In Reply to: For you or me Gary... posted by skiggy on Wednesday, 25. February 2009 at 08:32 Bali Time:
Rather travel to Bali than spend time travelling to the bank!
Your thought about first timers is a good comment though and I think probably good advice, although if they were to give no change from a $50 you aren't really much out of pocket as it is currently costing A$47 to purchase US$25 through the Commonwealth Bank (who I usually find most competitive and use before travel to Vietnam etc.) and A$87 for US$50 (A$41.50 each).
Having said all that, I am using US$ in March for VOA because I have some.
Cheers,
David