Originally Posted by
inyourvillages
If you can't open an account in Euros, I'd at least ask my bank if they could give me a favorable rate for depositing them as dollars in my account.
Typically, the rule is that "your own bank" should take care of you the best. Since you have two, play one off against the other. With a sum like this, any fee should be trivial, in any event. This was all true for me until my bank was swallowed up by another one. No more. ...OK, now it's BofA.