Tunisia Travel Forum

where is the best place to exchange money, the cheap way?
cheapest way to phone home,bearing in mind im in tunisia for 2 weeks,so i dont want to be paying alot?
do you have any tips on how to spend the days with a 5 year old and a 8 month old baby. any tips would be most appreciated.
thank you
going in august

You will not be able to import Tunisian dinars, so you should change your money at the airport. There is a place right in the baggage hall and it is efficient and quick. The exchange rates will not vary much, if at all, from place to place. You will have to exchange your dinars for other currency upon your departure, as you a) are not allowed to export dinars and b) you won't be able to exchange them outside of Tunisia. If you tell us where you want to phone home to, then perhaps you will get a specific response. With a 5 year old and a baby you must be very careful of their exposure to the sun - go with lots of sun cream to put on all the time, sun hats and so on.

thankyou for your reply ill be ringing back home to the uk, middlesbrough

Cheapest mobile calls are to buy a Tunisian sim card when you arrive.
Calls to UK will cost around 1TD per minute about 45p, far cheaper than UK rates of £1.35 per min.
When buying top-up's you pay extra (ie 20TD will cost a little more) but that is just the way it is done. Due to Tunisians not having large sums of money many outlets will just top the phone electronically (ie send you the mins from there donar phone). Do make sure that your pone is unlocked before you go though. When you return home either sell the card on ebay etc, or bring some top-up cards and add 5TD every 6 months so that it is not switched off. I use my card each year that I go.
If your phone is too new to unlock cheaply get hold of an older 2nd-hand one, O2 do not lock their cheaper tariff phones, so they'll accept the Tunisiana card. Not all phones accept the text settings automatically, if you want to send text you need to check the setting, they should be able to do that for you when you buy the sim.