Originally Posted by
Majuki
Poland has been among the worst offenders for DCC for the past 4 or 5 years based on the reports here. There's certainly a self-selection process on FlyerTalk, but the country comes up frequently.
For instance, I just got back from 5 weeks in Australia. While DCC is definitely present in Australia these days, I never saw it by tapping my payments 100% of the time. I either used points or paid with Amex for hotels, so I didn't see DCC there either.
So tapping is the safest way to avoid DCC in Australia? I'll be heading back to Sydney later this year and I want to use cards as much as I can. AMEX seems pretty useless outside of hotels, but no DCC at all with them?