Revolut?Is it free to withdraw Euros in France? (1 Viewer)

[Camper634]

Hi.Could any Revolut users please advised the best way to withdraw your Euros when in France.Best days to avoid?Thank you.

 

[Nigel Crompton]

You'll prob'ly have to pay the ATM owner for the privilege of using their machine.
Make one cash withdrawl of €x00, stuff it under the mattress for emergencies and pay for everything using your card ... (having first created a € balance on the card)

 

[Riverbankannie]

Hi.Could any Revolut users please advised the best way to withdraw your Euros when in France.Best days to avoid?Thank you.

Avoid ATMs that charge a fee. Always look for an ATM that is at a bank, they tend to be fee free. You can only withdraw 200/300 euros a month, I think but these days you can use contactless for nearly everything.
Revolut will charge you no fee if you already have the euros in your wallet. However, if your money is in sterling wallet then it will charge to exchange and charge more outside banking hours.

So, move your sterling money into euros first and do it in banking hours.
Use an ATM at a bank
Don’t withdraw more than the allowed amount.

In France, I was going around ATM as I passed them getting out 10 or 20 euros at a time. This gave me a stash of small value notes, much better than the 100 euro notes you get if changing money in UK. The app will make you confirm it is you if you go to 2 in one day.

 

[carolyn]

Avoid ATMs that charge a fee. Always look for an ATM that is at a bank, they tend to be fee free. You can only withdraw 200/300 euros a month, I think but these days you can use contactless for nearly everything.
Revolut will charge you no fee if you already have the euros in your wallet. However, if your money is in sterling wallet then it will charge to exchange and charge more outside banking hours.

So, move your sterling money into euros first and do it in banking hours.
Use an ATM at a bank
Don’t withdraw more than the allowed amount.

In France, I was going around ATM as I passed them getting out 10 or 20 euros at a time. This gave me a stash of small value notes, much better than the 100 euro notes you get if changing money in UK. The app will make you confirm it is you if you go to 2 in one day.

Is that something new that I’ve missed Annie? I thought that the charges only applied at weekends. I must admit I almost always have plenty of Euros in my wallet but thought that if I’d run out they just converted it at that days rate fee free as normal on weekdays. They certainly used to.

I know with Starling you have to convert pounds to euros but I thought that was because they were completely different accounts with different IBAN numbers whereas Revolut have a single IBAN number.

 

[Riverbankannie]

Is that something new that I’ve missed Annie? I thought that the charges only applied at weekends. I must admit I almost always have plenty of Euros in my wallet but thought that if I’d run out they just converted it at that days rate fee free as normal on weekdays. They certainly used to.

I know with Starling you have to convert pounds to euros but I thought that was because they were completely different accounts with different IBAN numbers whereas Revolut have a single IBAN number.

I think it depends on your plan. On the standard (free) plan I know the money exchange is cheapest in banking hours when you go in and move money yourself. So i assume the same applies if you withdraw or spend cash in euros and there is not enough in the wallet, an exchange has to be made from sterling.

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[Riverbankannie]

Here we go
You'll always see the total cost in-app before you convert, along with the Revolut exchange rate. If the amount you're exchanging is within your plan's fair usage limit, you won't pay any currency exchange fees on weekdays. You'll pay a 1% fee on all currency exchanges during the weekend, no matter what plan you have.

 

[carolyn]

Here we go
You'll always see the total cost in-app before you convert, along with the Revolut exchange rate. If the amount you're exchanging is within your plan's fair usage limit, you won't pay any currency exchange fees on weekdays. You'll pay a 1% fee on all currency exchanges during the weekend, no matter what plan you have.

Obviously we’ve got the standard plan, there’s no way I’d pay for the privilege! There are so many good cards now. Thank you.

 

[Riverbankannie]

Obviously we’ve got the standard plan, there’s no way I’d pay for the privilege! There are so many good cards now. Thank you.

Talking of revolut, made me check my Fulli account. I still don’t have any activity shown. We went through the apnr gates in Portugal and normal toll gates in both Portugal and Spain. Fulli bipped at the ones with toll gates. Only really worried about the APNR ones where there was no bip.

 

[carolyn]

Talking of revolut, made me check my Fulli account. I still don’t have any activity shown. We went through the apnr gates in Portugal and normal toll gates in both Portugal and Spain. Fulli bipped at the ones with toll gates. Only really worried about the APNR ones where there was no bip.

I know in Italy it took about 6 weeks for anything to show. That’s definitely been the slowest so far. We never made it into Portugal in the end as the weather was so awful so I’m afraid I can’t help you there on timings.

 

[Riverbankannie]

I know in Italy it took about 6 weeks for anything to show. That’s definitely been the slowest so far. We never made it into Portugal in the end as the weather was so awful so I’m afraid I can’t help you there on timings.

Thats a shame, by the time we made it to the coast at Alvor, it was wall to wall sunshine (Easter Monday).

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[carolyn]

Thats a shame, by the time we made it to the coast at Alvor, it was wall to wall sunshine (Easter Monday).

It was going to mean another week of really bad weather for us before it changed and we’d had enough! We didn’t particularly like Cabopino either so couldn’t wait to move once we’d made the decision.

 

[Andy Norfolk]

I was charged 5 euros when I took cash out from my revolut euro account by credit agricole in France. Not sure what day but it was a credit agricole charge. Bloody annoying as I worked for them for 10 years!

 

[Just smiffy]

It’s the atm’s that charge probably not the card but some cards do…

I sweared by Revolut and used it all the time but now I use Chase for everything and I mean everything, no charges, same exchange rates and you get interest and rewards. I hardly pay for anything by cash…