Originally Posted by
longtimereader firstimeposter
So the hotel is essentially charging $175 per night instead of the $100 quoted on the Marriott site and what was confirmed at booking. Seems pretty fraudulent. At the time when I checked out, the COP had never been as high as 3500:1. So basically a BS rate.
Exactly, the fraudulent element is not the currency conversion itself but the inflated rate they used.