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I had visited Australia several years ago. However, I did not have a credit card fee added to my bill for that trip because I had prepaid the hotel charges in advance from the U.S. There was a fairly large discount for prepaid hotel stays.

Although I travel to many different countries, I have never seen this type "fee" added to a bill because of using a credit card to pay a hotel bill.

As I previously expressed, it does seem tacky and unprofessional.

We live in an electronic age now. Most people don't walk around with a wad of cash in their pocket to pay large bills.

It seems having to carry cash to avoid a credit card fee could be a safety hazard if a robber took advantage of the fact that many people pay their hotel bills with cash.

Just curious, are statistics of robberies of individual in Australia higher than in other countries?