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Old Jun 8, 2019 | 8:14 pm
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Plato90s
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These days, I have 2x wallets when I travel internationally so a total of 5x credit and 2x ATM.


My daily-use wallet gets put away into a zippered-pocket as soon as I pass airport security, and the travel-wallet would have 1x credit and 1x ATM card (with only 4-digit pin) plus cash/medical insurance card.

When I arrive, the passport holder plus the daily-use wallet goes into a secured-pouch and stored in the safe. The travel-wallet has empty slots for hotel keys (which my regular wallet does not).

Works better that way for me - don't have to worry about shifting things from wallet-to-storage, and vice-versa. When I get back home, reverse process. Put away the travel-wallet, and the daily-use wallet (with my house key) goes back into my pocket.


Plus side is that priority pass has gone digital - so 1 fewer card to carry in travel-wallet.


I've had issues in the past when foreign ATM's won't accept overly-long PINs, I've lost 1x card because it dropped on the floor while I was transferring, and my travel-wallet is a lot slimmer than my daily-use one since it doesn't have prox-cards, etc... in it.
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