Can I survive two weeks on a Wise card or do I still need a brick of cash?

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Quentin Brasseur171 rep2

Hate carrying cash. Hotels take Visa, but hoppers? Tuk-tuks? Is LankaPay / LankaQR a tourist thing or just locals? CBSL was doing a digital-payments roadshow in Jaffna this month??

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Mid/upscale hotels, supermarkets, Dialog, many Colombo restaurants take cards. Village kades, buses, most tuks, small temples: cash. LankaQR / LankaPay is real for locals. Tourists rarely set it up in a week. eZ Cash is more of a local wallet. Always have a day of cash. Card machines here die when the wifi blinks.

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Yashodha Cooray1195 rep1

Wise debit plus LKR from Commercial Bank ATMs was the combo. Card failed twice in Ella when the power blinked.

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Wei Ling Ong154 rep2

We take cash LKR. When I say the card machine is down I mean the wifi is down.

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Asanka Weerakoon1680 rep1

Wise plus a day of small notes. Not going full cashless.

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