Let’s talk about the basics of currency in Serbia! The first thing to know of course is the name, Serbian Dinar.
If your planning a trip to Serbia and want to use the native currency, be aware you can’t get the Serbian Dinar before you travel and you can’t take it home either. It is a closed currency.
Upon arrival at the airport, once you’ve cleared security & retrieved your luggage, you will find many ATM’s where you can get money out. At the time of writing (February 2020) it’s currently £1 to 139.52 dinar.
We stayed for 24 hours and took out approximately 9,000 dinars in cash. That equates to around £65 at the current rate. Taxi fares used the majority of this cash.
We also used our Monzo card for other purchases. You can read about Monzo here.
One thing to note however, is that quite a few places will allow you to pay in Euros as well as Dinar, but you will generally find that you pay less when you pay with the Serbian Dinar than when you pay with euros. Personally, we found Serbia in general wasn’t as cheap as we expected it to be, especially in the aiport. That said, it is much cheaper than Zurich, which you can read about here.
We used all of our currency and a little more on our cards during the trip. Even though it was a short trip and not much sightseeing was done, excluding flights we spent around £80 each including hotel, taxis, food & drink.
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