Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfclq!al 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 Article-I.D.: hpfclq.70100001 Posted: Sun Dec 16 19:56:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 06:16:52 EST References: <303@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:whuxl:-30300:hpfclq:70100001:37777777600:628 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 csu-cs!hpfcla!al