HS Exchange

HS Exchange is the currency counter inside Tirana International Airport at Rinas, the first place most visitors can turn euros or pounds into lek after landing…HS Exchange is the currency counter inside Tirana International Airport at Rinas, the first place most visitors can turn euros or pounds into lek after landing. It exists for the transaction that cannot wait: the taxi or bus fare into the city, a coffee, a SIM card, before the better rates of the city bureaux are reachable.

The practical advice that applies to every airport counter applies here: change what is needed for the first hours and no more, since the city chains publish sharper rates online, and the airport branches of those chains price differently from their town counters. It is nonetheless a licensed bureau rather than a hustler at the door, which at an arrivals hall is worth something.