Mombasa BanksMombasa banks are are well-equipped to meet your most demanding financial needs - for self service banking, wire transfers, cash against credit cards, etc. If you need to withdraw money from your debit or credit card you can, for a fee, do so from any of the 24-hour ATMs of Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), Barclays and Standard Chartered. These machines accept Visa, Visa Electron, MasterCard, Cirrus and Plus cards but before you travel, make sure your card has been enabled for overseas use. The maximum amount you can withdraw from an ATM is usually Ksh 40,000 but may be less depending on the daily limits agreed with your card issuer. 
Most of the branches of Barclays and Standard Chartered also give cash advances of up to Ksh 50,000 against Visa and MasterCard. Banks usually open Monday to Friday 9am to 3pm and all or some Saturdays 9am to 11am.
Should you run out of money while on safari, your family and friends can quickly wire you some money via Western Union – which you can receive at PostBank and KCB branches and many forex bureaus. Alternatively, they could send the money using MoneyGram and you can pick this up at Cooperative Bank branches and many forex bureaus. Even though having money wired from abroad is not cheap, it is certainly easy and instantaneous.
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