Hi Julie,
I used Mondo for pretty much everything in Sri Lanka for three weeks. Tips:
- I used Commercial Bank ATMs with no problems (they’re blue and yellow)
- ATMs have a daily limit of 40,000 rupees
- Hotels and more sophisticated restaurants all took cards
- Make sure you are being charged in the local currency, not GBP when you are paying for anything, otherwise you will be ripped off on the rate (this only happened to me once, but I knew immediately thanks to notifications and made them refund it and do it again!)
- I topped up my Mondo card while I was there rather than before I went - all of our hotels had good enough wifi
- Some hotels may ask for a credit card to hold a deposit on - most of the time Mondo works with this (just ignore the charge which will be refunded later) but sometimes I had to use a proper credit card for this purpose and then switch to Mondo to pay our bill later
That’s it - pretty easy to be honest. Sri Lanka is awesome - enjoy!
Phil