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Cash Passport is a pre-paid travel money card. It offers a more convenient and secure way to carry foreign currency than carrying cash or using your own bank card. Effectively you get all the security of using travellers cheques, but without any of the hassles involved in using them.
A Cash Passport can be pre-loaded with your travel budget, and can be used safely and conveniently at millions of ATMs around the world as well as in shops and restaurants, entertainment venues and anywhere else that displays the Visa or Plus logo, or the MasterCard Acceptance Mark (depending on which type of Cash Passport you have). These cards come in seven different currencies which are: UK Pounds, US Dollars, Australian Dollars, New Zealand Dollars, Canadian Dollars and South African Rands.
Because the Cash Passport is not connected to your bank account, and comes with 24/7 global emergency assistance as well as being chip and PIN protected, you can be sure of peace of mind for your money while travelling overseas. Global Emergency Assistance means that if your card is lost or stolen, the 24/7 card services team can arrange for you to receive a replacement card, or provide you with emergency cash up to the balance on your card at the time of loss.
If you are using a MasterCard Cash Passport, you can register your mobile phone number to your card account, then when the balance on your card drops below £100 or the equivalent in the currency you are using, then you will be sent a text alert to let you know.
Cash Passports can be bought from a wide variety of UK outlets including Thomas Cook, Co-operative Travel, Travelex outlets, many building societies and participating supermarkets. Simply visit one of these locations with some valid photo ID and your payment to load up your card, and go. You can also buy your Cash Passport online.
MasterCard Cash Passport cardholders qualify for a number of additional benefits and discounts when they use their card to pay for things. These offers are updated through the year and to be kept up to date with these, make sure you register your details with them. One of the current offers is that you can get 20% off a range of over 3,500 gifts from buyagift.com.
Overall Cash Passports offer you the ability to carry your money securely and conveniently. You can reload your card easily, and spend your money in so many places world wide that this new method of carrying cash abroad has got to be the best around.