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That is the normal practice for all business from hotels to building material suppliers - USD at BNA rate on day of payment. The new problem is since Friday when some hotels falsely think they should be charging at the MEP rate because they don't understand the concept. Just be aware. The...

A Yes! Tourists would have no club and would easily be defrauded into paying double.

Yeah, the point is it's going to be rampant the over charging because people hear "tourist dollar" and they think it should correspond to the original tourist dollar where Argentines pay more abroad. So the equivalent intuituve Argentine logic would be foreigners paying more in Argentina! Lol...

The issue is not with Booking.com. The issue is with Argentine hotels thinking there is a new official policy of a "tourist dollar" that applies to hotel prices. It has to do with no one understanding that the new directive is about card purchases that would potentially allow foreigners to...

That's not true. What are you talking about? booking.com shows the property currency and the usd rate at the offical Banco Nacion exchange rate and that's the rate that is used.

Booking.com has been supportive. I also secretly used the hotel webpage whatsapp number to get a quote in pesos and there they use the official rate so maybe best to book directly with hotel? IDK but this is for sure another fail. I wouldn't mind if we could pay by card at the MEP rate but we...

BENS L'Hotel Palermo - beware!

Hotels are charging the MEP rate since Friday even for cash payments despite the fact that the directive is only for card payments and the card payments will likely never use the MEP rate because VISA/AMEX/MC will never be obliged to use it. This means that bookings made weeks ago at the...

If you use an android phone make two play accounts (google) one usa one Argentina, logout and switch users depending on what app you want to download. You can switch region in one account only once per 18months or something, that's why you need two distinct user accounts. I have both apps on my...

This is the email I got from BROU last week regarding requirements: Estimado Cliente, De acuerdo a su consulta le informamos que, para abrir una cuenta en nuestro Banco, será necesario dirigirse a cualquiera de nuestras Dependencias en Uruguay y presentar la siguiente documentación: Dos...

Has anyone tried sending via walmart2world service offered from Walmart in collaboration with moneygram to Uruguay? It appears the limit is 10k and the fee is $16 with USD pick up available.