Money, cards and ATMs in Lithuania

The currency

• Lithuania uses the euro and has since 2015 - the last of the three Baltic states to adopt it. The litas is gone.

Cards and cash

• Cards work nearly everywhere and contactless is standard, including on public transport.
• Carry a little cash for markets, small rural shops and the Curonian Spit ferry booths.
• Lithuania is a fintech hub and card acceptance is better than the country's income levels would suggest.

ATMs

• Always refuse the machine's offer to charge you in your own currency. Dynamic currency conversion costs several per cent every time.
• Use bank ATMs - Swedbank, SEB, Luminor - rather than independent machines in tourist areas.

Prices

• Vilnius is among the cheapest eurozone capitals, and the gap between the old town square and a street two blocks away is large.
• Eat where the queue is Lithuanian. The cepelinai in a cafeteria costs a third of what the same dish costs on Pilies Street.

Tipping

• Around ten per cent in a restaurant for good service. Service is not usually added, and rounding up is fine elsewhere.