Maybe a lot of people already know this but I just found out now so I thought I'd share.
You don't have to pay the default fee on XMR to get fast transactions.
I set the fee to 0.25x in the GUI and within 20 minutes of pressing send it had 10 confirmations. Less than 75p (~$1) for the transfer and it was in my Libertas account within 20 minutes.
Go Monero!
EDIT: So I don't have to keep posting these in response to peoples comments; Monero Wallet Download
Now if only Libertas was actually reachable for more than three minutes.