Originally Posted by NYCFlyer10001

Just experienced a case of forced DCC in the Cayman Islands; a rum cake shop outside of the cruise port where swiping a USD card immediately makes the terminal display:

"Account 4123...
U$ Amt?"

There is no way to charge the card in Cayman dollars; pressing 1 to start the sale says "Swipe or Insert" and as soon as a USD card is swiped it goes to U$; same if a USD card is inserted. The staff seemed to know about the scam and, to their credit, were willing to try several different things to avoid DCC but the terminal automatically selected USD anytime it figured out the card was USD. One of the clerks swiped their Cayman issued card, which shows up as "CI$ Amt?".

I didn't actually make a purchase since they couldn't figure out how to do it without DCC, so I don't have a photo of the receipt. I ended up getting rum cakes elsewhere instead.