Originally Posted by
percysmith
Have been traveling around the French countryside for the last week, eating, sleeping, drinking and (when not drinking) driving (with Europcar rental) with mastercards and visas. No DCC ever tried, not even in the mercure/novotels and Europcar. DCC is still so foreign to them one cashier thought I wanted to pay cash when I told them I wanted to pay Euros.
I had the same experience.
London has very regulated DCC, and I thought Paris is gonna be filled with forced DCCs since Paris is not as regulated.
But living there for a week with constant swiping plastic (alloy with the my CSP), I encountered no DCC at all, even at Ledoyen... Their response to "Charge me in Euros please" is "why not???"...
I guess it's a form of convenience for the merchant. If you are doing business with almost only Euros, why do you need USD in your bank account? You have to exchange them back to Euros in the end and lose some value in it, right?
But some other very touristy countries like Macau, find foreign currencies like USD very attractive, because their economies are filled with them, right?