Expedia
Expedia is a massive UK based online travel company. Their website offers a huge range of functions and features that are very useful for anyone thinking of traveling abroad. From normal work-a-day useful things that you would expect such as flights, cars, hotels (or any kind of combination thereof) to ideas for activities and destinations. On the site itself you can look-up, book and pay for you flights to Vienna, the hotel that you will stay at in Vienna; some of the excursions that you can go on while there. Expedia want to be a one-stop-shop for individuals seeking to arrange their holidays or travels; or corporations arranging their business travel.
Not just standard flights and charter, as a online specialist they are able to offer exceptionally short dated deals where you can pick up some real bargains.
There is even a feature called the “inspiroscope” that allows you to select keywords from a soothing background of blue skies to try to inspire you to find a destination that is right for you.
Compared to the main pages, and especially compared to the colourful inspiroscope, the currency conversion page is very modest. It is purely functional. It has a simple job to do and does it well.
The converter itself is very easy to use.
Leaving the Units box containing the number 1 will give you the straight exchange rate between most currencies, but if you have a specific amount you'd like to exchange (e.g. 400 USD) enter the number of units (400) in the units box.
Next choose your “currency to convert from” in the drop down list of the same name. Then choose your currency to convert to using the 2nd drop down list.
Finally click “display the results” to see the conversion rates.
The results do not display the cross rates, only the exchange rate from-and-to as requested, not the inverse. It is worth noting that the exchange rates quoted are the approximate tourist rates you can expect to receive.
None of the currencies listed, or their results are displayed along with the 3 letter international currency code.
The currencies were able to convert from major to minor, minor to major and even minor to minor, the only problem being when anything was converted into Angolan New Kwanzas, which resulted in an error on the day of the test.
Rating (out of 5 stars):
- 4 Stars
Link: http://www.expedia.co.uk/daily/resources/currency/default.aspx