[Idyllchat] cash and credit cards

[Patricia Edie]

I echo all the suggestions to use bank affiliated ATMs in the country once you arrive to obtain your local currency and to have notified your bank of your travel plans prior to departure.

Also notify your credit card companies so that your cards are not locked off.

Regarding credit cards, we recently returned from a month's trip in Italy.  This is the first time that we conducted all credit card business usinig a Capital One Rewards card.  The statements are now coming in and it is wonderful not to have any currency exchange charges associated with our purchases.  To my knowledge, except for some credit unions, Capital One is the only credit card does not add a certain percentage transaction fee for purchases made in another currency.  We did take another credit card as a back up, but we never had to use it.

We obtained this valuable information from this discussion list!  Grazie!!

Patricia Edie
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