Emergency Holiday Money
Money when and where you really need it
Your son is backpacking through deepest Asia. With his last few pennies he calls you to explain that his bag was stolen and he doesn’t have any money or cards and no way to reach the nearest British Consulate. How do you help from thousands of miles away?
Or maybe you’re on a family holiday to Florida, and having lost your wallet means the kids can’t go to the theme park until the bank has cancelled and replaced your cards.
These are just a couple of circumstances in which Western Union is probably the last thing on your mind, when really it should be the first thing you think of. What other way of sending money allows your emergency contact to call free, pay on the phone by debit or credit card, and have your receiver pick up the money within minutes from a local business?
Because Western Union is the worlds most trusted money transfer operator, with the largest number of international locations, it is the natural choice for sending money in an emergency.
Western Union has over 230,000 locations worldwide from where customers can send money or pick up money. The service also covers 200+ countries and territories. Once you know about the service you’ll start seeing Western Union all over the place, and understand why we can claim to have such extensive coverage.
Whether on a beach holiday or a backpacking adventure, just make sure you give someone at home your emergency information before leaving, including the Western Union free phone number, 0800 833 833 or website www.ukmoneytransfer.com which has instructions on how to send money abroad in minutes.
The advantages of our service in an emergency are clear:
- The money arrives in minutes
- The money can be picked up from any of 230,000 Western Union locations, anywhere in the world
- You can send money 24 hours a day by paying on the phone with your debit or credit card
- The cost of sending the money is competitive. Using the Money in Minutes service costs just £14 for sending up to £100.
- If your recipient can wait 24 hours, the costs are even cheaper, depending on what country you wish to send to
- Western Union has been around for more than 150 years. It has developed a trusted reputation over the years for offering highly secure, fast and convenient money transfers.
Other smaller money transfer operators include Moneygram, ChequePoint & Travelex, along with several nationality specific companies and banks. The only drawback to using these services in an emergency is that they have considerably fewer locations worldwide and these are usually in major cities.
