I have a visa card from some kind of e-currency system like paypal (epassporte.com in particular).

So I can get money from my account only by ATM.

Here all ATMs have only bahts.

How do I get usd or euro here from my visa card?

Visa exchange rate is not good too. It converts usd to bahts using rate like 34.5

I'm a bit confused - In Thailand the currency is Baht, why would you need $ or Euro?

I've never heard of an ATM in other currencies. If you need $ you would have to draw out Baht and then change in the bank.

Xchange rate is low because the $ is weakening against the Baht

Maybe he met the hooker that accosted me a couple

of months ago at 2am in a bar on Rambuttri.

She wanted to come and "see my room" for the bargain

basement price of $100 (her words and choice of currency).

I have seen dual corrency ATMs in other countries, but these other countries will accept US$ at the checkout as well as their local currency. You cannot hand over a dollar note at your local mum and dad shop for a bottle of chang so there is no need for dual currency ATMs.

I have a visa card from some kind of e-currency system like paypal (epassporte.com in particular).

So I can get money from my account only by ATM.

Here all ATMs have only bahts.

How do I get usd or euro here from my visa card?

Visa exchange rate is not good too. It converts usd to bahts using rate like 34.5

You can get a cash advance on your visa card in Baht and then exchange the baht for EURO or USD over the counter, a truly cost effective way to do things, not!

This is something I have seen recently, and IIRC it was airside at Suvarnabhumi (or was it Schipol).

Never seen one anywhere else, what would be the point, you can't spend Euro or Yankee dollar here?

If you want to withdraw another currency from your local ATM just input the code #666*xxx* before inputting the amount you wish to withdraw. (*xxx* - replace with *eur*, *usd*, *gbp* etc).

Hope this helps.

Hah, that's a good one. Supposedly the small man who lives inside ATM machines then just print whatever currency you want and push it out through the slot?

666 deserves a big 555

Take a trip to Phnom Penh, all ATM's there give out only US$'s.

Naka.

Hah, that's a good one. Supposedly the small man who lives inside ATM machines then just print whatever currency you want and push it out through the slot?

Very good, Phil C. But, you also have to order it in his language: "Ola, Jose, unos pesos, por favor."

I only ever saw a dual-dispensing ATM at the Mexican border. But on both sides of that border (Brownsville-Matamoros), many vendors accepted either pesos or dollars.

As in Cambodia perhaps, the almight dollar reigned in Nicaragua, too. Every street side vendor knew the current exchange rate for cordobas/dolares.

Well, the problem is that I cannot withdraw to a regualr bank account. I have to use an ATM to get cash.

Then I have to use a bank cash-in to get the money in my personal bank account.

P.S. In Moscow, Russia almost all ATMs are dual or even trial currency - RUB, USD and EUR.

I think Hucus is trying to say that the exchange rate isn't good when he withdraws from his foreign account using a Visa CC. So he wants to get his "home" currency (i.e. USD, EUR) and exchange at the thai bank on his own at a better rate. Is that right, Hucus?

I think Hucus is trying to say that the exchange rate isn't good when he withdraws from his foreign account using a Visa CC. So he wants to get his "home" currency (i.e. USD, EUR) and exchange at the thai bank on his own at a better rate. Is that right, Hucus?

Correct.

Also I don't need so much bahts as I can get from the card. I have to exchange them back in order to transfer them to my saving account. I just think the process is not optimized so should be fixed :-)

If you have a savings account in US$ then you should transfer money to it directly from overseas.

Dual currency ATM's only exist in countries where the US$ is acceptable along side the local currency,

which is NOT the case in Thailand.

The only country where I have seen it was in Lebanon, where the is a fixed peg of LL1500 = US$1.

I have seen dual corrency ATMs in other countries, but these other countries will accept US$ at the checkout as well as their local currency. You cannot hand over a dollar note at your local mum and dad shop for a bottle of chang so there is no need for dual currency ATMs.

Any place I work accepts most currencies I can get a conversion rate. The rate is less than competitive, but the local money changers charge a fee on top of their bad rate. For small transactions it is accepted, and I get holiday money .