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Old Nov 6, 2014 | 2:39 pm
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Originally Posted by arlflyer
Ran into this at the DT Burlington in Dublin last year. Was given a folio in Euros, told them to run it with the card on file, lo and behold the receipt reflected DCC. I don't know why a major company permits its properties to do this.
We were in Dublin, Galway, and Connemara this spring and found this practice widespread unless we were vocal at the start of the transaction about paying in Euros, please. Not just at hotels but in shops. We learned quickly. The DCC fake seems to be a bigger thing in Ireland.
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