Post Office Prepaid Money card

[joestifff]

Colleague is going to Dubai on her honeymoon, along with Bali and somewhere else I forget!

We have done a bit of a roundup of cash at work and got her a nice amount to take with her, probably end up being about £1,500.

We are thinking of just buying a prepaid Mastercard like the link below in her name, and loading the money onto it, so she can spend as she likes in Dubai:

https://www.postoffice.co.uk/travel-money/card?cam...

I have never been to Dubai, so presume that this is widely accepted, and is probably better than carrying around all that cash?

Any advice welcome.

Cheers

[GreatGranny]

Pay the cash into your account and then transfer to her account.
She can then use her debit card.

Or hand over the £1500 cash in a brown envelope and she can pay it into her account.

[Alorotom]

joestifff said:

Colleague is going to Dubai on her honeymoon, along with Bali and somewhere else I forget!

We have done a bit of a roundup of cash at work and got her a nice amount to take with her, probably end up being about £1,500.

We are thinking of just buying a prepaid Mastercard like the link below in her name, and loading the money onto it, so she can spend as she likes in Dubai:

https://www.postoffice.co.uk/travel-money/card?cam...

I have never been to Dubai, so presume that this is widely accepted, and is probably better than carrying around all that cash?

Any advice welcome.

Cheers

Thats a cracking whip-round!

A prepaid card like that will work perfectly, very widely accepted in Dubai - been a couple of times this year and haven't taken a penny in real money either time (nor will I be in 4 weeks time)

[Truckosaurus]

The only potential problem with pre-paid cards is that if you don't spend the money on it then there's hefty fees to get the money off - but I suspect that might not be an issue here...