dollar vs rand getting better each day

[AwayWeGo]

Week Late & A Rand Short ?

In my usual semi-lazy way, I didn't get round to making an advance Lowveld Lodge levy payment via American Express till this morning. They replied via E-Mail saying the payment -- Three Thousand Rand -- will be processed Monday.

By then the rates may not be so favorable as when this discussion topic popped up.

So it goes.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[cerralee]

I e-mailed both of my South Africa week resorts early this week when the rand was still going strong-had just started going down. I kept waiting for the I did it e-mail and kept checking my cc statement to see if either of the resorts had posted. Two weeks at Mt. Amanzi and 1 week at Silversands. I wanted to pay for the next two years. Today I got the dreaded returned mail notice from both resorts. So I tried to call only to find out that over in SA they have gone for the day and I will have to wait till Monday-darn, a week late and about $200 short!!

 

[MuranoJo]

Yeah, I waited too long, too. It was back to .1079 Rand to USD today. Bummer. Saw it at around 11 but other things got in my way. Still, this is close to when I purchased I believe. I may wait for things to settle a bit and check every day. If it continues to go up, I may jump in.

 

[carl2591]

watching the rand

just hang on and keep watching.. you can get a daily update from
xe.com.. they send me a email once or twice a day with 10-15 exchange rates. just scroll down to south africa rand and see.. look like it has been moving back up some from last week.. when you see 10.50 or so get ready to pull the trigger. remember south africa is 6 hrs ahead of us on the east coast.

have a good one


ps got in at 11.3 one dik and 11 on sudwala.

 

[Carolinian]

Since the US electoin, the dollar has dipped against most currencies. Of course the stock market has, as well.

 

[MuranoJo]

Was able to pay Durban Sands '10 a few days back. Already banked, haven't had time to test it.

 

[cerralee]

Finally managed to get my credit card numbers correctly typed in and not returned for overfull mailboxes in South Africa. It took about three weeks altogether for various and asundry mistakes, mailbox snafus etc.,.

I still feel that I made out pretty good, two peak Mt. Amanzi weeks and an off season Silversands for under $600 total in levis.

I am still going to keep an eye out for falling rand vs. dollar. I probably should have gone ahead and prepaid next year but I didn't.

Lee

 

[MuranoJo]

Lee, I didn't pay beyond '10 for Durban Sands and just paid '09 for 2 Sudwala. Just didn't want to part with the money because I'm not sure we'll be able to travel much anyway.

 

[AwayWeGo]

Just Now Got The Bill.

American Express charged me $317.42 for 3,000 rand.

That was processed on 11-3-2008 & included the exchange fee as of that date.

For foreign currency charges, American Express gets the going rate as of the transaction date + 2%.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​