How to get cash abroad without a physical card or ID

What the numbers show

Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count

• The most recent one is from September 2026.
• It is not one crowd: 2 people on Reddit and 1 on Stack Exchange ran into the same thing.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

1. 1
   Hanging around shop checkouts to ask another customer to pay for their items with a card in exchange for physical cash
2. 2
   Asking the cruise ship concierge or shore excursion desk for local currency advances or to retrieve the passport
3. 3
   Paying directly in foreign currency (such as US dollars) at tourist shops to receive local currency change
4. 4
   Trying to request cashback by asking shops to overcharge a card payment
5. 5
   Reading up on specific ATM networks supported by the card
6. 6
   Looking for specific bank ATMs like Chase Bank that support contactless access
7. 7
   Obtaining a physical plastic card before traveling

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.