Originally Posted by
Astrophsx
I would have thought the best piece of advice would be to not get a credit card at all if you are a student and only abroad for 3 months. You could get a Charles Schwab checking account for free and not be charged any ATM or international banking fees. He does suggest being an authorized user on a parent's premium card that had no forex (this probably should have been his first suggestion).
I actually
did recently get my daughter a credit card for her semester abroad.
In the end I got her to get a Pentagon Federal Credit Union Visa. It has no forex and is chip and pin.
'Course that would make a horrible blog entry since there would be no fees earned for that kind of referral.
Luckily I use flyertalk for advice like this, not blogs that have ulterior motives.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...dy-abroad.html
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