Any cash machine in central London which can dispense £5?

I'm sure travellers to the United Kingdom carrying an overseas/non-UK debit card can relate to this question.

Most cash machines start dispensing starting from £10 and in multiples of £10. That means if are just about to leave the United Kingdom and you just need £2-3, you will not only have to leave with £7-8 worth of heavy coins, but you also incur the unnecessary non-UK debit card exchange rates and foreign ATM charges for those unwanted £7-8. Are there cash machines in central London / Tube Zone 1 area which can dispense a crisp £5 note?

Best Answer

Got it. Yes, there are, and there's even a handy website:

Link's ATM locator

which, when you click one on the map, will tell you if it supports 5 quid notes or not.

Checking the one I remember, it shows that indeed, the BT phone/ATM kiosk opposite Waterloo station entrance (address: Waterloo road, London, SE1 7LY) still dispenses 5 quid notes. :D

I'm sure others will reveal themselves with some searching, as this several year old article shows there were still 1400+ ATMs around then that dispensed them.

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Can you get 5 notes from a cash machine?

Less than 3% of the 67,000 cash machines in the UK let customers take a fiver out, but that could soon change. There is now a push to get more banks to dispense fivers 'to stop embarrassing customers' who do not have much money in their account.

Can you get 5 out of an ATM UK?

Ron Delnevo, chief executive of the ATM Industry Association revealed to Metro: "There are now only 3,000 or 4,000 out of 67,000 in the country that dispense fivers." That's a minute percentage of cashpoints across the UK, and something Ron is keep to change.

Which ATM dispense $5?

Many banks have upgraded their ATMs to give out lower and higher denominations. For example, Chase and PNC have a new generation of ATMs that dispense bills as low as $1 and $5.

What ATMs do increments of 5?

Chase and PNC have both been launching ATMs that churn out exact change to the dollar, allowing customers to withdraw denominations as low as $1 and $5.

Collecting Money From My 5 Vending Machines (IN THE UK)

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