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Colonia.md

Take into account

• If you go there for a couple of days try to rent a room with AirBNB, is cheaper than hotels and you'll save a lot using the kitchen. Everything is really expensive in Colonia, so eating in a restaurant can be VERY expensive. I can recommend you a guy who is a developer and has an apartment for rent
• Buy some Uruguayan pesos before going there to have pocket cash. Don't use Argentinean pesos because they will take advantage of you. Don't buy uruguayan pesos in Colonia, do it in Argentina before traveling
• Don't withdraw Uruguayan pesos the ATM, do dollars and then if you need pesos you can sell dollars which will be much cheaper
• Not every business will accept the Payoneer card, but those who do, you need to tell them is a prepaid or debit card. You'll be asked to enter your PIN
• Ferries: Colonia Express is the cheapest, but their service is not as good as Buquebus. If you chose to do Buquebus buy your tickets in Seacat instead of doing it directly in BuqueBus
• If you go for the day only buy the "Ida y Vuelta en el día" which is cheaper
• If you go several days, just buy the ticket to Colonia, and then buy the ticket to buenos Aires in Uruguay. Is cheaper
• For each USD 300 you withdraw at the ATM, UY charges around USD 6 and Payoneer charges around USD 8

The steps to withdraw:

1. Enter the card
2. Input your PIN
3. Chose MasterCard International
4. Chose your Language
5. Chose Credit Account
6. Chose Dollars
7. put the Amount of dollars (only multiplos de 100 and up to 300 dollars)
8. It will tell you that it has a cost of 6 dollars. Accept
9. It may ask you if you want to print the ticket. Chose as you prefer.
10. Profit.
11. Repeat

Banks:

• Don't go to BROU
• Prefer BBVA, Santander and HSBC because their ATM won't eject your card on every withdraw