Hi I’m going to Italy’s Cilento Coast this June and it has been some time since I have been on holiday abroad and this will be the first time going away on my own and I need some advice on what money/travellers cheques to take.
I know some of you have been to the Hotel Lapprodo before and is it best to take some Euro’s with Travellers Cheques or all Euros’. If I took Travellers Cheques with me how easy is it to change them at this resort?
Also does anyone know how much this hotel charges for a safety deposit box?
Many thanks
Sylvie
Hi Sylvie.
First of all (unless they have changed things from last year) there is a safe in each of the rooms. I have never used one so I am not totally sure if the hotel charges for it or not. I always used to leave my passport behind the reception desk and don't carry many valuables with me anyway. Remember to take a photocopy of your passport with you as you will need it if you are above 65 in some of the museums.
As far as the money issue goes I remember asking this question here on the forum before I first went to Cilento in 2011. The hotel doesn't exchange money (unless again things have changed). I don't bother with travellers cheques now and always get a Euro cash card where you load it up and treat it like a debit card. There is certainly one atm machine in San Marco if not more. Santa Maria (the village just down the coast) has more. Instructions are in English as well as Italian!! I always now take the cash card and some Euros cash to begin with and then change money as I need to.
You may know or have read that the hotel operates a cash free bar, so whatever drinks you have at night in the bar are put on a card which to up your total and gives you a receipt so you can keep checking what you have spent. That accounts for all alcoholic/non alcoholic drinks and coffees that you have had from the bar. Then on the last night you just take your card to reception and you can pay b your euro cash card or your credit card. It's a system I really like as you can easily keep a watch on what you have spent. :thumbup: All wine on the table at night is free of charge. :P
Hope that has answered your questions a bit. If not please feel free to ask on. And wave to room 219 for me. I loved it so much when I went the first time that I asked for it (and got it) last year when I went back. 🙂