What do you do when your credit card doesn’t work when you travel to a foreign country? An odd set of circumstances happened to a friend of mine recent when he took a trip to Mexico with his wife. His reservation was with a property in Cancun that’s part of a very well-known international chain, a property I’ve actually contemplated staying at myself. Upon check-in, his bank declined the pre-authorization on his credit card. He tried contacting his bank and they said they could open the card for a one-time […]
