Originally Posted by
oberwolfach
I didn’t realize how limited the list of restaurants getting the dining credit actually was. Initially I was fine with it because the Opentable page seemed to indicate there were a couple of options in the Banff area. However, on closer inspection that page is confusing and misleading (it actually shows the “Visa Dining Collection”), and the list of restaurants getting the credit is much narrower (and limited to just the United States).
It's VERY confusing and misleading. We ate at a restaurant on Sunday that showed up on the landing page after it tells me to enter my participating credit card. So one would think that the very short list of restaurants would all pay the dining credit, but not so. I't s a much smaller subset of the short list. Luckily it was a restaurant that we'd been wanting to try anyway, so I didn't "waste" $146 on the experience. I only found out not to expect the dining credit by reading some of the travel blogs after the fact. I still can't figure out how to get OpenTable to show me ONLY the restaurants that will actually work for the credit. (although I now know that I need to look for the CSR badge).