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Credit card charges with Hotel booking agencies.

  • 03-07-2011 7:30pm
    #1
    xraylady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 413 ✭✭


    I had been looking, over past few days, at booking Hotel on Travelrepublic.ie but when I went to book tonight, I inadvertently went into Travelrepublic.co.uk.(same price) I didnt notice until booking had gone through but noticed that the uk "branch" only charge 1% CC charge while Irish one charges 2.5%! Quite a difference. Lucky mistake...


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  • #2
    walshy123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭walshy123


    The Irish one only appears to charging 1% on Visa and Mastercard?!


  • #3
    xraylady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 413 ✭✭xraylady


    Frequently Asked Questions

    What are your credit card charges?...


    Select another subject:
    Payments made by credit card


    question.gifPayments made by credit card

    answer.gif Answer:

    We charge a 2.5% handling fee for payments made by credit card.


  • #4
    loopymum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭loopymum


    AIB charge 1.75% for converting currency, I'm not sure about the other banks but if it's an AIB card wouldn't it end up costing you more?


  • #5
    xraylady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 413 ✭✭xraylady


    The price that I was quoted on UK site was in Euro. I selected it instead of GBP. On last page of booking I was quoted accom price in Euros (same as .ie site) 1% cc charge, and then "total booking cost in Euro". I went through same process afterwards on .ie site to compare and accom price the same but CC charge of 2.5% so "total booking cost" was higher. I assumed that they were charging me in Euro on both sites - making conversion themselves- Hope I'm correct?


  • #6
    walshy123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭walshy123


    xraylady wrote: »
    The price that I was quoted on UK site was in Euro. I selected it instead of GBP. On last page of booking I was quoted accom price in Euros (same as .ie site) 1% cc charge, and then "total booking cost in Euro". I went through same process afterwards on .ie site to compare and accom price the same but CC charge of 2.5% so "total booking cost" was higher. I assumed that they were charging me in Euro on both sites - making conversion themselves- Hope I'm correct?

    Very interesting. I made a booking yesterday on the .ie site for a hotel in Malaysia and I was charged 1%


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