Quote Originally Posted by gerefan2 View Post
Yes the new exchange rate.

But before you all have a coronary this is the actual exchange rate I saw today passing through Stansted Airport on the way to Pattaya. I even asked the lady behind the counter if it was a mistake. The predictable reply was that she didnt make up the rates.

So newbies DONT EVER get your Baht at a UK Airport unless you don’t mind getting about 33% less than the going rate.

Has anyone seen a worse rip off anywhere? Makes the rate at Swampy (another rip off) look positively inviting.

Rant over!

PS I should add that according to XE Currency the going rate right now is 43.8 (although you never actually get that ).
How is that a rip-off ? You are trying to exchange a few GBP for Baht outside of Thailand, of course you are getting the offshore rate, not the onshore rate. Hardly rocket science.

I do agree, the rates at BKK are a rip-off courtesy of the "concession of Siam Commercial bank and Khasihorn, that consistently have the EXACT same rate at BKK, and that rate is consistently about 2 baht to the Euro less than the same two banks in BKK or on their website. Certainly a rip-off, getting less at Stansted is not, you are getting the offshore rate.