Originally Posted by
ramraideruk
This is happening alot in European restaurants. You get given a total in your local currency. Often they will refuse to allow you to have the original amount in Euros. It is definitely becoming more widespread.
Paris and Dublin are hell for it. Unfortunatley you can't trust the cashier to do the honest thing. When I'm in the euro zone I just use cash (book the hotels etc through expedia so the amount is already converted). Sadly visa and mastercard won't do anything as it's a project they created
