Currency for Turkey?

[oblio]

There seems to be a welter of knowledge about Turkey on here so...

- Lira - Take some but buy there as its cheaper?

- Use of Credit Cards - readily accepted (Visa and/or MasterCard)?

- Any other currencies (e.g. US$)?

We are staying in Kalkan and will be visiting local sights/towns etc

cheers

[Mark.]

Options 1 and 2, I believe the rate of exchange there is really good at the moment, although when we went a couple of years back we just took all ours from the UK - saved having to worry about changing it there and the differential was negligible really.

[LooneyTunes]

USD widely accepted too.

[grumpyscot]

We go to Turkey regularly, and have used almost everything! Left-over USD & Euros, Sterling, Debit & Credit Cards.

We find we get a much better exchange rate for paper money than we get in the UK. Of course, we take English money and not Scottish, even though we once get a better exchange rate for Scottish notes! Tend not to use debit cards as the dreaded Halifax charge so much to use them.

[BoostMonkey]

Take sterling and change it in the hotel, rate last week was 2.777, much better than in the UK.