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Old Aug 30, 2006 | 5:26 pm
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b1513
 
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Originally Posted by holtju2
Quite often the hotels quote the prices in $$'s especially if you book them through the official websites. So far I have always ended up paying in local currency but made sure that the currency conversion has been based on current fx rates.
While this isn't exactly the same thing, in Ireland when we used a credit card they wrote the bill in US dollars instead of in Euros and they used an exchange rate that wasn't friendly($1.32 instead of $1.27) to the traveller. After it happend once, I asked everyone to bill me in Euros (rather than in dollars)so I would get the correct exchange rate when I charged it to my credit card.

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