My experience: Mombasa Backpackers took my Visa after swiping three times, but the system felt outdated. Another place in Kisumu only dealt in cash, p...

I wouldn’t rely fully on cards in Kazakhstan hostels. The bigger, newer hostels like Wanderlust in Almaty are card-friendly, but the older Soviet-era ...

Honestly, it got tiring being told “machine not working” in Amman. Stayed in a hostel near the Roman Theater and had to go find a Bank of Jordan ATM a...

Iceland was the most cashless trip I’ve done. Stayed at Bus Hostel Reykjavik and another near Myvatn, and both preferred card. The receptionist even s...

I actually liked that some hostels in Greece prefer cash - felt more personal. In Athens, my card worked at a hip hostel near Exarchia, but on Naxos a...

Honestly, it was a bit stressful. I stayed in a hostel in Labadi, and the guy at reception kept saying “the machine will work soon.” It never did. I h...

I spent two weeks in Estonia, stayed in three hostels - two in Tallinn and one in Tartu - and none asked for cash. In fact, one place in Tartu near Ra...

It got annoying after a while in Egypt. Hostels around Luxor and Aswan were cash only, and the card excuse was always “machine broken.” Sometimes even...

Honestly, hostels in the Cook Islands are charming but behind on payments. I stayed at one near Titikaveka and they said their card machine hadn’t wor...