08 Feb 2025
I did the UNESCO Churches tour with Maria on January 19th, along with my elderly parents. We had a nice time on the tour, but it def ended on a sour note:
As we were being dropped off at our hotel, I was getting out my credit card to pay the driver and was unexpectedly notified that it had to be CASH ONLY. I was like "what, really??" She said, "yes."
The price of tour with transfer was about 450 euros, and I don't walk around with that kind of cash, so I'm immediately stressing out trying to juggle helping my elderly parents with their luggage while Maria wants me to cough up the cash. She ended up driving me around in the dark trying to find an ATM, we eventually found one and I paid an extra 15% to the ATM along with the ATM access fee and non-Chase Bank ATM fee. So it cost me about an extra $130 USD because either her or iTaxi decided to surprise me with a cash-only bill.
Also, if you look at iTaxi's website FAQ it says that they accept cards.
This situation was completely avoidable on the part of the tour operator, but I guess they'd prefer to create a substandard, stressful, and costly customer experience