Originally Posted by
BearX220
But in practice they often do not. You have to say as you are handing your card over (or sliding it into the slot, whatever) that you wish to pay in pounds, Euro, etc. and not dollars, or you will suffer DCC disadvantage.
Perhaps I have been lucky, but I've always been asked in hotels around the world.
I would definitely follow up with a complaint, and possibly dispute the charge, if a hotel did this to me without my consent.