renting cars\rooms without credit card

julie_25

After briefly using credit cards and running up a bill of £16,000 I sent them back and replaced them with a Visa Electron.

I know work as a rep and increasingly I am having trouble booking hotel rooms and booking cars. Was recently left without a car in Krakow after the hire company suddenly refused to accept a debt card.

So anyone with a solution

jonesMUFCforever

Take the bus!

riad_2

Apply for a credit card and just be strict about not using it except for these types of purchases.

There's no way of getting round it. Many hotels and car hire companies simply *WON'T* accept a debit card. In such instances it's best keep a credit card as a backup!

julie_25

ejones999 talk sense or don't post

It is a very recent thing, it was in February that I first had a problem. Since then hiring a card without a credit card has become harder and last week I had trouble with a hotel room.

Why is it that these companies are not accepting debit cards now

jonesMUFCforever

What's wrong with public transport?
You had the problem with credit card I've given you an alternative!

System

As riad says get a CC and be strict with it. I have a CC that I use purely for hotel/travel expenses that I can reclaim from my employer. It therefore gets paid off each month.

ejones999 wrote: »

What's wrong with public transport?

Thus speaks somebody who doesn't do much travelling on company business in strange towns/countries normally on a very tight time schedule.

Dylanwing

Take the bus!

The trams are better in Krakow, the busses are a bit ropey. Or was the bus an alternative for a hotel? Catch an all-night bus from Krakow to Warsaw to get a nights sleep!
Can you get a Company credit card?

simonleblank

I use an Abbey debit card that has VISA debit facility for this purpese, HTH

jonesMUFCforever

!!!!!! wrote: »

As riad says get a CC and be strict with it. I have a CC that I use purely for hotel/travel expenses that I can reclaim from my employer. It therefore gets paid off each month.



Thus speaks somebody who doesn't do much travelling on company business in strange towns/countries normally on a very tight time schedule.

You're right there - just as I'm not daft enough to rack up £16000 in credit card debts.

Dylanwing

Ejones - Come on, there are worse crimes than running up debt. Murder, robbery, watching Bristol Rovers or having a picnic in a lay-by. And we don't want the busses full of slick suits all yelling 'I'm on a bus' into their mobiles!

marksandsparksgal

Ejones, funny but that's why some new people get a bit narked on here sometimes!
Pls be nice to all MoneySavers. :money:

Anyways, in response to the OP, I don't think there is a way round it, hotels usually take the credit card details if you do a runner/ trash the place, then they have a way of getting the money back.

As someone else has said, I don't think there is a way around it. Perhaps you could get a card in association with your company, then you know if you run up stupid bills on it that you're in big trouble with the boss!