The country does not take credit cards

The thing about Tuvalu you should know is this country does not take credit cards. The entire country operates on a cash basis. Not that there are many places you can spend your money in Tuvalu. The country only has one hotel and one real guest house. Those are also the only restaurants in the country.

There’s also no ATM machine anywhere in Tuvalu. And to top it off, the country uses the Australian Dollar, which is difficult to obtain in Fiji—which is the only place offering flights to Tuvalu! The country is small, which is the primary reason you can’t use credit cards, and its remote location in the middle of the ocean is the second key factor. There isn’t a whole lot of demand for credit cards, and putting the infrastructure in place to process them would take a lot of money. So when traveling in Tuvalu prepare yourself a little cash to be able to shop or exchange here.