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21 Mar 19, 11:54 PM |
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Travelling without a credit card
I want to book a hotel in cairns for a 2 night stay for ds. It will be paid in full at booking but the hotel want a card swipe on arrival .Ds won’t have a credit card ( he’s 18 ) and they are only taking a small amount of cash as the rest of the time they will be staying with my sister in Sydney so I will just transfer to her what they need while out there and she will give it them in Oz dollars .
Has anyone any experience of this especially with kids who have just turned 18? What did you do ?
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22 Mar 19, 12:11 AM |
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Can they not use their debit card? We don’t have credit cards and we usually use one of our starling cards for hotels.
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22 Mar 19, 12:18 AM |
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They do but we have no idea how much they need to be in the account . The hotels don’t actually tell you what the hold is. I don’t want to transfer £500 then them go and lose the card with the time difference .
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22 Mar 19, 09:58 AM |
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would it not be prudent to have at least on CC for emergencies/covering hotel incidentals even if you never use it?
always good for the credit score to have at least one being used/paid off regular |
22 Mar 19, 10:04 AM |
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They are only just turned 18 so unlikely to be accepted for one as they have no income being students . Getting access to funds isn’t a problem as they are staying with my sister for 18 nights in Sydney but they wanted to see the reef so are just having 2 nights in cairns ( my sister isn’t going ) to see the reef , it’s just the hotels needed a cc hold in case of damage.
Great news though , The hotel have got back to me and advised they can put a hold on mine with no problem . Excellent customer service and peace of mind for me .
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22 Mar 19, 10:10 AM |
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My daughter has a credit card she got when 18 , purely to build up her credit score, my OH suggested she do it, I wasn’t so sure but she’s really sensible with it, puts petrol on it every couple of weeks and a few little bits and always settles it in full... last year though it got cloned and she completely freaked out... someone had bought a big tv from Tesco with it ... it did get sorted very quickly , she’s off to America in September I’m glad she has one just in case.
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22 Mar 19, 10:12 AM |
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22 Mar 19, 10:14 AM |
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Would they get one accepted with any means of income though ? They are both off to uni after college , no idea how all this works these days if I’m honest .
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22 Mar 19, 10:17 AM |
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22 Mar 19, 10:19 AM |
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I never use a credit card, and travel everywhere with my debit card. Never had an issue
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