Originally Posted by b1513
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.
Hotel tries to sell you this by saying that then the CC won't do the currency conversion. Utter BS because you end up paying the CC's foreign transaction fee anyway.