exchange Canadian Coins on ship??

I am a first time cruiser who will be on the Jewel of the Seas, RCI, for the New England/Canada cruise. My parents neighbors have given me approx. $100 in Canadian Quarters that they have been saving in case they ever went to Canada (now due to their health, they will not be traveling). I was wondering if I wrap the quarters up in $10 rolls and tote them with me, if I will be able to Even exchange them on the cruise ship for Canadian paper money to use in Port... I sure don't want to lug around all those quarters or pester the merchants with all my change ! Any ideas and help , are most graciously appreciated ....

You cannot exchange coins onboard or anywhere else. One rule of thumb with currency is that, in almost all cases, nobody will take coins.

Hank

Coins are tough to get rid. Possibly a bank once you are in Canada.

You can buy something with them, if a store will agree to take them all, or you can take them to a canadian bank if you want to spend your time on shore this way.

The currency of RCI is US dollars, they don't carry Canadian dollars.

EuroCoin Guy, you just broke the CC rules. No advertising or soliciting on CC. Sorry

Go to a Canadian Bank on you first stop and exchange the coins for bills easily.

Thank you everyone for your help so far.. I did find this on RCI's information page, so looks like I could exchange it for cash at the Guest Relations Desk or for chips in casino? Is this how you would read it? :confused::

Foreign Currency and Travelers Checks:

• Guests cannot exchange more than USD $1000 in travelers checks and foreign currency per day.
  
• Guests can only exchange foreign currency and travelers checks for cash at the Guest Relations or Guest Services Desk.
  
• Guests can only exchange foreign currency and travelers checks for chips and tokens in the Casino.
  

It is HIGHLY unlikely they will accept all your coins.

Whenever we returned from foreign travel, we exchanged our 'left over' paper money but always were told to keep our coins as souvenirs.

Sorry they won't be able to enjoy using their coins. Must have taken them years to save up so many.

Take your rolled coins to any bank in any port in Canada and you will have no problem in exchanging them for Canadian notes....however we have long since moved away from $1 and $2 and have coins instead.

Never known a cruise ship to accept coins other than the current onboard currency, i.e. $ or €.

Also shops in Canada are not obliged to accept coins other than the following limits (legal tender):

As outlined in the Currency Act (Canada), there is a limit the value of a transaction for which you can use only coins. [9] A payment in coins is legal tender for no more than the following amounts for the following denominations of coins:

1. forty dollars if the denomination is two dollars or greater but does not exceed ten dollars;
   
2. twenty-five dollars if the denomination is one dollar;
   
3. ten dollars if the denomination is ten cents or greater but less than one dollar;
   
4. five dollars if the denomination is five cents; and
   
5. twenty-five cents if the denomination is one cent.
   

Ron

I know you said you wanted to change these into Canadian paper money, but if you don't want to visit a bank, why not take the easiest route and exchange them at the airport into USD? Then you could give these nice people a surprise when you return their money to them.

You would have to pay an exchange rate but can't the bank with whom you have a relationship do it for you here at home? They can order money for you and take your coins. I think one of my local banks would provide me 'that service'. Do you know a 'branch manager'?

We will be flying into Boston, I had not thought about the airport possibly being able to exchange it, great thought thank you! I did talk to my local bank (credit union) and they will not exchange it.. the best they could recommend was contacting a local travel agency to see if they would exchange it... I did - and they won't ....

No US bank will accept another countries coins in exchange for US or Canadian currency just as no Canadian bank will accept another countries coins in exchange for Canadian or another countries currency. The reason is the bank has no economical method to get the coins back to the country of origin and exchange them for (in your case) US currency.

You will notice in an above reference to exchanging money on board the term “currency” is used, this would mean paper money, not coins.

The only suggestion I can offer would be to take the coins to a Canadian bank and exchange then for currency, be it Canadian, US or whatever.

And I only have 32 years in the Canadian banking industry so I think my advice is probably the best you’re going to get.:)

Since you live in Michigan, have you considered a little cross-border trip into Canada to visit the nearest bank. If you are flying do you want to lug all those coins along?

Guests can only exchange foreign currency and travelers checks for cash at the Guest Relations or Guest Services Desk.

This means, foreign PAPER bills can be exchanged. Not coins.

Have you considered finding a Canadian passenger on the cruise roll call and making arrangements with them to exchange the coins into bills on board?

Thank you and Thank you :) to all of you who have offered so many great ideas~ ! I have found 2 solutions.. I located the HSBC Bank of Canada who will be on our first port stop in Saint John and are located not too far from port who stated they would be happy to take the coins. I also contacted our first adventure and they also stated they would take the coins as payment for our excursion. Yeah ! :D

All is well that ends well

When they say "foreign currancy" -- thay mean bills -- not coins.

You will need to go to a Canadian Bank.

Thanks for sharing with us your solution.

Hope you have a great cruise.

Never known a cruise ship to accept coins other than the current onboard currency, i.e. $ or €.

 

Also shops in Canada are not obliged to accept coins other than the following limits (legal tender):

 

As outlined in the Currency Act (Canada), there is a limit the value of a transaction for which you can use only coins. [9] A payment in coins is legal tender for no more than the following amounts for the following denominations of coins:

1. forty dollars if the denomination is two dollars or greater but does not exceed ten dollars;
   
2. twenty-five dollars if the denomination is one dollar;
   
3. ten dollars if the denomination is ten cents or greater but less than one dollar;
   
4. five dollars if the denomination is five cents; and
   
5. twenty-five cents if the denomination is one cent.
   

Ron

This is incorrect. I worked in banks, shops and restaurants in Canada for years and we never turned away someone who paid in coins. People used to pay for lunch with rolls of quarters. Heck, I recall paying for groceries with $70 worth of quarters!

Banks may want to see some ID in the event that your roll of nickles has foreign coins or buttons ;).