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Best Credit Card for "backup" when travelling

  • 13-06-2016 3:33pm
    #1
    thesto
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭


    Hi there,

    I've never had a credit card before - have avoided getting one until now. At the end of the year I will be travelling in India, SE Asia and Australia.

    Earlier this year I was in Russia and had my AIB Visa Debit card get locked due to a faulty POS device. Luckily I was with a friend who could lend me money.

    I do not want the same thing to happen again and would like to get a credit card that I can use in emergency situations.

    I've been looking at the AIB Click credit card with it's low APR... what else should I be considering? Ideally I will never use the card but want to have the facility if needs be!

    Thanks for any advice


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  • #2
    thesto
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭thesto


    Pretty much what I expected, thank you for the advice!


  • #3
    JTMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭JTMan


    thesto wrote: »
    Hi there,

    I've never had a credit card before - have avoided getting one until now. At the end of the year I will be travelling in India, SE Asia and Australia.

    Earlier this year I was in Russia and had my AIB Visa Debit card get locked due to a faulty POS device. Luckily I was with a friend who could lend me money.

    I do not want the same thing to happen again and would like to get a credit card that I can use in emergency situations.

    I've been looking at the AIB Click credit card with it's low APR... what else should I be considering? Ideally I will never use the card but want to have the facility if needs be!

    Thanks for any advice

    Get a Revolut card (it offers the best FX rate out there) and use it as your primary card. Run a search for Revolut to see other threads out there on it.

    You can keep the AIB card as back up.


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