Originally Posted by
Happy
In the morning of check out day I saw it was still a DCCed amount showing on Chase online, so I went down to front desk and made the guy to retrieve the correct HKD billing slip given he insisted since I already circled the HKD, it should be billed in HKD but the bank information shown otherwise.
Preauths are almost always the DCC amount even if the billing is correct. The only way to prevent the DCC amount on a preauth and put your mind at ease completely is to making the booking with an AmEx and switch the card at checkout. (I do this at hotels with bad behavior.) The same goes for some, but not all, purchases with DCC. For instance, the DFS machines will hold the
non-DCC amount if you opt out, but others such as
Francfranc or
Disneyland will hold the DCC amount and post the correct amount.
In Hong Kong you're almost always protected for two reasons: 1) The currency selection typically comes on carbon copy paper of which you receive one copy and 2) merchants can typically reprint a courtesy copy of the receipt showing the final, correct amount.
Originally Posted by
Happy
All Hong Kong eateries, shops and supermarkets do not ever attempt to DCC. All are correctly billed in HKD.
I
beg to differ. Just because you don't personally see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I'm actually surprised since Hong Kong is one of the locations with almost ubiquitous DCC deployment. While most honor DCC choices, some, such as Greyhound Cafe (or at least as of late 2014) did not.