Jan 11

Jan 11 A Currency Guide for your Mediterranean Cruise

Cruise Basics, Cruise Planning, Fact Sheets, Europe, Mediterranean Cruising, New to Cruise

With people planning cruises for Summer 22 and 23 we’ve been getting a few enquiries about the different currencies that you need for a Mediterranean Cruise so we have put together a handy guide for Cruisers.

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If you have a credit or debit card with no fees for overseas transactions you will need a lot less cash ashore as you can use the card for small purchases such as a cup of coffee and getting cash from an ATM. We use a Currency travel card when travelling such as Monzo - it gets you a much better exchange rate than a credit card and gives you an instant confirmation of the amount charged to your card via its clever App

Don’t all European countries take the Euro?

The rock of Gibraltar is easily spotted at the entrance to the Mediterranean

No! Oddly they don’t… so we have prepared you a handy checklist of all those that border the Mediterranean, or are Island Nations within it , and also included places that aren’t usually thought of as Cruise Destinations. We have listed them as if clockwise direction around the Sea from the Atlantic at Spain to north of the Strait of Gibraltar and back round to Morocco to the south.

Obviously many countries do take the Euro and these are shown in Bold.

Countries outside the Eurozone may still accept Euro but will tend to give you a very poor rate in exchange.

Some countries have ‘Closed’ currencies - these are currencies cannot be pre-ordered or exchanged outside that country. You have to exchange money on Arrival and back again on Departure so it is worth knowing which countries are affected - we have noted them below as (closed)

The list runs from Spain at the left hand side of the map on the northern Atlantic coast and all the way around and back again to Morrocco on the Southern Atlantic coast

Spain - Euro

France - Euro

Monaco - Euro

Italy - Euro

Slovenia - Euro

Croatia- Croatian kuna

Bosnia – Convertible Mark

Montenegro - Euro

Albania- Albanian Lek (closed)

Greece- Euro

Turkey - Turkish Lira

Syria – Syria pound

Lebanon - Lebanese pound

Israel – New shekel

Jordan – Jordanian dinar

Egypt – Egyptian pound

Libya – Libyan dinar (closed)

Tunisia – Tunisian dinar (closed)

Algeria – Algerian Dinar

Morocco- Moroccan dirham (closed)

Cyprus- Euro

Gibraltar - GB Pounds Sterling

Malta - Euro

I hope you find this information on Mediterranean currencies useful - please add any thoughts or questions below in the comments section.

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Happy portExploring!

Cathy

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