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04-18-23 07:31 #16593
Posts: 2891Originally Posted by Rocko20 [View Original Post]
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04-18-23 07:31 #16592
Posts: 10Originally Posted by KcDark [View Original Post]
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04-18-23 00:41 #16591
Posts: 50Originally Posted by Zeyto [View Original Post]
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04-17-23 21:41 #16590
Posts: 26Originally Posted by Knowledge [View Original Post]
Bradesco is still the best ATM I've found but 11% below market rate plus $20 in fees is kinda shitty.
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04-17-23 21:14 #16589
Posts: 26So my first day in Brazil was pretty disappointing. My first day after any long flight usually sucks but I has extra reason to be frustrated.
To start GRU is the only airport I've been to where there is nowhere to buy a sim card. It's really sucks being in a new country without any data to use maps or uber. I can still book an uber using the airports wifi but I figure I should grab some cash just in case my card doesn't cooperate (and it doesn't). Turns out the atms are even worse than the atms in Colombia (so far) and the exchange rates plus fees are horrible. The best ATM I can find offers an exchange rate 20% below market rate and a $24 fee. This sucks but I withdraw just enough cash to get me to my hotel in hopes I can find a better ATM elsewhere.
I get to my hotel and my main priority is to still find a sim card, but I discover that 90% of stores are closed on Sunday. The hotel clerk tells me that there is a mall about a 6 min drive away (30 min walk) so I book another Uber using the hotel wifi and go there. I only see luxury clothes stores and no mobile providers so I find the information desk and they tell me that Vivo is on floor 2 and Claro is on floor 3. After being lost for another 15 minutes I learn that in Brazil the ground floor is level 0 not 1. I go to the Vivo store and the staff is all busy. I go to Claro and I see 3 employees helping 2 customers so I take a seat at the desk and wait. After waiting for 5 min I interrupt one of the employees and ask how much longer. He apathetically says "I don't know" so I leave in a very passive aggressive manner. I go back to Vivo and one of the employees is kind enough to tell me I need to take a number and points towards a screen that has no number on display. I don't get it but I take a number and wait. The waiting is slow so I go upstairs to floor 3 (floor 4 in north american) and I order a wrap. Once again I am issued a number so I sit and wait again, and I people-watch to pass the time. I see lots if beautiful women and I also see a 12 year old girl wearing one of those sexy underboob shirts and I am disturbed. I get my wrap and it is decent. I go back downstairs and Vivo is now ready to help me. As soon as they figure out I'm a foreigner they ask for my passport and obviously I don't have it on me because everybody I talked to told me to only carry what I needed in Brazil. I have to go back to my hotel but I have no cash so I need to find another shitty ATM. There are no atms in the mall so I have to across the street. Banco Santander does not accept my debit card so I go across another street to Bradesco. They are offering an exchange rate 11% under market rate and a $20 fee. This also sucks but it's the best so far. I get more cash and I'm finally headed back to my hotel, but no Uber this time since there's no wifi. Turns out taxis are almost twice as expensive as Uber.
By the time I get back to my hotel, pick up my passport, go back to the mall and get my sim card set up, it's already been 8 hours since my plane landed. I'm jet-lagged and tired as fuck and I'm secretly hoping that half the mall staff die in a fire because the firefighters can't tell what floor they're on. I'm too tired and frustrated to do anything else that day.
If anybody here is going to be a first time visitor to Brazil, please learn from my mistakes.
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04-17-23 18:11 #16588
Posts: 3950This is excellent advice. I think this is what confuses guys.
Originally Posted by Steve9696 [View Original Post]
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04-17-23 16:42 #16587
Posts: 50Originally Posted by KcDark [View Original Post]
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04-17-23 15:27 #16586
Posts: 50Originally Posted by Jackob54 [View Original Post]
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04-17-23 15:21 #16585
Posts: 50Originally Posted by FlowState985 [View Original Post]
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04-17-23 14:54 #16584
Posts: 147Originally Posted by BigButtDetecto [View Original Post]
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04-17-23 13:57 #16583
Posts: 445Originally Posted by Zeyto [View Original Post]
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04-17-23 12:37 #16582
Posts: 2672Don't Do conversion
Originally Posted by Knowledge [View Original Post]
Always choose "without conversion" or "withdraw in local currency". Do not choose "with conversion" or "withdraw in USD". These are bad. The non conversion is the option you want. P.S. I found Bradesco to be the most reliable. Both in SP and Rio.
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04-17-23 10:30 #16581
Posts: 10Wingman
Originally Posted by WyattEarp [View Original Post]
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04-17-23 04:36 #16580
Posts: 362Escandallo
Originally Posted by CatBert55 [View Original Post]
First I prefer daytime action and SP can be dangerous at night; second paying a lot of money for a girl is not a guarantee that she will comply with your wishes; third, in Tijuana or Colombia I can have 4 stunners for the price of one at Escandallo. If you have a bad experience with one of them you may still be happy with the 3 others.
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04-17-23 03:52 #16579
Posts: 3950I've been to quite a few countries. I haven't experienced one yet where ATMs don't offer best or at least competitive exchange rates. Add the convenience factor athis is tnd avoiding the risk of traveling with large amounts of cash and I am baffled why the debate about this continues.
Originally Posted by AboveAverage [View Original Post]