Curacao Sunshine
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A couple of things....
A guilder is worth 57 cents, round it off to 60. To find out how much your guilder purchase is in dollars, multiply by 6 and divide by 10. In other words, 10 guilders is approx. 6 dollars. Or memorize a few rounded dollar amounts $10 = 17.50 guilders and $20 = 35 guilders. Your choice of math.
As everywhere there is a very small problem with charge cards. No one will feel insulted if you follow them to watch the card transaction and immediately take your card. They use swipe machines here, take the carbon. I have even heard of a scam at the ATMs. I only heard this from one person but I don't want it to happen to you. Hold your hand over the keypad when you enter the pin code. From what I hear, you might want to make this a practice every time you use your card in the States. Please check your statements 2 months after you get back from vacation, again, after every vacation.
You can use dollars or guilders every where but no one will accept US coins or 100 dollar bills except the hotels, high end restaurants and probably the dive shops. Please bring smaller denominations. You might have a hard time using travelers checks. No make that you will have a hard time using your travelers checks except at the places listed above.You will get your change back in guilders.
You can also change your money (but really not necessary) at the banks and at the casinos.
A guilder is worth 57 cents, round it off to 60. To find out how much your guilder purchase is in dollars, multiply by 6 and divide by 10. In other words, 10 guilders is approx. 6 dollars. Or memorize a few rounded dollar amounts $10 = 17.50 guilders and $20 = 35 guilders. Your choice of math.
As everywhere there is a very small problem with charge cards. No one will feel insulted if you follow them to watch the card transaction and immediately take your card. They use swipe machines here, take the carbon. I have even heard of a scam at the ATMs. I only heard this from one person but I don't want it to happen to you. Hold your hand over the keypad when you enter the pin code. From what I hear, you might want to make this a practice every time you use your card in the States. Please check your statements 2 months after you get back from vacation, again, after every vacation.
You can use dollars or guilders every where but no one will accept US coins or 100 dollar bills except the hotels, high end restaurants and probably the dive shops. Please bring smaller denominations. You might have a hard time using travelers checks. No make that you will have a hard time using your travelers checks except at the places listed above.You will get your change back in guilders.
You can also change your money (but really not necessary) at the banks and at the casinos.
We spent so much time in Westpunt that we figured we'll just stay there this time around. We'll just drive into town a few times to check out things like the giant chickens the wife wants to see.
