How good is credit card acceptance in Czech Republic?
For travelers in Czech Republic, how common is it to be able to pay using a card (Visa/Mastercard)?
Can you pay for public transport tickets by card? Can you generally pay in restaurants by card? Is it possible to use non-standard cards, such as American Express or Discovery?
Best Answer
As for the public transport, this differs city by city. In Prague, most of the ticket machines only accept coins, but the major hubs (e.g. at airport, major train stations) are recently being outfitted with ticket machines that also accept payment cards (and banknotes). However I noticed some of them only accept contact-less cards.
Major train stations all accept payment cards.
Virtually all supermarkets and most of shops accept payment cards in larger cities. Even in smaller ones, supermarkets will often accept payment cards.
As for types of cards accepted - almost all domestic payment cards are issued by Visa or MasterCard, so you won't have problems with those. Don't know about others. The accepted authorization methods are contact-less, chip-and-pin, often magnetic stripe and pin should be possible. In the past, magnetic stripe and pin or signature were used, so many terminals still have the stripe reader. But I wouldn't rely on signature being accepted instead of pin anymore.
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Are cards widely accepted in Prague?
Credit cards, including contactless payment cards, are accepted at all hotels, restaurants and international shops in Prague. However, at some small local shops, caf\xe9s and bars cash is still king, so we recommend you carry some with you.What credit card is most widely accepted in Europe?
American credit cards work throughout Europe (at hotels, larger shops and restaurants, travel agencies, car-rental agencies, and so on); Visa and MasterCard are the most widely accepted.What is the most accepted credit card internationally?
Most Widely Accepted Internationally: Mastercard (210+ countries and territories); Visa (200+). Most Widely Accepted in the U.S.: Visa and Mastercard are both accepted at a little less than 11 million U.S. merchant locations.What country does not accept credit cards?
Below are the countries where your Westpac credit or debit card won't be accepted:- Cuba.
- Iran.
- North Korea.
- Russia.
- Darfur region of Sudan.
- Syria.
- Crimea region of Ukraine.
- Donetsk region of Ukraine.
European credit cards kinda suck… (Czech Republic)
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In Prague, cards were accepted many places except, curiously, the apartment hotel we used. All restaurants above street food, all souvenir shops, all museums, all major stores. American Express was accepted in a few places, including a special price at the cinema that outweighed their outrageous 2.75% foreign currency fee. Discover was also accepted at a few stores, including an indulgent purchase of a tea set, for which the 0% conversion fee and 2% end-of-year rebate were appreciated.
On an earlier trip (2010), I had trouble finding ATMs in the countryside and restaurants did not accept plastic.
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