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Old Feb 22, 2012 | 4:42 pm
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Originally Posted by whiskerxx
With a vacation looming I thought I'd check out the best way to convert some currency.
I logged into AVIOS and then followed the link to Travelex.
I was going to exchange £501 into another currency. The deal would bag me 500 AVIOS.
I thought I'd also check the Travelex website, without the AVIOS connection.
The same amount of "foreign" currency was only going to cost £476

So in effect I would have been paying an additional £25 for 500 AVIOS!

It must have been mentioned before I guess?

I'd be interested to hear your opinions?

Same story with car rentals, but even worse I think.

Changed my BA AWD code on Avis to the Amex Platinum one and a £550 per week rental quote dropped to almost £400, no avios though, boohoo
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