Comment by ericmay
16 days ago
Ok fair enough. I used the terms interchangeably but shouldn't have - I can't edit my post.
So to be more clear: find me a hotel in Europe that doesn't require a credit card to book or have on file related to the reasons I stated above.
I live in Europe and have stayed at quite a few hotels, I don't have a credit card, I do have two debit cards.
Sure, can you provide an example?
And separately, does that hotel accept credit cards?
By the way, American debit cards also run on Visa and Mastercard. So going back to the OP this idea of Europe "breaking up" with Visa and Mastercard is just not going to happen even if somehow whatever number of European businesses just stopped accepting credit cards.
Hotels in 10+ European countries? They accept any visa/mastercard and don't care if its debit or credit, its irrelevant. They will keep accepting them in addition to this new EU system.
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