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Credit cards in general are not too popular in Europe, they're either not accepted at all or only Visa and Mastercard are accepted. A Maestro debit card is your
by dtech 9y ago
Credit cards in general are not too popular in Europe, they're either not accepted at all or only Visa and Mastercard are accepted. A Maestro debit card is your best bet and will work in almost all terminals in Europe.
- kasey_junk 9y agoThis is not at all true of London. Last time I was there I didn’t even get local currency as I used credit for everything.
- Symbiote 9y agoThat is two different things. Paying by card is very common in some countries (Northern Europe, France), paying by credit card is common in some (UK, Ireland), paying by cash is common in others (Germany). It's not possible to generalize all of Europe for any of these, except to say that all EU/EEA countries have modern systems. (For example, there are restaurants in Sweden that don't take cash, and restaurants in Germany that don't take any cards, restaurants in Denmark that charge an extra 2% if you use a credit card rather than a debit card, and restaurants in Britain that happily accept the 5% it costs them to accept AmEx.)
- cja 9y agoWhich bit of Europe do you mean? I live in Europe and almost always use card.