{"id":12791,"date":"2012-05-22T01:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=12791"},"modified":"2012-05-22T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T08:34:10","slug":"12791","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=12791","title":{"rendered":"Euros for Europe an Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEAVING VENICE &#8212; If you&#39;re planning a cruise in Europe this year, or any year, one of the questions you&#39;re likely to have is:<\/p>\n<p>What do I do about euros?<\/p>\n<p>Prior to leaving to board the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniacruises.com\/default.aspx\">Oceania<\/a> Riviera for nine days, sailing from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monte-carlo.mc\/\">Monte Carlo<\/a> to Venice, we had the same question&#8230;and many different answers (i.e., don&#39;t count on the Internet).<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it will help you to know how and where we bought euros:<\/p>\n<p>1. At the bank before leaving North America&#8230;each euro cost $1.38 and there was no service charge. For each 100 euros: $138.<\/p>\n<p>2. On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniacruises.com\/ships\/riviera\/default.aspx\">Riviera<\/a>&#8230;each euro cost $1.41 plus a service charge of 5%. For each 100 euros: $146.<\/p>\n<p>3. At a &quot;change&quot; (as in currency exchange) window in St. Mark&#39;s Square in Venice&#8230;each euro cost $1.29, but the service charge was a whopping 15% (that&#39;s not advertised until you&#39;re given the bill). For each 100 euros: $144.<\/p>\n<p>4. At a bank in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comune.venezia.it\/flex\/cm\/pages\/ServeBLOB.php\/L\/EN\/IDPagina\/1\">Venice<\/a>&#8230;each euro cost $1.29, with a fixed fee of 8.5 euros no matter how much currency you exchanged. For the first 100 euros: $140. For 200 euros: $135 per 100.<\/p>\n<p>While you have to factor in day-to-day currency fluctuations, our conclusion is that for whatever spending you don&#39;t put on a credit card, don&#39;t buy euros on the ship or at a currency exchange shop, and you can take that to the bank&#8230;any bank!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2012\/04\/classic-celebrities-cruise-celebrity\/dailydeal-2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12028\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12028\" height=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" title=\"DailyDeal-2\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Royal Caribbean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/findacruise\/ships\/class\/ship\/home.do;jsessionid=0000qNZMYvzM70BFt-cLBOv1KIR:12hbioan0?br=R&amp;shipClassCode=VY&amp;shipCode=NV\">Navigator of the Seas<\/a><br \/>\n\t7 nights<br \/>\n\tJune 24, 2012<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rome.info\/\">Rome<\/a> (return): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestofsicily.com\/messina.htm\">Messina<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ephesus.us\/\">Ephesus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.athensguide.org\/\">Athens<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorecrete.com\/\">Crete<\/a><br \/>\n\tInside: $499<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><strong>Cost per day: $72<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/home.do\">www.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEAVING VENICE &#8212; If you&#39;re planning a cruise in Europe this year, or any year, one of the questions you&#39;re likely to have is: What do I do about euros? Prior to leaving to board the Oceania Riviera for nine days, sailing from Monte Carlo to Venice, we had the same question&#8230;and many different answers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=12791\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Euros for Europe an Experience<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,31,36,15],"tags":[912,72,51,35,925,354,22,907,811,747],"class_list":["post-12791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-reviews","category-stories","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ports","tag-cruises","tag-currency-exchange","tag-europe","tag-european-cruises","tag-oceania-cruises","tag-oceania-riviera","tag-venice","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}