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.
Yeah I agree, we have a tour guide and he said because it’s an international company running this particular activity they want foreign currency. They said they’d accept other major currencies but we had nothing but a couple of coins and they wouldn’t accept card payment.