IRAN: How much money to take with me?

[derJosh]

Hi everyone!

I have a 30 day visa, but intend to stay about 3 weeks - depends on how much I like it. How much money (US Dollar) would you take with you, to be able to pay for food, gas, accomodation (nothing fancy, but no sh*thole )

I intend to ride through to Bandar Babas for the ferry to Dubai with stops along the road.

Thanks
Josh

[derJosh]

Really, nobody? :/

[WolfgangK1]

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WolfgangK1

[TWINE.bike]

Are you in Iran already? I have the same plan and question


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[Atta]

I would also be interested in other peoples opinion in this. I am thinking a combination of USD and Euro would be good. Any experiences?

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[van2wheels]

I was there in May/June, stayed about 3 weeks. I spent around 10-15 € / day for food, fuel and museums etc. It heavily depends on the type of accomodation you like. So 30-40 € / day is more than enough.
Van

[Atta]

Thanks, that gives me a rough estimate! Cheers, Martin


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[wheel story]

Originally Posted by derJosh

Hi everyone!

I have a 30 day visa, but intend to stay about 3 weeks - depends on how much I like it. How much money (US Dollar) would you take with you, to be able to pay for food, gas, accomodation (nothing fancy, but no sh*thole )

I intend to ride through to Bandar Babas for the ferry to Dubai with stops along the road.

Thanks
Josh

hi, currently we are in Tehran already, stay in a hostel in north side, cheap and good.

we will pick our bike from Bandar abbas and ride along to Turkey.

feel free to email me wheelstoryindonesia@gmail.com

cheers,

[daviddgz]

Hi all, I plan to take some cash for Iran, but is it possible to get money with a Visa debit card from ATMs in Iran? and are there ATMs in small cities? I want to avoid huge cities if possible.

Thanks!

[WolfgangK1]

Hello, david
I travelled in November in Iran and it was not possible to to take money with visa or mastercad from the ATM. there is something going on with these things, but I heard nothing, that it changes until now.
Regards
WolfgangK1

[jamesallen]

Originally Posted by derJosh

Hi everyone!

I have a 30 day visa, but intend to stay about 3 weeks - depends on how much I like it. How much money (US Dollar) would you take with you, to be able to pay for food, gas, accomodation (nothing fancy, but no sh*thole )

I intend to ride through to Bandar Babas for the ferry to Dubai with stops along the road.

Thanks
Josh

The big determiner will be accommodation. My experience is 6 years old but I expect it is still about right.

1) definitely no easy cash withdrawals in the country
2) if in doubt take too much
3) Iran is a really friendly and safe country in my opinion. I'd be more worried admit theft in pretty much every European country than in Iran
4) dollars are much better than euros (but this could have changed)
5) when i went petrol had to be purchased at the tourist rate. Thus was about 10 times the locals price but still only a third of the European price
6) I changed $80 and became a local millionaire and the money was crammed into a big envelope. I genuinely would have been better off with a shoe box to put it all in
7) loads of places will allow you to pay straight out in dollars without a painful exchange rate
8) enjoy Iran. It's an interesting place with lovely friendly people, including the officials and police!!

Hope that's useful. Anyone else please correct me if anything has change in the last few years

[Adventurism]

I'm in Iran now, most of jamesallens points are correct.

I think you can also safely take Euros, but if you are going to Central Asia afterwards, better take US Dollars.

I don't think they are doing the tourist petrol thing anymore. 95 octane petrol, called super, is 1200 toman per liter at the moment. Same price at every pump, although not all stations have it.

There is a weird thing here in Iran where everybody tells you the price in Toman, where as your bills will say Rials. Just multiply the Toman by 10 (add an extra 0) and you get the price in rials. So 1 liter is about €0,34

If you want to go cheap, consider couchsurfing in Iran, they love it here! This means free accomodation and most of the time free food, because they just love to be hospitable people. If you take the time to talk to people you can also expect to be invited to peoples homes and be stuffed before you are allowed to leave.

Otherwise, most hostels will charge $10 - $15 a night including breakfast. Hope this helps.

Just the emphasize, still no way of getting money out of an ATM in Iran, so take what you need before crossing the border!

[daviddgz]

Thank you!

How safe would you say it is to carry money for a month in your bag?

[jamesallen]

Originally Posted by daviddgz

Thank you!

How safe would you say it is to carry money for a month in your bag?

I'd seriously say Iran is one of the least likely places to have a problem with theft. Two questions you need to ask yourself;
How much money do I need? - You have to carry as much as you need given the ATM / card issues.
How much money would you feel carrying around in your home country? Iran will be just as safe

Hope that helps

p.s. good call on the unusual toman / rial pricing

[kolf]

To add an actual sum to all the good points made above, I travelled Iran 2 years ago Turkey>UAE for 1 month and took 1500 euros, stayed in a mix of hotels/hostels/guesthouses/couchsurfing.
I think I exited with close to 500 euros but I'd say 1500 is a good bet to be on the safe side.
You can't get money at an atm but some carpet traders in the bigger bazaars have visa machines and will withdraw for you for a small fee. Was offered a few times but never tried though.

PS: the ferry is quite cheap in Iran but they charge you additional in UAE and in total it's quite expensive. I think between 3-400 eur total.

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