Greece Travel Guía

Traveler's checks
The traveler's Checks are accepted by most of places but you will have a hard time paying or changing the enormous denominations of traveler's checks or he still will charge. They are treated with the suspicion by sellers, and some might not accept them. Although, changing them into a bank it is not any problem. Nevertheless, they recommend you not to take its personal checks because they extensively are not accepted in Greece, then not to assume that you can use them unless you have verified with the establishment before the hand.

Greece works on a diverse capitalist economy. The national occupation economic pincipal principally is centred on the tourism, the shipment (transport), the banking and finance, manufacture and construction and sectors of telecommunications while the country serves like the regional business bucket for several of the multinational main world leader coporations. Greece enjoys a high standard of living, aligning (classifying) 24 on the Index of Development Human and 2006 22 during 2005 of the Economist the index of world quality - de-vida and this takes the average income as a head that have been estimated in 23,518 dollars for the year 2006.

Expenses
Greece is not so much expensive as other country European. Nevertheless, the days when Greece is connected to the cheapest destinations in Europe. For this reason, the prices change up and down. To most of islands a daily budget for person of 23-27 will obtain the basic accommodation, the breakfast, the lunch of picnic, a short ship or the trajectory in bus and a simple meal of the evening, like one of a couple.

Money
The monetary unit of Greece is the euro (€), which replaced the drachma in January, 2002. No other currency is accepted and it is the best thing to change dollars or another currency into a bank. The changes of currency are common especially in bigger cities and in any tourist area. In addition to the strong currency, they also accept traveler's checks. There are also the machines of change of currency automated in some areas of the country, especially in the airport of Athens. The National Bank of Greece NBG (Ethnikí Trápeza Elládos), the biggest commercial bank of the country, also will change euros for some currencies, as in the EU the Dollar and the British pound sterling, sometimes there is in better tariffs than changes of currency. Other commercial banks, since the Bank Alpha also they can change the currency, but only for clients who support account.

The exchange rates are all equal ones during the course of the country and you change the money into a bank or official shop of change where you will obtain the best career tariffs. The Banks are sure of being opened from Monday until Friday, 08:00am-13:00pm. This goes without saying that if you come from any European Union country you would not have to worry about the change of any money since the Euro is the common currency of the European Union.

Credit cards
The Credit cards extensively are accepted. Almost all the articles about high ticket of sale of shops take the habitual credit cards, as it does the hotels and restaurants, but many shops in small cities do not do. The signs in general are fixed on the door of every shop. It would be the best thing to verify with the establishment before you do its buys. Most of credit cards loads the fees (approximately 3 %) for the change of currency, which means that you always use its credit card in Greece (to pay in the Euro) you add these fees at the cost of the goods and services. Verify with its credit car corporation before the operations.