Originally Posted by craz
Ive booked countless Hotels on line at all the Majors depending on the Country it will many times be Quoted in US$, however at checkout they dont accept the US$ but the charge is in their Local Currency, all the booking did was to let me know the equivalent in US$ that I will be charged but that I must pay in Local Money.
The only time I've had it happen to me recently was Mexico. Everywhere else (in the past few years, anyway), I've been quoted in pounds, Euros, or whatever and paid in the local currency, regardless of whether I used cash or a credit card.
At the major hotels I always use a CC; at a small B&B I'll usually give 'em cash - I know it saves the owner a couple percent of the total and the net cost to me is roughly the same whether I use cash or the SPG Amex. (That is, Amex's FX juice is roughly equal to my value for the points.)