Changing Money
Standard banking hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm or 5pm. Some close at midday (noon/12.30pm-2/2.30pm); some are open on Saturday 9am to noon. All are closed on Sunday and public holidays. They will have a notice on the door if they do currency exchange. Rates and commission vary from bank to bank, so it's worth shopping around; the usual procedure is a 1-2 percent commission on travellers' cheques and a flat-rate charge on cash (a 30F/?4.58 charge for changing 200F/?30.50 is not uncommon). Be wary of banks claiming to charge no commission at all; often they are merely adjusting the exchange rate to their own advantage. There are money-exchange counters ( bureaux de change ) at all the French airports and at train stations of big cities, with usually one or two in town centres as well, often keeping much longer hours than the high-street banks. You'll also find automatic exchange machines at airports and train stations and outside many money exchange bureaux. They accept GBP10 and GBP20 notes as well as dollars and other European currency notes, but offer a very poor rate of exchange.
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