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Old Feb 11, 2008 | 4:18 pm
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Originally Posted by themicah
You can avoid this little scam by paying with cash or traveler's checks denominated in the same currency as the posted prices. If you hand them five Benjamins to pay your $500 bill, there's no opportunity for them to play conversion rate games.
Are you sure about that? I thought when hotels post their rates in USD or other non-local currencies, that is for informational purposes only and the actual bill is going to be in local currency regardless of the form of payment.
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