Service review

Value Plus

Licensed cash exchange chain with 11 Phuket counters, ranked #7 of 10 for 2026.

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What It Is

Value Plus is a licensed cash exchange chain with 11 active counters in Phuket: Patong, at 188/2 Phangmuang Sai Kor Rd., open 10:00 to 19:00; Central Festival and Central Floresta; and points in Laguna, Choeng Thale and Chalong. It is the largest counter network on the island in this ranking.

What it takes is the limiting factor: foreign banknotes across the counter. Roubles are not accepted, and neither is cryptocurrency or a bank transfer.

How It Works

You bring cash, hand it over with your passport and receive baht immediately, at the rate displayed at that branch. There is no messenger, no manager and no waiting for a confirmation.

Counters keep fixed hours — the Patong point closes at 19:00 — and there is no active counter inside Phuket airport, so arrival-day exchange means either the terminal's own operators or a service that pays out at an ATM.

How It Compares

Against every exchange service in this ranking, Value Plus is the simplest option for someone who arrived with US dollars or euros, and unavailable to everyone else: with money on a Russian card or in USDT you would first have to convert it elsewhere.

Against Money Shop Phuket and ExFM, which do take rouble notes, the difference is exactly that input. Against 2Change, Senate Exchange and ARBI Exchange, the trade is immediacy at a counter versus flexibility of a cardless ATM withdrawal in any district.