Israel isn’t purely cash or card - it’s both. Larger hostels in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem take card easily, but smaller family-run places outside the cit...

Ireland is one of the easiest places for card payments in Europe. My hostel in Galway City even preferred card and had tap-to-pay terminals. Same in D...

I found Honduras quite cash-heavy. My hostel in La Ceiba said their card machine was “broken” for weeks, so I had to withdraw lempira from a nearby AT...

I booked a hostel online in St Peter Port and when I arrived, they had no issue taking my Visa. Another guesthouse I stayed in also had a card termina...

My experience: in Tbilisi, card was fine in the bigger hostels near Freedom Square, but in Gori and Kutaisi, hostels wanted cash. Bank of Georgia ATMs...

Fiji’s hostels almost always want cash. In Nadi, I had to walk to a BSP ATM to pay, and in Coral Coast it was the same story. Only one place in Suva t...

Honestly, I carried Danish kroner expecting I’d need them, but every hostel in Tórshavn and Klaksvík insisted on card. The Faroes run on modern infras...

I’ve backpacked across the island, and hostels rarely ran my card successfully. In Puerto Plata, the hostel owner claimed their terminal was broken fo...

I traveled through Prague, Brno, and Ostrava and never had to use cash at check-in. Every hostel had a card terminal and some even encouraged card to ...