Originally Posted by
chad75
Not that it is really anything but a very trivial issue but the thing I find consumer unfriendly about the $100US credit conversion is not just the fact that despite the $A falling a lot over the last 18 months or so it remains the same, but the fact that they use a different (more accurate) rate reflecting the lower value of the local currency when converting for points etc. They are also pretty hit and miss with the prive amenity which I only seem to get around every second stay.
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They do remove the Tax which is included in the advertised price.
This means that a room at AUD300 has 9.091% removed giving $273 - this figure is then converted to USD to calculate points.