Resuscitating my old rant thread because just got back from another trip and this sleazy practice is alive and well. Was in Antigua, Caribbean, and several restaurants and shops presented me with bills converted into USD. When I said I want to pay in local currency, XCD, they said that it is impossible, that their registers cannot do that with foreign cards. Short of standing there and causing a scene or keeping records of the amount in local currency, coming back and calculating and disputing every DCC transaction at inflated rates, what can you do?