Originally Posted by
AA_EXP09
Many places have free wifi
Not consistent. Let's try airports around Asia:
HKG, ICN: yes very good
SIN: good but it drops a bit
CTS: only in certain areas. I remember going to the airport pharmacy, flipping on Google Translate to translate throat lozenges into Japanese, realising my wifi's dropped out and having to backtrack to the check-in area to get the translation and entering the pharmacy again
BKK: you have to find the service kiosk and get the access code strip. Even if you do find the service kiosk, it's slow
TPE, BOM, HAN, SGN, DAD, REP: not available except in lounges or restaurants. They really like locking down their wifi.
Originally Posted by
AA_EXP09
pegged or in a very small range (i.e. if I see GBPUSD at a rate like 0.568 then I know something is wrong.)
(This is for Europe) A way around this is to simply display the card currency amount. Don't display the exchange rate, not at the selection rate anyway. Takes more mental math to work out and a lot of travellers fail at this.
(Not valid in rest of the world because exchange rate is mandated to be published. But another trick can be to state the exchange rate in the way contrary to usual practice in the merchant jurisdiction (direct --> indirect or vice versa) and challenge cardholders to do inversions in their heads)