Taking cash out of the country...

[Rick@62]

Is it correct that when leaving the UK via Dover, Newhaven etc or any other ferry port, the British Passport / Customs control people will always ask you "are you carrying any cash" and "how much and in what currency"?

I have never been asked this question at an airport when flying out of the UK.

Is there a cash limit in UK Sterling that you can take out of the UK?

I can understand that anyone taking £100k for example in used notes onto the Dover - Calais ferry whilst going on holiday in their MH would raise some suspicions but surely, a grand (for example) in used cash would be allowed! Its your own money after all.

Has anyone been asked this question at the ports? If so, does anyone know what the cash limit is? Has anyone ever been searched either personally or had their MH spun over by customs when leaving the UK regarding how much cash you are carrying?

Many thanks,
Rick

PS........ no, im not planning anything untoward, just asking a genuine question as, come Spring time, im hoping to do my first run to France in my MH.

 

[fishplug]

Your posted link does not state that. You can carry 10 k per person.,you just have to declare it.

It does, but it's for Northern Ireland..

If you’re travelling as a family or group with more than €10,000 in total (even if individuals are carrying less than that) you still need to make a declaration.

 

[fishplug]

I've carried two phones for years.

One personal, one work. Never the twain shall meet.

Never been questioned about it and have travelled to many countries with both (sat here with both in front of me having been to four countries with them in the last week...)

 

[Trev45]

What's cash?

I believe it is used by people who like to avoid paying tax.

 

[Brains]

What's cash?

A bit before my time, but he was a popular American singer in the 1960's

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[Northernraider]

Never been asked entering or exiting UK

I was asked once in Italy when disembarking the Greek ferry . I just said no


But I always have a decent amount of cash with me.
I prefer to currency exchange than withdraw cash when abroad .

 

[Brains]

Cash is king,always was,always will be.

However, in the UK, only 11% of people under the age 44 regularly use cash.

Two decades from now they will be the retirees.
By that point cash may be down to the same sort of usage as hand written letters, telephone boxes, landlines and TV ariels.

They may all still exist, but many younger members of staff at any company today have never written a letter, made a phone call from a telephone box, or remember a time when their parents still had a land line or a terrestrial TV.

Bring back white dog shit, 3 channels on the TV, queuing at the box for the weekly phone call, and waiting for the birthday letter from Granny with a 10 shilling postal order.

 

[varaizian]

I'm now 76 but avoid using cash like the plague; Apple Pay rules! We do use digital HD terrestrial French TV but also satellite reception of UK channels and a PVR box. Can't be bothered with "catch-up" tv. Once it is missed it has gone. Hand written letters went long ago apart from those really awkward ones commiserating someone's death; which become more frequent as you get older. There is a slightly smug feeling about still being here to write it though. But white dog shit I had completely forgotten about and the occasional ten bob note discovered in a suit pocket was always wonderful. That was 5 pints back then!!

 

[dryad]

can’t help thinking I would love to have this problem of how much to take..

 

[fishplug]

I like the convenience of contactless and it's what I use 99% of the time, but I'll usually have enough cash to cover emergency situations.

An old ex-army captain friend of mine used to say "always carry your passport and enough cash to leave the country"

Anyway, I would get teased about always having cash by my work colleagues right up until we had a long cab ride from some event in the middle of the mountains back to the airport. The boss had checked that they took cards before booking it so all was good...

...except nobody asked the driver who flatly refused to take cards and was a bit miffed because he'd already done half the journey to come and get us in the middle of nowhere.

Tempers were getting raised on both sides until I stepped in, opened my wallet and said, "It's OK, I've got cash"...

Day saved, and no one teased me about carrying cash after that.

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[frwjd]

no not since the 70s. I do remember the limit being £30 back then per person when going to Spain. Never been asked since.

Any foreign currency had to be noted in the back of your passport too

 

[StillGoing]

Cash is king,always was,always will be.

Many places don’t take cash. If often costs a business more to take cash than to take an electronic payment. With bank branches closing down it’s harder for businesses to pay cash into a bank. Cash is less secure for a business, harder to account for and much riskier to hold. It’s susceptible to theft and fraud.

However, if you’re paying someone trying to avoid paying tax then cash is king.

 

[tacr2man]

When traveling in more out of the way places,(eg Australia) it can save a possibly very long wait being able to pay cash for fuel if the eftpos system is down

A lot of people dont realise that you need to declare cash over E10K going into NI although not the other way into GB

 

[Bill-H]

Always carry and pay using cash. If a shop doesn't want cash, I go elsewhere - their problem not mine.
Travel abroad with cash - well hiden. If my motorhome gets nicked while I'm away, the loss of the cash will be the least of my worries.
Yes I do have cards as well, which I carry.
Used to have jobs many years ago where I'd have thousands of pounds at the end of each day (travelling sales, carrying goods) received from sales made to retailers. Never caused me any discomfort or worry having large amounts of cash about my person - but then I was never walking down shady side streets in cities at 3am carrying it.