Originally Posted by craz
forgot to mention, its not Only the hotels. I constantly book a Rental Car online and it shows me the US$ rate, when you go to pay your bill its charged in the local cuurency Also.
Offer to pay US$ and they wont take it they will charge you Only in the Local currency again you'll hear teh samething all you did was to lock in how much US$ you have to pay, even though you cant actually pay in US$, but in Local currency Only.
u can pay any currency you like but they will have to convert it into the local currencies at the hotel exchange rate. (obviously a lot higher)
obviously the currencies in smaller countries do flutate, as far as marriott is concern, they have charged you a rate equates to the amount in US Dollars, the rate that was given by their FX agent.
Whatever fee your cc company charges you on top ie. fx conversion fee is nothing to do with them. its ur choice in the end of the day.