Europe

We recommend that you obtain comprehensive travel and medical insurance before travelling.  You should check any exclusions, and that your policy covers you for all the activities you want to undertake.  For more general information see Travel Insurance.

If things do go wrong when you are oversees then this is How We Can Help.

Register with our LOCATE service to tell us when and where you are travelling abroad or where you live abroad so our consular and crisis staff can provide better assistance to you in an emergency.  More information about registering with LOCATE can be found here.

If you are travelling in a group you should keep a careful note of your hotel telephone number and address in case you become detached from the rest of your party.  Also leave your accommodation information and contact details of your travelling companions with a friend or relative at home who you can contact if you get separated from your group.

It is almost impossible to change Scottish or Northern Irish bank notes in the Czech Republic.  Travellers' cheques are easily exchanged in the main cities.  If you are using local Foreign Exchange offices you should check before completing the transaction that you are content with the exchange rate offered and the commission charges.  Rates and commission charges can vary substantially between offices.

 

Since 15 June 2007 new legislation on the controls of cash entering or leaving the EU apply in all Member States.  Any person entering or leaving the EU will have to declare the cash that they are carrying if this amounts to 10,000 euros or more; this includes cheques, travellers' cheques, money orders, etc.  This will not apply to anyone travelling via the EU to a non-EU country, as long as the original journey started outside of the EU nor to those travelling within the EU.