Money

Exchanging Dollars for Euros

"How do we get our spending money to Deutschland?"

The best way is to take some Euros in cash and also bring an ATM card. You can use Visa and Mastercard ATM (debit) cards in Germany if you have a four digit PIN number.

Don't forget to tell you bank that you are going to Europe, sometimes they will block a card if it suddenly appears in Europe (fraud alert). Credit cards in Europe (like all new cards in America starting in 2015) need to have an actual, physical chip in the card, not just a magnetic strip.

Germans still use cash for all normal, daily transactions, especially if the total purchase is under €20 (or about $25). Cash is best for most things. As far as travelers checks, well, those don't exist anymore.