You need to travel with a Visa or Mastercard Debit Card (a debit with the cc logo). No hotel/airline/rental car/catalog order will turn it down and it gets treated exactly like a cc – no holds on the account.
You do not have to even say that it’s a debit card – when they ask for a cc# you just give it to them.
Almost every bank out there offers it.
If yours doesn
’t – it might be worth changing. I couldn’t get by without mine. Monica
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