Holiday Spending

[craig1912]

Starling for the ease of loading it with foreign currency and Chase for the cashback

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You can’t “load” foreign currency on a Starling account. It’s a UK current account.

[edzt]

You can’t “load” foreign currency on a Starling account. It’s a UK current account.

Sorry, but I can, as I speak I’ve got £80 and € 203 euros on mine
You go into the app and tell your card which balance to use


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[Montello]

Revolut.
ask if any of your friends have one as there’s a £50 referral.
so easy to use, and you can have multiple currencies/spending and transaction limits etc. you can even transfer across at particular times of day for a better rate. (rates are competitive too)
they do not work on aircraft for buying food/booze for some reason.

I use Revolut; excellent for managing multiple currencies and no silly fees.

I now do all my "casual" spending on Revolut partly to ring fence my main bank account from any fraud risks. I set the auto top up at £200 and it all works very well. Also had good analysis in the app to see where the money is going.

[craig1912]

Sorry, but I can, as I speak I’ve got £80 and € 203 euros on mine
You go into the app and tell your card which balance to use


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OK I guess technically I was incorrect.

You have a Euro current account alongside your UK current account (you can’t have the euro one unless you have the UK one).

You stated “foreign currency” and whilst the euro is a foreign currency, you can’t “load” any other foreign currency.

The OP I believe stated he was travelling to Canada and the Euro current account would be pretty pointless.

[jakesblue]

Nobody's mentioned TransferWise so I'll roll that out as another option too! Works really well along similar lines to Starling

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