My wonder around the world put me back to Poland for a short period of time before moving on. I arrived to Katowice and as a frequent traveler I have spotted a very bad practice which takes place at the airport.
I want just warn you all who want to exchange money over there. And I know you might say that "oh yeah no big deal, airports always rip you off when you exchange the currency" but I have to say that what I have seen is just ridiculous!
Current exchange rate is around 4.17 and usually you can expect about 5% markup to buy and sell. I was offered to buy polish zloty for 3.26 !!! its around 25% off the average market price!!! It is a plain rip off!!
And the best thing is that, you can easily negotiate much much higher rate, but if you don't ask you wont get it!
Now when I think about it, we had European Championship hosted in the country and few millions football fans flew through polish airports. Wondering now how many of them were ripped off like that.
So useful tip - check the currency rate before you go and make sure you get fair amount of PLN for your dollars and euros! Because we (Polish) are cheeky bastards!
