Originally Posted by
treznor
Is this common? Anytime I've booked a hotel (at SPG but also Hilton and Marriott) I've had it quoted in local currency unless I go out of the way to ask it to quote in USD (which I don't do as I prefer to do the conversion myself) and then when I get the bill its always in local currency. I've always paid with Amex though, so maybe that's it.
Its quite common. During a recent visit to Kuala Lumpur, I booked seven nights at three different properties (two SPG, one Hilton) and
all three of them billed me in USD, despite the fact that the rates quoted in my reservations were in local currency. All of the properties willingly obliged my request to be billed in local currency without much fuss, although one of them encountered some intellectual difficulties in accomplishing the task, which was later completed by the manager.