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From: al@hpfclq.UUCP (al)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Credit Cards in Europe
Message-ID: <70100001@hpfclq.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 19:56:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 16 19:56:00 1984
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Nf-From: hpfclq!al    Dec  3 16:56:00 1984

On a trip to Germany in 1983, I found I was almost never able to use
a credit card for *meals*.  About half of the hotels (well, maybe they
weren't exactly big hotels) didn't recognize anything other than cash.
My conclusion was: if you get off the beaten path *at all*, carry
cash; anything else was useless.

I even had one waitress stare at me like I was from Mars when she 
was offered an Amex card -- she'd never seen one before.  In case 
you think it's just because I don't speak German, it's not; my 
German's good enough the tour guides kept giving me the German 
version of the guidebooks!

al stone
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