Why you should travel with multiple foreign transaction fee-free cards
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During our trip to Paris and Luxembourg back in May, we ran into a small issue midway through the trip: every card I had with no foreign transaction fees was being declined. This was odd, as we had been traveling for a few days, and I hadn’t had any issues. I hadn’t notified any of the banks regarding our travel plans, a bad habit I’ve gotten into. But they haven’t helped my laziness, as nothing has ever been declined. Until this instance.
Why don’t any of my cards work?!
During our third day in Paris, I found that none of my credit cards would work. When purchasing some items from a local market, I first tried my Chase Sapphire Reserve, which was the primary card I’d been using during our trip. Declined….
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