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Where is the best place to change Australian Dollars when I land in PP?

Airport?

Or just get enough for the ride to hotel, then go to....?

And do the Aussie dollars have to be perfectly in tact like , apprently the Cambos demand for the US Dollars? 9No tears, rips, creases etc)
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The money changers opposite Psar Kandal are my choice.
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AlexJonesCrab wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:14 pm Where is the best place to change Australian Dollars when I land in PP?

Airport?

Or just get enough for the ride to hotel, then go to....?

And do the Aussie dollars have to be perfectly in tact like , apprently the Cambos demand for the US Dollars? 9No tears, rips, creases etc)
Only suckers change money at airports
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DankSinatra wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:15 pm The money changers opposite Psar Kandal are my choice.
Thanks man

Thats the main market in PP?
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Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:16 pm
AlexJonesCrab wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:14 pm Where is the best place to change Australian Dollars when I land in PP?

Airport?

Or just get enough for the ride to hotel, then go to....?

And do the Aussie dollars have to be perfectly in tact like , apprently the Cambos demand for the US Dollars? 9No tears, rips, creases etc)
Only suckers change money at airports
Yeah, been stung before (vietnam), dont want to be stung again......
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Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:16 pm
AlexJonesCrab wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:14 pm Where is the best place to change Australian Dollars when I land in PP?

Airport?

Or just get enough for the ride to hotel, then go to....?

And do the Aussie dollars have to be perfectly in tact like , apprently the Cambos demand for the US Dollars? 9No tears, rips, creases etc)
Only suckers change money at airports
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IMHO, the best ones are on 136 between Central Market and St. 51.
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Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:16 pm
AlexJonesCrab wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:14 pm Where is the best place to change Australian Dollars when I land in PP?

Airport?

Or just get enough for the ride to hotel, then go to....?

And do the Aussie dollars have to be perfectly in tact like , apprently the Cambos demand for the US Dollars? 9No tears, rips, creases etc)
Only suckers change money at airports
Actually the rates at PNH are usually within range of being reasonable, albeit you will always get a better rate at the good places in town.
Last time I was in Europe, I noticed the FX desks have stopped showing their rates. That's because they are so mind-numbingly bad that their best strategy is just to keep quiet and rely on the odd sucker who just plomks his money down and doesn't ask.
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AlexJonesCrab wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:41 pm
DankSinatra wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:15 pm The money changers opposite Psar Kandal are my choice.
Thanks man

Thats the main market in PP?

Kandal Market
https://maps.app.goo.gl/hKKSFvoT4YA4Y6D9A


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AlexJonesCrab wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:41 pm
DankSinatra wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:15 pm The money changers opposite Psar Kandal are my choice.
Thanks man

Thats the main market in PP?
It's not the main market, it's one of the older ones and it's close to Riverside. Psah Kandal means Central Market in Khmer. Not to be confused with Psah (Tom) Thmey which means New (Big) Market in Khmer but is called Central Market in English. :?
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