Travel credit cards

Jenko-dog wrote: »

Hi all, not sure if it's me, but I find this website incredibly difficult to navigate. I wanted to share my experience of using the post office travel card on a new thread, but can't find how to do that, so I'll post it here and hope that it gets read.
The PO claim that their card is widely accepted, but beware! If, like me, you purchased it for travel in Europe, especially France, it doesn't work on automated petrol stations. In Europe, these pay at pump type stations are more popular than staffed kiosks (it's the future, we won't need humans). Not only will the card be declined, but you are stood in an embarrassing queue, and then you have to resort to your usual credit card, which rips you off. Apparently this piece of info is in the T&C, buried deep in the hundreds of pages of waffle.
So when you come back to UK, you have a large amount of euros still on the PO card, which they then tell you is buyable back at an extortionate rate, 1.45 at today's rate! It also takes 15 working days to get your money back, as they have to email, text or write to your home address with a code, which then has to be taken in person to a post office to exchange back. It CANNOT be done online.
Also, each time your card is declined, it holds back an amount of euros, usually over 100, until the cancelled or declined transaction is verified.
In future I'll just use my 1st Direct credit card, and take the hit.
What a PO fiasco. No wonder they're going under.

joeyd2006 wrote: »

Does anyone know if I could sign up to an interest free card alongside a travel card and transfer the balance to that, thus negating the charges on both?