On 04/02/2010 02:25 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > On Apr 2, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Ralph Droms wrote: > >> So, with all this discussion, I'm still not clear what to expect. >> When I walk up to a train ticket kiosk in Schiphol, should I expect to >> be able to use my US-issued, non-chip credit card (AMEX, VISA - I >> don't care as long as *one* of them works), or should I have a fistful >> of Euros handy? >> > > We need ground truth here - last time I was in Paris, I needed cash to > get a metro ticket - none of my cards worked. At 10:00 AM on a Sunday, > it was pretty inconvenient to find an open Bureau de Change. Somehow, most of us managed to make it to make it to stochholm, dublin prague and paris, without becoming wildly lost or destitute along the way, and that's not even mentioning the locations that I find generally inhospitable like anaheim, minneapolis, chicago, san diego and dallas that we all somehow coped with. you'd think for all at winging about payment system failure on this list that we're going to rwanda not holland. fwiw Nederlandse Spoorwegen says they accept credit cards and I've done that alibiet not in the last year at a kiosk in the airport. They also have a ticket counter... > Marshall > > >> - Ralph >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ietf mailing list >> Ietf@xxxxxxxx >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >> > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf