Getting Cash
If your ATM card or charge-card has the Cirrus logo on the back, then by far the easiest way to get money is from a Bankomat® (ATM) that takes credit-cards and Cirrus ATM cards.
If you're not within the Cirrus zone, you can use a credit-card to withdraw cash, but if you do, you will be charged interest (at whatever obscene rate your chosen credit-card company extorts) from the moment the cash is withdrawn. The ForEx and other fees are about the same as Cirrus. If you intend using your credit-card to get cash, you can avoid the extra interest by ensuring that your credit-card account is actually in credit (by overpaying your credit-card bill substantially).
Most ATMs in Uppsala will not take Cirrus ATM cards or credit-cards: they take locally issued cards only. I've tried a few of them, and my Cirrus ATM card issued in Ireland only works in the ones with the panel of credit-card logos.
Known Good ATMs
I have personally withdrawn cash from the following ATMs (all with the panel of credit-card logos) with a Cirrus card:
- Rightmost Bankomat in a group of 3 on the southwest side of Stora Torget (only multiples of 500 SEK)
- Bankomat inside the S:t Persgatan entrance to S:t Per Gallerian
- Bankomat at Svenska Handelsbanken at Dragarbrunnsgatan 40
A Note on Translation
Most of the ATM's are marked Bankomat, which is a registered trademark. It has, however, become genericised and is the commonly-used term for ATM in Swedish, even making it into my pocket dictionary as the sole translation for ATM. Uttagsautomat is the little-used generic term for an ATM which you may see occasionally.
