Originally Posted by
zyxlsy
Two days in HK, and I think DCC is kind of omnipresent here.
However, they are all very clear and easy to opt out (the ones I've encountered). Usually, the cashiers (today at 翠华 in 铜锣湾 and yesterday at Hong Kong Station MTR) would opt out for me, and I actually receive two slips at once, with one showing confirmed HKD amount. Just now at Tom Lee Causeway Bay, they asked for my currency preference after seeing the choices on the terminal. Hitting "cancel" means HKD.
My guess would be that rogue DCC terminals are always in Bars here in HK? Regular shops and restaurants seem fine.
Yeah, the MTR station almost caught me off guard. The lady at HKIA already had my card in hand when I saw the Citibank "Pay in your own currency!" sign. I quickly had to relay, "HKD, please!" I would say - and the resident expert
percysmith can chime in here - that the likely DCC trap is when you have a carbon copy signature receipt. In that scenario it depends if the cashier inputs anything to denote the currency selection.
For example, they certainly didn't do anything at Greyhound Cafe. You could tick the HKD box, but that request would go off into a black hole. Pressing cancel during the transaction didn't do anything. Likewise, I almost lost it at a restaurant at Disneyland when the cashier said, "Check HKD, and it's HKD."
I would say that most places in HK respect DCC choices, but you can run into problems at restaurants and bars.