Timeline for Where should it cost less to convert Thai Baht to Lao Kip?
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| Sep 18, 2023 at 14:48 | answer | added | user138870 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 8, 2023 at 6:20 | history | edited | lambshaanxy |
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| Feb 8, 2023 at 6:20 | answer | added | lambshaanxy | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 7, 2023 at 16:21 | history | reopened |
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| Jan 15, 2023 at 11:45 | comment | added | jcaron | I’m voting to reopen, because while giving specific locations to perform the operation is clearly out of scope, giving advice on possible strategies (as evidenced by the comments above, especially hippietrail’s) definitely is. | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 11:43 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jan 15, 2023 at 11:04 | comment | added | jcaron | In some cases, counterintuitively, it may be cheaper to convert from local currency to USD in the first country, then USD to the second local currency in the second country. Also if you have a bank account in either currency (especially the first one) it may sometimes be cheaper to use that. But YMMV a lot. | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 9:28 | comment | added | hippietrail | Also, exchanging money, especially for a decent rate has historically been a pain in Thailand, though this may be changing. It used to be that a chain called SuperRich was the only one with great rates, but only in Bangkok. SuperRich in other locations have the best local rates but worse than Bangkok. SuperRich at airports had the best rates in the airport but worse than other SuperRich. Many places had no money exchange places and in those cases you would go to the gold shops. I'm told this has changed but on my recent visits I used bank card and Aeon ATMs. I changed my Malay Ringit in Sadao. | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 9:23 | comment | added | hippietrail | My rules of thumb is you always get the best exchange rate in the poorer / less developed country. Also the currency of a poorer / less developed country may be seen as a "minor" currency by its neighbours, meaning you can exchange it easily at the border inside the neighbour but increasingly difficult to impossible the further you get away from the border and into the neighbour country. The reverse will not be true. Thus you get better rates in Laos. It's easy to exchange in Laos. In Thailand it's easy to exchange kip only at/very close to the border. | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 8:04 | history | closed | Willeke♦ | Opinion-based | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 8:03 | comment | added | Willeke♦ | As Stack Exchange sites we do not supply best place to do something answers, as it depends on too many factors and chances too often. | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 7:35 | comment | added | Weather Vane | An airport is usually the most expensive place to buy anything (because of the convenience, the effort a customer must make to find an alternative). | |
| S Jan 15, 2023 at 6:14 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jan 15, 2023 at 6:14 | history | asked | Mashekino | CC BY-SA 4.0 |