How to earn Avios points when you pre-order foreign currency from Travelex

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• Ken says:

  28 Mar28 March 08:33

  So I’d be paying at least 2p per Avios compared with high street names.

  Just don’t see any sense in this.

  • Rob says:

    28 Mar28 March 09:51

    Clearly you pay for your own currency then, unlike many of our readers.

    • ken says:

      28 Mar28 March 10:03

      On holiday yes.

      At work, I still wouldn’t do it.

      I know for sure, its not just me.

      And no, its not the same as having a preference for say BA over another airline, after being stuck in USA with Delta in 2010 after Eyjafjallajökull

      • Graham Walsh says:

        28 Mar28 March 13:18

        Agree, even if work are paying, I treat it like my own money. Maybe it’s because its a small company (150 people). Maybe working at multi nationals, you care less?

    • Alan says:

      28 Mar28 March 10:59

      How many will take wads of cash on a business trip though? Would imagine pretty uncommon nowadays given widespread acceptance of plastic.

  • Anthony Edwards says:

    28 Mar28 March 10:37

    Surely the best bit is being able to order it in the morning and pick it up at the airport, saves me wasting my lunch break in a queue.

• Funtime says:

  28 Mar28 March 09:00

  Your link says home delivery is free on orders over £600 not £500.

  Still having your pants down though.

  Surprised you’re pushing this.

  • Shoestring says:

    28 Mar28 March 09:31

    as already mention: if flying on business and you can claim back the cost of your Travelex transaction, hey presto – double whammy on card points & Avios, sod the exchange rate 🙂

    • Shoestring says:

      28 Mar28 March 09:32

      triple whammy if you get HR points on top by collecting at Heathrow 🙂

    • Russ says:

      28 Mar28 March 20:00

      As you said Shoestring you have to be sure you can claim the costs back or be happy to write off the expense. I can’t claim for most of my work travel expenses because I can’t justify working in a hotel room writing when I have a perfectly acceptable office in the UK. Fortunately earning and spending points offsets the costs.

      • Shoestring says:

        28 Mar28 March 20:21

        Also depends on your company. I had years when I was UK based but travelling a lot abroad with hefty foreign expenses that the old corporate Amex didn’t always cover, followed by years living abroad working for the same company when I was also reimbursed in GBP for non-Amex expenses. Never once did some beancounter ask me to justify the exchange rate on the day I was claiming (I guess they could look it up to see I was in the right ballpark). Never once did I falsify my expenses, though I was admittedly very generous with meals & drinks for business purposes. Or they were, I suppose you could see it that way. Good levels of trust.

      • Russ says:

        28 Mar28 March 20:52

        Totally agree *abuse it you lose it*

        Did well out of that, kept coming back for little nibbles of the cake rather than taking huge chunks 🙂

• Bootlace says:

  28 Mar28 March 10:25

  O/T WOW ceased operations flights cancelled……

• Waddle says:

  28 Mar28 March 14:43

  FX-related but very OT
  Are there any places which let you buy cash and pay with the currency of the cash you are acquiring? So if I wanted some CAD, is there somewhere I could order some and then pay in CAD to get it?

  • SimonW says:

    28 Mar28 March 15:01

    Why would you buy CAD if you already had CAD ? sounds like a cash withdrawal

    • Waddle says:

      28 Mar28 March 15:05

      Yes it’s what I meant but I guess I oversold it. Where can I perform a withdrawal of CAD or another currency in London? I know some ATMs give EUR and USD but I haven’t come across any other currencies.

      • John says:

        28 Mar28 March 20:29

        Generally only in the country of origin. Beware of euro ATMs in non euro countries (UK, Czechia, Denmark, Switzerland etc.)

        These tend to be just banknote vending machines that charge you in your card’s currency. There was an Ulster Bank euro ATM at Bishopsgate London which genuinely dispensed euros but that was dismantled.

  • Roy says:

    28 Mar28 March 20:31

    I believe some of the multi-currency ATMs allow you to do that, but you’re unlikely to find ATMs dispensing much other than EUR or maybe USD.

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