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Originally Posted by Bavarian
Just save some from your last trip to tide you over. Using ATM in Europa gets better rate than in US, but always a charge. Unless you use you European Bank account(s).
We go to Eastern Europe for River cruise on the Donau, not sure if Romania on the Euro. We start in Bucharest, end in Nuremberg. Then stay in our Condo in Bavaria for a month.
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Since you own a condo in Europe, you might check into checking accounts that have debit cards that charge no foreign transaction fees and reimburse any banks' charge for using their atm.
But perhaps you have a foreign bank account. We don't. The only one available to us was HSBC, and they wanted you to invest many thousands of dollars with them to qualify for an account.
We've been doing this with our Schwab checking account since 2006 and have saved a lot of money down through the years.
We do save euros from the previous trip to tide us over, but maybe the OP doesn't travel to Europe frequently.