So this may be a silly question?Coming to Vietnam for the first time and trying to understand the money. There are several bank notesCoins not really in circulationIf you pay for something is it rounded up or do they give change I’m a bit confused. Any input helpful thank you
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Take off the last 4 numbers and divide by 3 gets a rough translation to GBP. You can often use cards and they add on 3%
They will give you change. I usually round it up and give people the small money. For example, if something costs 48,000 copper (dong), I’d just give them 50,000. The 2000 extra is about 8 cents. I was not gonna worry about it.
Some places for me were rounding it up and not giving change. It happened quite a lot. Then I started rounding up and said this is the nearest I have, and attitudes changed.
Where are you coming from? No change, 500,000 is basically an American 20.00, I just divide to get the smaller bills. Not counting every penny.
Use your phone 📱 calculator and switch to “ convert “
Lots of coins but no change.
Everything will have a price higher than 1000 dong. It will be a round, even number. They don’t like to use 100, 200, 500 currency anymore.
Yes it is a silly question
If you have an iphone use the calculator, open calculator app, press on the calculator pic on the top right hand side, press convert, press the bottom numbers and choose country and that will convert for you
There’s really nothing to round. If you buy something for 109,000 and given them 150,000, you’ll get 41,000 change.