LovesTimone
Christmas Day 2017
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2009
OP here...
All of these will need a chip and pin card. Your current Amex chip and swipe card will not work. In Europe the cards are put into a reader and a pin code is entered. We have a pin for our Amex, and also we have a pin for our regular CC's, including our Debit card.... Which we normally don't use when traveling, normally just the regular CC. So what I am reading here, is that these will not work... And we need to get some sort of international CC with a chip and pin like a debit card? Correct...So you can not use regular CC just the chip and pin? Correct...
This just baffles me, you are going to a different country, you need to use their currency, not your own. You can buy Euros from your own bank or from a money exchange. You can also get Euros cash from any ATM in France, BUT you will need a chip and pin card. So could I use my Debit card, and pin to withdraw money at a ATM?
We have been all over the Caribbean and never encountered this... So glad that you all are here to help me along the way...
This whole Chip and Pin thing, I think I might be making more out of it then necessary so I will be heading to the bank and calling the CC companies to see what exactly what we need to do...
As far as the question about US currency in another country... I apologize... this is what happens when you get on line and have not had enough "Café American"....
On the Toilet tissue question... Negative Nelly told me this. I think she just was laying it on really thick and piling it on about how terrible everything was... I will tell you a secret in our day bag, I carry those seat cover and toilet tissue individual packages...as a precaution...and thankfully I have had them on several occasions...
All of these will need a chip and pin card. Your current Amex chip and swipe card will not work. In Europe the cards are put into a reader and a pin code is entered. We have a pin for our Amex, and also we have a pin for our regular CC's, including our Debit card.... Which we normally don't use when traveling, normally just the regular CC. So what I am reading here, is that these will not work... And we need to get some sort of international CC with a chip and pin like a debit card? Correct...So you can not use regular CC just the chip and pin? Correct...
This just baffles me, you are going to a different country, you need to use their currency, not your own. You can buy Euros from your own bank or from a money exchange. You can also get Euros cash from any ATM in France, BUT you will need a chip and pin card. So could I use my Debit card, and pin to withdraw money at a ATM?
We have been all over the Caribbean and never encountered this... So glad that you all are here to help me along the way...
This whole Chip and Pin thing, I think I might be making more out of it then necessary so I will be heading to the bank and calling the CC companies to see what exactly what we need to do...
As far as the question about US currency in another country... I apologize... this is what happens when you get on line and have not had enough "Café American"....
On the Toilet tissue question... Negative Nelly told me this. I think she just was laying it on really thick and piling it on about how terrible everything was... I will tell you a secret in our day bag, I carry those seat cover and toilet tissue individual packages...as a precaution...and thankfully I have had them on several occasions...