Originally Posted by
sty730
Planning on a trip to BA in January and just now learning about "blue rates" and "VAT refunds". I'm looking at staying at the Palacio Duhau for two nights and had a few questions:
- Is the rate on Hyatt's website inclusive of VAT (so you get a 21% discount) or is it exclusive of VAT, so what you see is what you pay?
- For the Advance Payment rates, are those also inclusive of VAT (so even though it's prepaid, you get 21% back eventually)?
- How does the "MEP" or "Blue dollar" rate work with Visa/MC payments -- if I do an Advance Payment, does it charge based on the reflected USD rate on Hyatt's website or does it convert to ARS and back to the blue rate?
Sorry for the hyper technical questions, but it seems nothing online really addresses these points.
Not sure on advance payments. But as a foreigner being a foreign card you won’t pay vat. At checkout it gets converted to pesos at the government rate and converted back to the “tourist rate” when you pay with a foreign card so it ends up being quite a bit less.
I would assume it’s similar with advanced payments but I really don’t know. And with the recent election results things could change in the future. I have a trip in January in myself and I’m wondering what will change.