the last Secretary General of Bulgaria. And the party elite, as you know, bad places did not choose to rest. There are many hotels in Tarnovo, most of them are inexpensive, but very comfortable. Restaurants are also inexpensive here - dinner for two with all the delights of local cuisine (it is necessary to write a separate chapter about it) and alcohol will cost about 20 dollars.
And finally, Sunny Beach. It is located closest to Sofia and is today almost the most developing resort in the country. The prices here are the lowest, there are many hotels to choose from for every budget and taste, the beaches are sandy. For those who like to live not in hotels, we can recommend going to the nearby ancient city Nessebar - you can easily rent a house there cheaper than in the Crimea, with all the amenities. Yes, and the sea there is the same - only on the other side.
In general, Bulgaria is almost an ideal option for an inexpensive holiday without flights.
Germany
How to get thereTwo trains depart daily to Cologne - No. 11 at 22-15 and No. 249 at 18.19. Travel time - 37 hours. From there, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8.38, train number 13 leaves for Berlin. Another Berlin train number 247 leaves the station on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 13.30. Travel time - a little more than a day - about 28 hours.
What to do
In Cologne itself, by and large, there are two attractions. This is the cathedral of the same name, which is located next to the station, and the Cologne Carnival, which takes place here annually in the second half of February. Then a lot of tourists from all over the world come to the city and hotels need to be booked in advance.
But in general, few people go to Cologne. The local station is a huge connecting terminal, and from here you can go to any city in Germany, as well as almost any city in Europe. One of the most popular routes is Moscow - Cologne - Paris. Just a few hours after the arrival of the Moscow train to Cologne (you will have time for both the cathedral and the beer), the train leaves for Paris in the evening, where you will arrive early in the morning. In other words, Cologne should be considered as a transshipment route on the way by train to Europe. Well, where you want to go is up to you.
From Berlin, of course, there are also trains to Europe. But it’s stupid to go there in transit (especially since it’s more convenient to get to Paris through Cologne). You have to go there just to see the city. Moreover, Berlin is now called almost the most fashionable and modern city in Europe. Architecture of new styles and trends, many progressive clubs, etc. In a word, this is a metropolis for a new generation. Or, as they say in fashion magazines, this is the mainstream of the youth movement. But, of course, that other generations have something to do here. Especially if we remember our history. Also, by the way, there is almost the best zoo in all of Europe.
Finland
How to get thereEvery day, two trains depart from Helsinki - No. 31 at 17.42 and No. 32 at 22.50. Travel time is a little less than 14 hours.
What to do
The city itself is small but pretty. As someone said about Finland, everything there is as it should be with us, but it is unlikely to be. With such an idea, Helsinki in particular and Finland in general should be treated. There are no special attractions here, but it’s nice to just wander around, go to a restaurant and taste old Russian cuisine. But on the other hand, when you get to Helsinki, you can take, for example, a ferry and go to Stockholm. In fact, there are many places to go on cruise or ferry boats from Helsinki. But it is desirable to plan all this in Moscow.
Also in Moscow, you can pre-order a small house on the lakes. Such a pleasure is worth $500 for a house for 4 for a week. And then you find yourself in a pristine forest, with many mushrooms and berries (in summer, of course), surrounded by a network of lakes with crystal clean water and lots of fish. Plus, the kit for the house, as a rule, includes a sauna and powerboat. The only problem - except for berries, mushrooms and fish - that is, pasture food - food is not provided in such houses. And you have to take everything with you. For example, in a rented car.
Croatia
How to get thereOn Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 20.30, train number 15 leaves. Another train number 205 leaves for Zagreb at 7.10 on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Travel time is two days.
What to do
Zagreb itself is often referred to as little Vienna for its resemblance to the capital of Austria. And that's right. It is worth spending at least a day there to see all the sights. Well, then - just a few hours away are all famous resorts Croatia, and there is only a question of choice - where to go. You can, by the way, relax for a week in Croatia, go to Montenegro for the second week, since it’s nearby and, fortunately, there are also trains from Belgrade to Moscow.
Montenegro
How to get there
From to Belgrade, two trains depart daily - No. 15 at 20.30 and No. 344 at 8.20. Travel time is two days.
What to do
If our tourists have long actively mastered Croatia, then Montenegro is still an unknown place for them. And in vain - because it is, without any exaggeration, one of the best places in general in the world. Here is the cleanest water in the Mediterranean - it is so transparent that the bottom is visible even at a depth of 50 meters. There are magnificent beaches and mountains, here is the second largest canyon in the world on the Tara River, which is a national park, there is a beautiful Skadar Lake, surrounded by ancient monasteries. In short, there is everything you need to relax. And, most importantly, it is still relatively cheap here.
Austria
How to get thereFrom to Vienna, train number 202 leaves daily at 21.40. And on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, there is another train number 21 - departure at 23.40. Travel time is just over 30 hours.
What to do
About Vienna, you can write a separate book, and more than one. One has only to say, no matter how trite it sounds, that this is one of the most beautiful capitals in Europe. With a lot of sights, a lot of cultural events, and simply this is the city that you must see at least once in your life if you want to feel involved in world history and culture. Well, after that you can go to ski resorts- there are more of them than there are casinos in Moscow.
Slovakia
How to get thereTwo trains depart daily from Bratislava - No. 21 at 23.40 and No. 705 at 19.50. Travel time - 33 hours.
What to do
Bratislava is a small city, but very picturesque, stretching along two sides of the Danube. In general, you should go to Slovakia either to ski resorts - here, if there are good slopes, it is more or less cheap, or go for treatment - almost all Slovak resorts are one way or another focused on medicine. But the country itself is beautiful - most of it is located in the mountains, and the views here are breathtaking. And since the tourism industry began to actively develop here a few years ago, there have been no problems with the service.
Hungary
How to get thereTwo trains leave daily for Budapest - No. 15 at 20.30 and No. 16 at 18.25. Travel time is a little less than 40 hours.
What to do
Budapest is one of those few cities in the world that you fall in love with right away. And forever, you just have to visit there. Moreover, the views here are for every taste - on the right bank of the Danube, the city soars up, drowning in forests, and left side city, flat, lies in front of you at a glance. The Danube with its openwork bridges lies in the palm of your hand. In a word, Budapest is such a self-sufficient city that there is no need to go anywhere else besides it. You can easily spend a week there and not get bored. But even in this case, there are places in Hungary. Like, for example, the largest lake in Central Europe, the name of which was heard by almost everyone. Balaton is his name. And it completely replaces a vacation by the sea. In addition, Hungary occupies one of the first places in the world in terms of the number of explored and used thermal springs. medicinal waters- there are more than a hundred balneological resorts. In a word, there are a lot of options for recreation here.
Romania
How to get thereEvery day two trains leave for Bucharest - No. 3 at 23.34 and No. 382 at 7.39. Drive for almost two days.
What to do
In fact, it is difficult to ask such a question in Romania. If only because there is Mountain peaks Carpathians, and the majestic Danube with its untouched nature, And Black Sea beaches. Here you can ride skiing and lie on the beaches, here you can wander around Bucharest for days with its unique Franco-Romanian style of architecture, or you can go to the ancient Transylvanian cities. Where you will certainly be reminded of Dracula. Instead of blood, it is better to drink very good local wine. Here, in Romania, Byzantine style and Orthodox monasteries of northern Moldavia and Bukovina are mixed. Western Romania looks like a surviving fragment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and, for example, in Constanta, the hand of both the Romans and Ottoman Empire. In short, Romania is like a kaleidoscope.
Czech
How to get thereTwo trains leave daily for Prague - No. 21 at 23.40 and No. 209 at 22.18. Travel time is just over 30 hours.
What to do
Thousands of guidebooks have been written about Prague, and all of them are similar in one thing - you should visit it at least once in your life. Nowhere else in the world will you sit in a beer house located in a 13th century building, nowhere else is there such a combination of undestroyed antiquity and rhythm. modern city. But in addition to Prague in the Czech Republic there are also ancient castles, and medical resorts(Karlovy Vary has become a Russian health resort for so long), and unique cuisine and ... In a word, read Hasek again - everything is said about the Czechs.
China
How to get thereThere are four trains to Beijing with. On Tuesdays #4 leaves at 21.57, on Wednesdays #3 leaves at 7.40, on Fridays #20 at 23.53 and on Saturdays #19 leaves at 22.50. Travel time - from 131 to 144 hours.
What to do
At first, you will look out the window for almost a week - China, as you know, is not close to us. And after such a journey, you will rest for a few more days. But further - if you have survived such a road, then you can take another train and head, for example, to the coast - this will be the only opportunity for you to see sea world South-East Asia without using an airplane. Look there, believe me, there is something to see - the beaches of China are not much different from Thailand or Bali. And the rest - China is a country with such an ancient and powerful culture that even a few years will not be enough for a complete inspection. Although in itself a trip to China by train is already exotic.
How to travel for free: For this you need a pillow - in a dream you can travel around the world for free and even fly to the moon.
For other cases, you will need money while traveling.
I continue a series of articles addressed to the progressive class independent travelers started in this one:
To begin with, a couple of charts that you yourself can make by going to one of the “currency converter” sites
Playing with the ratios of different national currencies to the ruble, you can notice the binding of a certain region or country to the dollar or euro.
As you can see, the dollar has more influence in the world. Approximation of the national currency to the euro is noticeable only in Europe. Yes, there are still national currencies in Europe: Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Albania….
What money to take with you on a trip
If you are going abroad, forget about rubles. Well, unless on a trip to Belarus, it will come in handy for you.
If you are going to spend Christmas or New Year in the Czech Republic or Hungary - take the euro with you
And if your path lies in countries other than Europe, then only the dollar
I do not argue that the ruble is accepted in exchange offices in Thailand, but if you did not skip math at school and know how to solve fractions, you will see the advantages of home-made dollar with subsequent exchange for baht in comparison with the direct exchange of rubles in the country of smiles - there will be no time for smiles
Card payments and ATMs
Only cash + cards linked to foreign currency accounts (in euros or dollars)!
No ruble cards
Firstly, you can’t guess whether your bank will be able to celebrate its next birthday, simply speaking, no one will tell you anything about its health
Secondly, having rubles on the card, you lose their dollar equivalent every day the national currency falls. In addition, you will lose abroad on conversion at the bank’s rate - nowadays banks include more points with a reserve in their exchange rate differences between Sell / Buy dollar (euro) / ruble - all this if you have a ruble card account
Thirdly, you will lose on withdrawing money through an ATM. In the case of Thailand, both the Thais - the owners of the ATM, and the Russian bank - where your money is
Important addition and correction of this paragraph:
Cards linked to an account in dollars or euros allow you to save on the dollar (euro) / national currency exchange rate
A fresh example from today's Alfa Bank statement, Euro account:
Payment of expenses at the hotel MADINAT JUMEIRAH DUBAI: 1040 Dirham => deducted from the account 226.81 € => Exchange rate 4,5853
We look at the currency converter: http://www.oanda.com/lang/ru/currency/converter/
The cash exchange rate in Dubai is 4.46264 (in the parameters I set the interbank rate of 5%)
Having set a typical interbank + 3% for the converter, I get the rate 4.55659 and for an ATM (+ 2%) 4.60356
Currency exchange - only not the airport or the hotel
The worst exchange rate for your dollars or euros will be offered to you at the airport or at the hotel.
Wow - the best exchange rate in Sri Lanka will be in jewelry stores, and in the capital of Burundi - Bujumbura in the construction market.
Based on this, before the proposed trip, find out the places of the best exchange of your money
Also check in exchange offices - is there a commission for the exchange operation?
Overhead, minimization
It's time to count the money. If earlier it was possible to make mistakes, now these mistakes are costly.
When preparing for a trip, carefully study the conditions of the reservation. Refuse additional fees - all kinds of insurance, fees for paying for air tickets credit card, additional expenses for breakfasts in hotels (there are also free breakfasts, as well as a free airport transfer), additional personal belongings in the form of an additional driver or GPS when
Trade anytime, anywhere
Bargain from the moment you get off the plane. Trade even if a price tag is attached to the subject of bargaining. Use the acting skills that any enlightened person has: gesture, leave, return, appeal to the audience ... but do not overact, otherwise you can get into trouble. That is, feel the enemy, and the seller - he is your opponent, the enemy with whom you need to play a draw - neither you nor me. Otherwise, again, you can get in trouble. If the enemy defeated you, then you are a sucker in his eyes and will remain forever
Are there cheap countries in the world?
Of course there is. Going to Thailand - look to the side. If you are going to Brazil, be aware that
