Paphos Non-smoking Hotels

The optimum way to pay for goods and services is national currency which should better be changed prior to a journey. A foreign currency may be denied in stores and restaurants or it may be accepted at a rather unprofitable rate.

Foreign guests can exchange currency in one of local banks or private currency exchange offices as well as by means of travel bureaus and post offices. Setting off to a bank to exchange currency one should have a passport. Tourists should also keep in mind that a transaction fee which equals 1 – 2% of a cost of a deal will be charged. .

A working schedule of public offices may vary depending on the part of the year. One should specify it in advance in a hotel or in a tourist information center. As a rule the public offices start working not later than at 8:30 in the morning and serve customers till 13:00. Monday is considered to be a prolonged working day.

Setting off to a shopping tour or to a restaurant one should not take large denomination notes (higher than 100 Euro). In small scale establishments which have no opportunity to check the originality of such notes these will be denied. The notes of 100 and 200 denomination are most often counterfeited. Those tourists looking to make purchases in small shops and at the open markets of the city should have enough of change.
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