atm withdarawal

I doubt you'll get an answer, she wouldn't answer mine either. I suspect she has decamped, permanently. Buggered if I know why people post links to their blogs and then get bent out of shape when someone actually reads them. In this case it was mostly palpable nonsense of the sort you see repeated second or third hand on travel forums. I doubt she's spent more than a week in the country and if she has, she must have lived in a bubble.

Yeah, everybody would be best just stay at home, don't travel, in fact don't go out into your street, live your life on facebook.

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I recently needed to withdraw a fair amount of cash from Brazilian ATMs and I thought that this info could help someone else even if it's too late for the OP.

I tried all the different ATMs I could find and found that Santander was the best for me. Santander allows me to withdraw a maximum of R$1500 at a time and I can withdraw multiple times in a day up to my home bank's daily limit. They impose an additional fee of R$12 per transaction which is better than the R$24 charged by others like 24horas and Banco do Brasil.

In practice this allowed me to withdraw R$12 000 in one notedly risky visit to an ATM. These charges seem the same for VISA and Mastercards. My cards are issued in South Africa so I don't know if that makes a difference.

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