Just a note of warning to other travellers using low-cost currency conversion charge credit/debit cards expecting to gain the currency advantage.

I noticed that all of my recent euro IC bills have had the hotel effect the conversion without asking me first - so that the charges have been made in £ rather than euros. This has enabled them to add 3% to the Reuters wholesale rate.

In fairness to the properties this had been small print under my signature .... but like many others I suspect - my attention was solely on the transactions and the total which was listed as euros.

Pointless having low cost cards if IC add 3% .......