Paying For Voa In Bali With Thai Baht

[Genericnic]

Hi all

I searched the forum for this and didn't find anything,

I'll be flying to Bali next week and need to know if I can pay the visa on arrival (VOA) fee of $25.00 with baht. I'll be in BKK this weekend so I can pick up dollars if I need them but it would be easier to just use baht since I live in Thailand and don't keep US currency on hand.

Thanks

David

p.s. US citizenship

[orchis]

You could but they will convert tha baht to rupiah and the rupiah to dollars so you will lose. You can buy 25 usd easily in Bangkok.

[Genericnic]

Thanks orchis. I'll run by SuperRich and pick up a few $.

David

[theoldgit]

I got mine at the airport on the way out of Bangok, the slightly poor exchange rate didn't really cost me for such a small amount.

[Shurup]

I went to Bali for a week just a month ago and was asking similar questions.

My advice - get USD as you will get rip off rate paying with anything other than USD. You can pay pretty much with any currency.

Another advice - don't exchangfe money at the airport - every single exchage place there is a rip off rate.

If yoiu have more questions about Bali - go ahead and ask, I was there just a month ago as I said.