ANZ Travel Money Guide

Travel cards

The ANZ Travel Card is no longer available. Customers were able to load the card with money online using BPAY for a 0% fee and exchange the money to nine foreign currencies at a fixed rate:

Traveller's Cheques

ANZ sells American Express traveller's cheques. Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, British pounds, euros, Japanese yen and US dollars are available. You can order traveller's cheques online through ANZ internet banking or over the phone, at the ANZ branches at Sydney and Melbourne international airports and at ANZ branches. Orders over $1,000 need to be arranged in advance. Traveller's cheques are a very safe way of carrying money overseas. Only you can cash your cheques and they can be replaced if they're lost or stolen. Fewer places accept traveller's cheques nowadays, but you can find out about traveller's cheque acceptance by reading our travel money location guides.

Currency exchange

Customs, baggage claim and queues, arriving in a foreign country can be tiring enough without adding currency exchange to the list of things to do when you land. ANZ sell more than 50 international currencies at branches and foreign exchange centres, ANZ also have ATMs which dispense major currencies.

• Foreign exchange ATMs. ANZ provides foreign exchange ATMs in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney international airports. For a $4 flat fee, you can withdraw US$50, €50, NZ$50 notes and £20 notes. Non-ANZ customers may also incur a charge from their own bank.

• ANZ Foreign exchange centres. ANZ has branches in Sydney and Melbourne international airports and Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane city centres. You can purchase a travel card and buy and sell over 50 different international currencies.

• ANZ Cash Packs. ANZ Cash Packs give you a bunch of different banknotes. For example you can buy a US dollar Cash Pack and get 7 US $50 notes, 4 $20 notes, 3 $5s and 5 $1s. ANZ Cash Packs are available in US dollars, euros, pounds, New Zealand dollars, Thai baht and Chinese Renminbi. Cash Packs cost $5 on top of the value of the foreign currency as set by ANZ. The $5 fee is waived if you're an ANZ customer or if you purchase a travel card or travel insurance at the same time. Cash Packs are available from ANZ branches and foreign exchange centres. If you want to buy a cash pack with more than $1,000, you'll need to visit an ANZ foreign exchange centre.

Travel insurance

ANZ Travel Insurance covers you for medical and dental expenses, the cost of replacing luggage and personal items if lost or damaged, cancellation of travel plans, personal liability and more. This policy also provides a snow sports package. ANZ also provide a complimentary insurance policy when prepaid travel expenses are charged to premium ANZ credit cards such as the ANZ Rewards Black and Platinum credit cards.

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ANZ Travel Money Frequently asked questions

• How long does it take to get an ANZ Travel Card?

  You can get a card on the spot from an ANZ foreign exchange centre at Sydney and Melbourne airports or from any of the other ANZ foreign exchange centres. If you order an ANZ Travel Card on the spot from an ANZ foreign exchange centre the card will not have your name on the front. You can also order this card online. The card will be ready after five business days and it will arrive with your name on it.

• What are the ANZ Travel Card limits?

  Cash withdrawal limit in 24 hours	AUD$3,000
  Over the counter purchase limit in 24 hours	AUD$6,000
  Minimum load on purchase	AUD$200
  Maximum load per year	AUD$50,000
  Maximum balance on the card at any one time.	NZD$20,000 USD $15,000 £8,000 GBP €12,000 EUR HKD$110,000 CAD$17,000

• How can I load more than one currency on the card at a time?

  You can load multiple currencies on the card at the same time at an ANZ foreign exchange centre. Reloading using BPAY or at Australia Post will credit the first currency in the ANZ Travel Card default currency order.

• What's the default currency order?

  Funds will be credited in Australian dollars unless you change the default currency order. You can do this by calling ANZ Travel Card customer service. The currency order is also important if you spend and you don't have enough of a particular currency to pay for the transaction, the next currency will be used and so on. Default currency order:

  1. Australian Dollars 2. United States Dollars 3. Great British Pounds 4. Euros 5. New Zealand Dollars

  6. Canadian Dollars 7. Hong Kong Dollars 8. Singapore Dollars 9. Thai Baht 10. Japanese Yen

• What are the credit card complimentary insurance activation requirements?

  If you have the ANZ Platinum, Low Rate Platinum, Rewards Platinum, Rewards Black, Frequent Flyer Platinum or Frequent Flyer Black credit card, you can get complimentary international travel insurance when you meet these eligibility requirements:

  • You're an Australian resident
  • You're 80 years or younger
  • You purchased at least $250 of your prepaid travel costs using your eligible ANZ credit card
  • You have a return ticket

  Compare ANZ credit cards here If you're an ANZ customer, you can make a payment to an international bank account from an ANZ branch or using the online banking Pay Anyone feature. You'll need information about the person getting the money, like their bank account number, the SWIFT code, BIC, IBAN, sort codes and so on. The information requirements vary from country to country. ANZ charge a flat fee of $18 for online transfers and $32 for transfers from a branch and mobile banking. Compare companies you can use to send money overseas.

  Leftover money can be kept for further trips or the card can be closed and your money redeemed.