restriction on money INTO Egypt

Is there a restriction on the amount of money you can take into Sharm?
I have just got £300 and someone has told me that I am only allowed to
take £100!! Does anyone have any knowledge as to whether they actually
ask/search?Am going sat/sun so prompt reply would be great!

they will accept as much money as you have.

Getting it changed back from Egies to quids is very difficult.

"dd" <dippy_diver@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7246e82a.0403250602.210e8057@posting.google.c om...
> Is there a restriction on the amount of money you can take into Sharm?
> I have just got £300 and someone has told me that I am only allowed to
> take £100!! Does anyone have any knowledge as to whether they actually
> ask/search?Am going sat/sun so prompt reply would be great!

I always shop and tip in Egyptian - never took a dollar on any of my trips.

Change your money into Egyptian over there - you'll get a much better rate
than here

Chris Q
"Dave Morgan" <morgandgoesdiving@cix.co.uk> wrote in message
news:memo.20040325145054.7485E@morgand.compulink.c o.uk...
> In article <7246e82a.0403250602.210e8057@posting.google.com >,
> dippy_diver@hotmail.com (dd) wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any knowledge as to whether they actually
> > ask/search?
>
> Never been asked when arriving.....i think the limits are applied by
> countries when you try and take it OUT (£'s out of uk).....in LARGE
> quantities.....
>
> You should be changing your £'s for US $'s at the moment though, best
> rates for some time, the USA is much maligned by lots of countries but
> they all clammier for its mighty $......strange eh....and the amount of
> countries that i have visited where one finds out that the USA is pouring
> millions of dollars in aid into that country is staggering.
>
> Dollars are good also for tipping, they still use the 1 dollar note
> whereas we only have the 5£ note so when you need to tip for something a
> note is allways received with a smile, but a pound coin....they dont want
> that, plus a dollar is worth less than a pound.
>
> Take out the "goes diving bit"
> Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK :^)
>

"Chris Quinn" <chris.quinn@nospam.zoom.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I always shop and tip in Egyptian - never took a dollar on any of my
trips.

Euros were as good as dollars last Nov when I was there!

Eddie



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In article <c3uva6$apc$1@sparta.btinternet.com>, Eddie@btinternet.com
(Eddie) wrote:

> Euros

Never used one.......hope i never have to........

Take out the "goes diving bit"
Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK :^)

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:16 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) in uk.rec.scuba,
Dave Morgan says:

>I change as little as possible into local, i take US$ everywhere and
>anywhere, it is accepted universally...

Saw it turned down in Sharm in January, Euro, Sterling or local
needed.


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Ian
"reorganising, a wonderful method for creating an illusion of progress"

In article <c41u99$2d988c$1@ID-65533.news.uni-berlin.de>,
boots@despammed.com (Ian Blakeley) wrote:

> Saw it turned down in Sharm

MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm, strange......Sharm has suffered from Money scams from
former communist states.........perhaps it was the person rather than the
currency that was'nt liked.... ?????????

Take out the "goes diving bit"
Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK :^)

"Ian Blakeley" <boots@despammed.com> wrote in message
news:c41u99$2d988c$1@ID-65533.news.uni-berlin.de...
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:16 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) in uk.rec.scuba,
> Dave Morgan says:
>
> >I change as little as possible into local, i take US$ everywhere and
> >anywhere, it is accepted universally...
>
> Saw it turned down in Sharm in January, Euro, Sterling or local
> needed.
>
I saw that in January as well. But there were a large amount of Ruskies
with Euros flooding the place. Euros are harder to counterfeit than US$ and
GBP£. The russian Mafia are world renown for there counterfeit currency.
The near perfect £20s over here in circulation are all russian.

Word of advise - if you do accept payment from a Russian don't refuse it
because it's fake - as refusal often offends. Instead accept it politely
and then spend it at your local supermarket as the checkout girls can rarely
notice the counterfiet currency.

Alex

In article <4065515a$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>,
marshdiver@tiscali.co.uk (Splosh Junkie) wrote:

> The russian Mafia

I was being tactful, did'nt want to "name" a particular nationality as
there are good and bad in all walks of life.


Take out the "goes diving bit"
Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK :^)

"dd" <dippy_diver@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7246e82a.0403250602.210e8057@posting.google.c om...
> Is there a restriction on the amount of money you can take into Sharm?
> I have just got £300 and someone has told me that I am only allowed to
> take £100!! Does anyone have any knowledge as to whether they actually
> ask/search?Am going sat/sun so prompt reply would be great!

Think you must have misunderstood a little about these regulations that was
referred to: Norways foremost dive travel agency, - "Natureventyr" in Oslo
=(Eng: Nature Adventures) tells me that the only limitation for currency
into Egype are EGYPTIAN £'s! Same thing says my bank's cambio dept. The
authorities want you to bring into their country as much foreign currency as
possible. It's not allowed to bring out Egyptian £ either. Another thing is
that you will maybe not get the best exchange rates from GB£. US$ and Euro
gives better rates in many stores/hotels in Egypt nowadays. Personally I
normally use VISA/AMEX or Eurocard and only bring some small Euro-or
US$-bills for tips and small purchases the first days at the spot. 24 h
ATM's are installed in both Sharm el-Sheik & Hurgada.

30 people from my club leaves for Sharm in November.

C U there?

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