Seychelles money advice

[CS27]

I’m visiting the Seychelles soon and just wondered what the best advice is for taking money.

They use Seychelles rupee but I don’t think it can be bought in the Uk, so we can take some out over there on Monzo but that’s limited to £200 or £600 over the 3 accounts we have. Anything over is charged at 3%

But is there any advantage to take euros or sterling to swap to SCR over there and get a better rate like you can do say in Thailand or Poland?

Thanks

[Whitean3]

I seem to recall when we went there (2009, so some time ago)- we took Euros with us. Maybe a few rupees too. Suggest you ask your travel agent too

[CS27]

Thanks.

No travel agent, we’ve booked it all ourselves.

I believe you can’t buy Seychelles rupees outside of the country so will be either GBP or EUR cash and a bit of card unless anyone else knows what to do.

Maybe GBP is better for converting to SCR so it doesn’t have to be converted twice and then a bit of EUR for spending over there

[vikingaero]

Years since I've been, but the preference is to have tourists pay in Euros or USD for touristy stuff. Some places will accept GBP.

[K50 DEL]

I took USD when I went, everyone accepted it and paying that way seemed to be the norm.