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If your from the USA, do you have to pay for your hotel in $USD or GBP? |
Travel Info My boyfriend and I are traveling to London this fall and we would like to know that when we go to pay for our hotel by credit card will we be charged the GBP amount or the $USD amount since we're from the USA? Travel Tips If you intend to pay the hotel by credit card, it doesnt make a lot of difference. Your hotel bill in London will always be in 拢 GBP, but any US credit card company will automatically convert the payment to $ USD for their own purposes and that conversion will later appear on your credit card bill. So when you eventually pay the card bill, it'll be in $ as usual. The same thing will happen anytime you pay for anything in London with your card...so its a very good idea to know the exchange rate and keep track of roughly how much you are spending in $. Others You will be charged in USD, but converted from Pounds, so the number will be different. Just give the Hotel your Credit Card and the Credit Card Company takes care of all the bookkeeping and foreign exchange. You do not need to worry about it. As the rest of Europe changes over to the Euro, Britain still holds onto the pound sterling (拢). One pound equals 100 pence. Coins are in 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, 拢1 and 拢2. Notes are as follows: blue 拢5, orange 拢10, purple 拢20 and red 拢50. Please note that $50 notes are not always accepted, so it's best to have smaller denominations. Hotels aren't the best places to convert other currencies into pounds because their fees can be expensive. A bureau de change, such as Chequepoint, Lenlyn and Thomas Cook, is a better option. Major rail stations and tourist areas in central London have money exchange counters. http://www.x-rates.com/ |
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