I have an iva but need a visa card to book hotels in europe for work trips. Any suggestions,have read about pre paid cards but not sure if these work for booking hotels.
I'm sure the pre payment card would work for such a need as they are widely accepted every where now.
Also just another idea but if you have a PayPal account, they now do a PayPal access MasterCard linked to your account. So you can transfer money into your PayPal account & use the card to pay for goods etc.
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Luluj are you saying you can book a hotel with a prepaid card? Never tried myself as there`s no guarantee that you`ll have funds when they take payment on a[?] no-show.
I used the Cashplus card to book online and pay when at hotels.
Be aware that the hotel may reserve the amount against the card. ie your balance still shows correcly but you can't get at the money until the hotel releases the money or you pay the bill using the card.
Mel, I used my GFs card to book some of mine initially but on arrival at the hotel with cash they still demanded a credit card to be presented as security but I didn't have that amount available on the cashplus card at the time which caused some embarassment. Luckily they just accepted it.
I ended up making sure there was enough on the cashplus card AND I took cash to pay the bill so I was knew I was covered.
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Theres a card called the CredE its provided by Contis it provides a fully embosed visa debit card, standing order facilities and faster payments in and out and also cashback when using your card online and in stores, its £10 for the card and then £2 per month thereafter You also get your own account number and sort code
I think the only thing you can't do is withdraw cash from abroad with a cash card (was known as cash card plus)but it's now called cash card and still has the visa debit bit on it. I think it's a cracking account, has all the regular facilities, plus online, monthly statments, go in branch. Just no overdraft, but costs not a bean
Hi All, I will give my input shortly as currently in transit to Manchester as prepaid cards and hotel bookings as well as car hire does sometimes depend on the card and rental company used. Will post shortly!
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