Do you really want to leave your currency exchange to the last minute (at the airport) where there’s no margin for error? Travel dates have a habit of coming up fast, leaving you with too much to do and too little time. Take our advice and get your foreign currency sorted a few weeks before you’re booked to leave.
Now, do banks have good rates? We probably don’t need to answer that one, but we will. We mentioned high shop rentals above but with the rates that banks offer you’d think they were operating out of a penthouse suite in the Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney CBD. Traditionally the big banks had a lot less competition across the board and could get away charging terrible rates, so they did and still do. These goliath corporations are expensive to run and that money has to come from somewhere.