Originally Posted by
Cheetah_SA
Thanks for those insights into the arcane world of credit card transactions. ^
This business of "holds" has bitten me before.
Indeed....we had a one night award stay at the Bs As Park Hyatt a few weeks ago. Several days after our stay my wife went to use the same credit card we had used at check-in and found out the transaction would not go through (very low credit limits on some Argentine cards).
Turns out the Hyatt hadn't released the $220 hold on the card....took about a fortnight for it to come off.