Forgive me for quoting myself here, but it is evident from the continued gnashing and chomping that no-one has read my post #22 on this very same thread which describes step-by-step the way to get around this shameless fleecing. To repeat myself yet again, I tried this and it worked. I wasn't prepared to submit to paying their terrible GBP-EUR rate without spending a bit of time to try and find a way around this. Did I mention that I tried it, and it worked? Airbnb billed my GBP credit card in euros, which my bank converted very favourably into British pounds with its 0% mark-up on the Visa wholesale rate. Rather than lining Airbnb's greasy pockets yet further with the appalling £ figure they came up with to pay for a listing in a euro-currency country.
Originally Posted by
Frog Escalator
There is a solution to this Airbnb payment problem. I tried it yesterday and it worked.
For the purposes of this step-by-step list, my card is UK-based/statement is in GBP and I wanted to pay in the host's currency (EUR). It didn't seem as if Airbnb would allow this.
Try to do this before you set forth with doing the actual booking, but here's how it works:
-- If you have only one payment card listed in their system, add a new payment card (even one you have no intention of using for Airbnb payments)
-- Delete your existing card
-- Add your old preferred card again, but under "Country of Issue" put the destination country (e.g. Spain -- this works even when typing in your non-Spanish billing-address postcode). I.e. to be clear, I selected "Spain" but typed in my UK postcode.
-- Pay as usual ... and you can pay in the host's currency that is different from your card's base currency without Airbnb's scandalous mark-up!
It works!