Recently on a trip to Ireland and as I was exiting the country I stopped by the VAT refund desk to have my refund slips processed. I asked for the refund to be put onto my credit card in euros (as I had a AMTRAK Visa with a 1% currency conversion fee). They wouldn't do it, they insisted that I had to take the refund in the native currency of the credit card!. Of course the exchange rate was nothing short of highway robbery, well over 5% off the going rate. All this made me want to get a EURO denominated credit card just for that purpose. Does anyone know a way around this?

[This message has been edited by tsedg (edited 11-05-2002).]