During our December trip I had a few hundred dollar denomination checks left from a previous trip and I had no problem using them. We did find a few places that didn't accept them but those places all accepted credit cards so it wasn't a big deal. You can definitely still cash them at the larger grocery stores and at the casinos but you must provide your picture ID if I'm not mistaken. One of the places that wouldn't accept them any longer happened to be our favorite restaurant and he explained to us it wasn't his policy but the policy of the bank he does business with and we subsequently heard this from several other businesses, too, so I suspect that is the reason though I really don't understand the banks reasoning in the first place.

While I have no problem getting them from our local Webster Bank, and free of charge at that, I'm told lately the hardest part of using TCs these days is finding them in the first place. So good luck on all counts. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />