Originally Posted by
bostontraveler
It’s not just USD denominated cards. This happens with EUR and other issues cards- it is still often billed in USD
Sure. It's like Aruba. (I'm not using the Maldives as an example because to my knowledge there's no way to pay in MVR at the resorts. In Aruba you could always present a local card or cash in AWG.) However, in the case of Aruba hotel bills are presented in USD. Any DCC would be top of the USD amount. In this case the quoted price at booking and the price at checkout (which matched the price at booking) were both USD. The folio I was given for review at checkout was MXN. I have two questions:
1) If the booking price and credit card transactions are natively in USD, why provide the hotel bill in MXN instead of USD?
2) Would any DCC, if present, be on top of the USD price, not the MXN price? That is to say if someone presents a EUR, GBP, or CAD card and the transaction had DCC would the conversion happen off of a USD price?
Originally Posted by
percysmith
Menus in SGD, bill in INR, at the rate in the reception (remember to take a photo before you sit down and order).
I know DCC in Indonesia used to be non-existent, but I wonder if eventually they wouldn't try to DCC on top of that.