Paying for tickets - pounds or euros?

14th January 2007, 08:23 AM

Will a UK railway ticket office accept euros for tickets?

How about Tescos? Do they take euros?

Thanks.
Tudor Jones.

14th January 2007, 09:19 AM

David Hansen wrote:

> On 14 Jan 2007 13:23:49 GMT someone who may be
> ba412@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Tudor Jones) wrote this:-
>
> >Will a UK railway ticket office accept euros for tickets?
>
> Doubt it.
>
> >How about Tescos? Do they take euros?
>
> Ditto.
>
> Try changing them in a bank, or keep them for further use.
>

The Post Office has pretty good rates, but not all Post Offices offer a
foreign currency exchange service - check on their website:
http://www.postoffice.co.uk/

14th January 2007, 11:28 AM

Tudor Jones (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
<eodat5$ngj$1@theodyn.ncf.ca>:

> Will a UK railway ticket office accept euros for tickets?
>
> How about Tescos? Do they take euros?
>
> Thanks.
> Tudor Jones.

Wherever Euros are accepted in this country, only the *notes* will be
accepted since British banks will not process the coins.

One of our customers (a tourist office) found this out the hard way. They
proclaimed "We take Euros" on their tills, and soon ended up with a drawer
full of Euro coins of various denominations which the banks didn't want to
know. Next visit, we had to reprogram the tills to display "We take Euro
banknotes".
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14th January 2007, 12:14 PM

Tudor Jones wrote:

> Will a UK railway ticket office accept euros for tickets?
>
> How about Tescos? Do they take euros?
>
> Thanks.
> Tudor Jones.

I believe M&S and Debenhams accept euros. With regards to rail; the
Waterloo International ticket office will accept them and most of the
larger train stations have Bureau De Changes.

A little known fact is that BT Phoneboxes accept euro coins; the 1 euro
and 50 cent coins only at a fixed exchange rate of 60p / euro.

In London; Dixons, Tie Rack, Miss Selfridge and HMV take euros as far
as I know.

14th January 2007, 12:15 PM

Tudor Jones wrote:

> How about Tescos? Do they take euros?

Tesco in Canterbury - as well as a significant number of other shops in
the city centre - take Euros.

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14th January 2007, 12:56 PM

But what of railways beyond NIR and Eurostar? The Caledonian Sleeper
service crews can take payment in Euro notes, though like much in the
railway as a whole, it is a pick and mix of attitudes/training.

14th January 2007, 01:26 PM

Neal wrote:
> I believe M&S and Debenhams accept euros. With regards to rail; the
> Waterloo International ticket office will accept them and most of the
> larger train stations have Bureau De Changes.
>
> A little known fact is that BT Phoneboxes accept euro coins; the 1 euro
> and 50 cent coins only at a fixed exchange rate of 60p / euro.
>
> In London; Dixons, Tie Rack, Miss Selfridge and HMV take euros as far
> as I know.

Also some retail outlets are able to take foreign credit & debit cards
and process the payment through in the card holder's own currency.

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14th January 2007, 03:00 PM

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:26:14 +0000, Phil Richards wrote:

>
> Also some retail outlets are able to take foreign credit & debit cards
> and process the payment through in the card holder's own currency.

Any Visa or Mastercard card will be accepted by any shop that does those
cards no matter what the country of issue. I think that is one of Visa's
merchant rules. Some of the point of sale machines also offer to bill in
the card holders currency instead of the locale's currency, but i've found
you generally are worse off, Visa's conversion rate is better than that
offered by the machine at 'point of sale'.

An Australian Debit card causes problems - it's a PIN card with out a
chip...

If you want currency entertainment , try using Scottish bank notes in
London :-).

14th January 2007, 06:20 PM

Neal wrote:
> Tudor Jones wrote:
>
>> Will a UK railway ticket office accept euros for tickets?
>>
>> How about Tescos? Do they take euros?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Tudor Jones.
>
> I believe M&S and Debenhams accept euros. With regards to rail; the
> Waterloo International ticket office will accept them and most of the
> larger train stations have Bureau De Changes.
>
> A little known fact is that BT Phoneboxes accept euro coins; the 1 euro
> and 50 cent coins only at a fixed exchange rate of 60p / euro.
>
> In London; Dixons, Tie Rack, Miss Selfridge and HMV take euros as far
> as I know.

Perhaps surprisingly for an sector where many people think the world
stopped in 1948 or 1968, I've notice an increasing number of stalls at
model railways shows with prices in euros.

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15th January 2007, 02:56 AM

Roland Perry wrote:

> It's 1.55, which is better than you'll get changing notes at the
> airport! At today's tourist rate of 1.58, E20 is worth Â£12.65, so I'm
> not surprised you got yelled at when handing it in :)

Shops that accept euros in Canterbury usually use a rate of 1 euro to
the pound. So the already inflated prices for tourist tat are even more
expensive! But then people still pay with euros (mostly the French
schoolkids on day trips though)...

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