Currently in Egypt and they just asked us to pay in USD cash for an added activity but, not being American, we don’t have USD. We have the local currency and the ability to get that out at ATMs, but no way to access foreign currency. So annoying but they accepted local in the end.
I’ve had this a couple of times. I just told them I only had their local currency or mine, Australian Dollars.
They’ve then accepted the Australian Dollars.
It’s probably a scam, but the amounts haven’t been large and what are you gonna do? In one case I needed to hand over some AUD to enter the country! (Cambodia)
Yeah we had about 2 euros, 2 GBP and 20 Israeli shekels. In the end they just accepted the Egyptian currency.