AussieNSW
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jul 10, 2012
I just wanted to remind those of us who are travelling about credit card holds. We travel regularly overseas but it still annoys me and I feel it is getting worse. At the moment we are in Vancouver and I have over $5500 worth of holds on my card. It means I have had to put extra money on my card to cover it. What really angers me is they put the amount of your stay on hold plus an amount just in case and then when you leave you have to pay for the room again. For a period of time you have double the amount that you cannot access on your credit card. I know it is still there and it will become avaliable again eventually. It is the eventually that is frustrating me. It really starts to add up when you are moving around 3 days here 3 days there. So far I have 2 hotels worth soon to be 3 in a few hours. It has been over a week and it states it can be a lot longer depending on the hotel, your bank and the credit card company.
This is just a reminder for those of you travel soon. I had better stop typing before I get carried away as this is an issue that really upsets me.
Ready to pack up and walk down to our Alaskian cruise and hoping the holds will be off at the end of the cruise ready to get more hotels put on for the rest of our trip.
This is just a reminder for those of you travel soon. I had better stop typing before I get carried away as this is an issue that really upsets me.
Ready to pack up and walk down to our Alaskian cruise and hoping the holds will be off at the end of the cruise ready to get more hotels put on for the rest of our trip.