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Money Exchange Offices with good prices in Poland?


Amanda_523  1 | 3  
1 Mar 2012 /  #1
I came to Poland last week. I exchanged my money in my homeland but now I'm in need of exchange more cash (my wallet is nearly empty). I would like to exchange money during weekend. Do you know any exchange offices opened during the weekend with good prices?
phtoa  9 | 236  
1 Mar 2012 /  #2
Which city are you in?
gumishu  15 | 6169  
1 Mar 2012 /  #3
most exchange offices have very similar rates and they are good rates mostly - I don't know if they compare to the rates when you draw out your money from a bank card from an ATM (I guess so because there is often some additional fee for every instance of drawing money from ATM and that can hugely influence the actual rate when you draw out smaller amounts of cash) - as far as I know most exchange offices are open on Saturdays - you just need to find one and that's it (don't use bank branches to exchange your money - they don't have competitive rates and that on purpose (they don't want queues of people wanting to exchange money) )
Wroclaw Boy  
1 Mar 2012 /  #4
exchange offices opened during the weekend with good prices?

use a Kantor kiosk they are located everywhere, just look for the KANTOR sign
DepressedOne  - | 34  
1 Mar 2012 /  #5
Any exchange office will be ok I think. There are really small differences between them, just don't exchange money in the banks, as gumishu said ;)
Harry  
1 Mar 2012 /  #7
Warsaw

Try Conti on Jana Pawla. Open 24hrs and has decent rates.
OP Amanda_523  1 | 3  
2 Mar 2012 /  #8
Thank's a lot for suggesting Jana Pawla Street :) I still feel confused with communication in a foreign country so your advice really helped me out! :)
beliall  - | 25  
2 Mar 2012 /  #9
Just take it out the ATM as this works out cheaper, dependent on which bank you use in your home country you will normally get a few points below the central bank exchange rate
JonnyM  11 | 2607  
2 Mar 2012 /  #10
Just take it out the ATM as this works out cheaper,

Usually it doesn't. Though it pays to choose a good kantor.

One trap is when cash machines offer to pay out either at (your bank's) market rate or a fixed rate. Never choose the fixed rate, it is a scam.
Patrick35  1 | 17  
3 Mar 2012 /  #11
I think that in every shopping centre there is a KANTOR. There is one for sure in the shopping centre next to Warsaw central train station
OP Amanda_523  1 | 3  
4 Mar 2012 /  #12
I'm going today to Golden Tarases as you suggested and try to exchange my money ;) Thank's for the tip :)
LwowskaKrakow  28 | 431  
4 Mar 2012 /  #13
most exchange offices have very similar rates and they are good rates mostly

In fact there are quite big differences among KANTOR 's rates in Krakow , one must avoid the Kantors located on Glowny Rynek, Florianska and choose kantors located 5 minutes walk away from Stare Miasto.

It is easy to find a 10 to 15 % difference in their rates !

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