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These are our retail exchange rates for cash (and where relevant) Cash Passport Cards — we have no fees for currency conversions, follow this link for more information.

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These are our retail exchange rates for cash (and where relevant) Cash Passport Cards — we have no fees for currency conversions, follow this link for more information.

Foreign Currencies

Foreign Currencies we trade in

Here is a list of the currencies we currently trade - by region. This list does change from time to time and is up to date as of 04/11/09. Whilst we trade in them we cannot guarantee their availability from our wholesaler (or the amounts that they will have), but they will usually have most of these currencies.

We keep at least 20 of them on hand at all times and usually 30-40.

Europe

Czech Koruna, Danish Krone, Euro (see list of participating countries below), Hungarian Forint, Icelandic Krone, Norwegian Krone, Swedish Krona, Swiss Franc, Turkish Lira and United Kingdom Pounds (Includes Scottish and Northern Irish Pounds).

The following countries are currently using the Euro:

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Portugal, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Vatican City. Lithuania is also joining on January 1 2010.

Africa

Egyptian Pounds and South African Rand.

Take small US Dollars for all other African countries. Euros are also favoured in Morocco. 

Australasia

Central Pacific Franc (see below), Fijian Dollars, New Zealand Dollar, Papua New Guinea Kina, Solomon Island Dollars, Tongan Pa'anga, Vanuatu Vatu and Western Samoan Tala.

The Central Pacific Franc is used in French Polynesia (Including Tahiti), New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna.

South and East Asia

Brunei Dollar, Chinese Yuan (sometimes called Renminbi), Hong Kong Dollar, Indian Rupee, Indonesian Rupiah (includes Bali), Japanese Yen, Malaysian Ringgit, Mauritian Rupee, Pakistan Rupee, Philippine Peso, Singapore Dollar, South Korean Won, Sri Lankan Rupee, Taiwanese Dollar, Thai Baht, Turkish Lira and Vietnamese Dong.

 

For other countries small US Dollars are the preferred foreign currency. This includes Cambodia, Laos and Nepal. 

The Americas

Argentine Peso, Bahamas Dollar, Barbados Dollar, Bermuda Dollar, Brazilian Real, Canadian Dollar, Chilean Peso, Mexican Peso and United States Dollars.

 

For other countries small US Dollars are the preferred foreign currency. Peru has it's own currency  - Peruvian Sol - but this cannot be sourced in Australia.

Middle East

Bahraini Dinar, Israeli Shekel, Jordanian Dinar, Omani Rial, Qatari Riyal, Saudi Arabian Riyal, UAE Dirham and Egyptian Pound.

Top Ten Currencies in 2009

To give you an idea of currencies that we have on hand here are our Top Ten selling currencies for this year. We always try to make sure that we have enough of these currencies to cover demand, if we do sell out there will definitely be some more coming in at most a day or two. 

  January February March April May June July August September October November December
1 USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA    
2 Euro New Zealand Euro Euro Euro Euro Euro Euro Euro Euro    
3 New Zealand UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK    
4 United Kingdom Thailand New Zealand Japan Canada Thailand New Zealand New Zealand Thailand Thailand    
5 Japan Euro Thailand New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand Canada Indonesia New Zealand New Zealand    
6 Thailand Japan Japan Thailand Thailand Indonesia Thailand Thailand Indonesia Indonesia    
7 Canada Canada Canada China Indonesia Japan Fiji Canada Fiji Canada    
8 Fiji Hong Kong Hong Kong Indonesia Fiji Canada Indonesia Fiji Japan Fiji    
9 Indonesia Singapore Indonesia Canada Switzerland Hong Kong Japan Hong Kong Hong Kong Japan    
10 Singapore Fiji China Hong Kong Japan Fiji Singapore Japan Canada Hong Kong  

 

 

As you can see there are a lot of the same currencies that come up but there are some seasonal differences which we take into account when setting our stock levels.

This seasonality includes:

  1. European Summer
  2. Canadian Coach touring season 
  3. New Zealand Summer
  4. Japanese Skiing season
  5. Anzac Day (Turkish Lire)
  6. Sporting events (eg Soccer World Cup, Olympics, Bledisloe Cup in Japan)
  7. School groups (ideally we have contact with the group organiser in advance)

 

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The Travelex Currency Exchanges in Brookvale and Wollongong are operated as Franchises by Ian Spight Pty Ltd trading as "The Currency Exchange". The information on this website pertains to our two stores only and does not relate to the stores operated and owned by Travelex Pty Ltd. This includes pricing, products offered and general information.