Monzo / Mondo / Revolut banking

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Tomo187

Revolut has literally revolutionised my holidays by saving me a decent amount of money. I reckon I save 10-12% over using a normal current account card abroad. But what's better for me is the fact I can use it to pay as I go as I do at home without any worries. I either dump a load of money on it before I go and any left I just use for food shopping when I'm back or just top up as and when I need to from my current account.
So far I've only used it within the EU and Ukraine.

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hippy in reply to @Tomo187

I save 10-12% over using a normal current account card abroad

How? Just fees or better budgeting?
There's no way my fees were in the 10% range but I still didn't appreciate the £40+ 'bonus' after forgetting about int. charges on my amex during TABR last year.

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Tomo187 in reply to @hippy

It's a mixture of immediate saving on fees but beyond that it's from making sure you allow Revolut to do the currency conversion rather than the bank that owns the ATM or your own bank back home. Both of which will fuck you with shit rates. Same applies in restaurants etc.

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