We are looking at booking a room in Vancouver (yea for a cruise!!). If the room cost $250. CSD, what should it be in USD. we will get a quote the price seems way off to me. I will not post my answer as I want someone else to do the math.
Thanks
gary
When I convert I get something in the $200.00 range. My wife was dealing with a hotel that was telling her it would be $320 USD. I told her to find a different place to stay.
Originally posted by gdjoslin:
When I convert I get something in the $200.00 range. My wife was dealing with a hotel that was telling her it would be $320 USD. I told her to find a different place to stay.
If the room is $250 CAD then it should be around $210. USD using Friday's rate & 2% interbank rate
Just get some Canadian $ from your bank or an ATM when you arrive and pay cash at the hotel
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Lyn
FORMER CRUISES:
Alexandr Pushkin, Carnival-Holiday, HAL-(old)Westerdam, Orient lines-Marco Polo, Royal Olympic-Olympic, NCL-Dream, Dawn-Princess, ACCL-Grande Caribe, Oceania-Insignia (3), Regatta(4) Marina (1) St Lawrence Cruise Lines-Canadian Empress
Originally posted by penny3333:
I hope that's not a typical hotel room rate in Vancouver. Did you check with the cruise line to see if their rates were less expensive?
Penny the rate is great, I am just concerned about the conversion.
The rate is for a two room suite, breakfast for four, parking for our car for the week we are on the cruise, and shuttle too the ship....My wife thinks she has the conversion worked out with them.
thanks
The rate is for a two room suite, breakfast for four, parking for our car for the week we are on the cruise, and shuttle too the ship....My wife thinks she has the conversion worked out with them.
thanks
I guess I must have missed something
Why not just pay in CAD or put it on your CC & let them do the conversion.
When we travel to the USA we do not pay in CAD for a US hotel.
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Lyn
FORMER CRUISES:
Alexandr Pushkin, Carnival-Holiday, HAL-(old)Westerdam, Orient lines-Marco Polo, Royal Olympic-Olympic, NCL-Dream, Dawn-Princess, ACCL-Grande Caribe, Oceania-Insignia (3), Regatta(4) Marina (1) St Lawrence Cruise Lines-Canadian Empress
Lyn, my wife did not ask for a conversion. We were find letting the CC be charged in Canadian. The person giving the quote has a screen in front of them with the rates and a conversion box for the US or whereever. The person told my wife BTW that will be "X" in US dollars. My wife asked her if she was sure and the person repeated the quote.
My wife tried another place. When she was givng the Candian amount the person did not convert it, so my wife asked. It was the same amount.
What happen was this. the places my wife called were using the same type of sofware for the booking, I guess they are under the same umbrella of service. The software was converting it wrong. That would not have mattered because it is up to the CC and others to do the conversion. It just get off an alarm when the amount she was quoted was so high.
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