V-Flyer

Just spotted this on the crown currency exchange website for delivery in March. Looks like a great rate.

So is the longer term view that the dollar will get even weaker than it is now ?

I think so as it has been growing steadily weaker over the last decade at a steady rate and doesnt show any signs of stopping or growing stronger.
Good for British tourists bad for business

I feel it only fair to reciprocate and come to your pleasant land and spend next week...

Originally posted by infrequentflyer
Just spotted this on the crown currency exchange website for delivery in March. Looks like a great rate.

Originally posted by GrinningJackanapes
It's a great rate unless you consider that many Americans are now having to write-off visits to the UK and Euroland due to their diminished buying power,
GJ

My point, while great for the UK tourist it is a bullet in the head for US tourists wanting to visit the UK.

Also..I am getting a rate of 1.93...big difference.

According to Sky News Americans now rate the the UK as the number 26 place they'd visit. That's a fall of 5 places from 21 last year and blamed on the awful exchange rate.

Originally posted by Decker
I feel it only fair to reciprocate and come to your pleasant land and spend next week...

Please let us know, a simple mugging should give me enough pounds for the next trip [}:)]

All joking aside..this continued high exchange rate is making me look at next years trips, I/we had planned to come over for next years RBS..but it's looking like it will be a $5k weekend..which I cannot justify.
Other than that right now we will be in the UK for exactly 36 hours next Nov before flying to Italy, where we will skip the 3-4 days in Rome and head straight for the ship [:#]

I can remember traveling to the states getting less than $1.40 to the pound it didn't stop me.

Originally posted by jaguarpig
I can remember traveling to the states getting less than $1.40 to the pound it didn't stop me.

True, but you also need to remember that the US is cheaper when it comes to certain things like hotels, gas, rental cars, food than the UK/Europe to start with, throw in the exchange rate and places in the Caribbean, South America and Asia start to look a lot more welcoming.

True, but you also need to remember that the US is cheaper when it comes to certain things like hotels, gas, rental cars, food than the UK/Europe to start with

Your lower cost of living should mean extra cash for your holidays then:D

When we first went to South Africa in 94 the rand was 10 to the pound and with the cost of living there at the time it was really like getting 10 quid for every pound.We stopped in the Penthouse suite at the Grace in Rosebank ate and drank everything out of the mini bar had a fantastic meal with the best wine on the list,it cost us about £140 for the night all in.Its not quite as cheap now but still represents good value.

But maybe you're wealthy?

No we just lodged in cheaper hotels
Once had the misfortune to meet wealthy, just as you would imagine a total T***.

Originally posted by jaguarpig

True, but you also need to remember that the US is cheaper when it comes to certain things like hotels, gas, rental cars, food than the UK/Europe to start with

Your lower cost of living should mean extra cash for your holidays then:D

True, but having your fun money cut in half rather than doubling it makes it kind of hard.

Originally posted by jaguarpig
I can remember traveling to the states getting less than $1.40 to the pound it didn't stop me.

Ditto

Originally posted by GrinningJackanapes


Where, pray, will you be visiting our broad nation?

GJ

Regretfully NJ. Rest assured if I was venturing to the West Coast you'd be one of the first to know...I had to invoke Diamond droit de seigneur as my first night Hilton was booked out. Transferring to a Crowne Plaza after night one.

When I moved to CA in Nov 2001, the exchange rate was $1.36 to the £, when I moved back 11 months later it had jumped to $1.57 and cost me a packet in lost money due to the exchange rate !

When we bought the house in Florida in 2004 the exhange rate was $1.36!!

When I used to fly for work to the US in the 80's it was $2.50 -£1