Greece warning

paulclan said:
how will tourists use a credit card,if the Taverna owners, fuel suppliers, refuse to accept them at all, in an effort to avoid revealing turnover ,as per usual?
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OR4751 said:
From what I understand, there is no limit to the amount you can spend on card purchases
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How's that going to help if the man in the restaurant won't accept it?

Pete
 
prv said:
How's that going to help if the man in the restaurant won't accept it?

Pete
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Find a restaurant that will, there are plenty around. The Greeks aren't stupid. Any income is good, if they have the means to take a credit/debit card for a purchase they will, if cash is not offered.
 
telford_mike said:
Sami this morning, 1 out of the 3 ATMs working - the one at the post office. No queues.
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I only use the Alpha bank ATM in Sami, I seem to remember there are four ATMs , Alpha, Euro, one in the post office, and one behind it. The Alpha ATM was working yesterday, it can and does run dry, but normally gets topped up.
 
Preveza 30th June. Arrived at Town Marina about 1200 hrs. 1230 hrs, Marina accepts cash only - even for longer term moorings (more than 3 days). 1500 hrs, bank ATM allow as much cash on a UK debit card up to limit set by UK bank. 1530 hrs supermarket accepts UK debit card for €55 of food and booze.
 
NornaBiron said:
Find a restaurant that will, there are plenty around. The Greeks aren't stupid. Any income is good, if they have the means to take a credit/debit card for a purchase they will, if cash is not offered.
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One clear problem is if your suppliers demand cash and the banks are closed the only source of that cash is customers.

I for one would be wary of taking plastic in one currency that may be arbitrarily changed to another currency at an unkown rate before i can get my hands on it.
 
I realise I'm at the richer end of a relatively rich island, but reading the posts on here, and talking to friends who are sailing all over Greece, the reports of the sky falling in are wildly exaggerated. Life seems to be going on (for the non-Greeks at least) much as it ever did. Crisis, what crisis?
 
Tony Cross said:
I realise I'm at the richer end of a relatively rich island, but reading the posts on here, and talking to friends who are sailing all over Greece, the reports of the sky falling in are wildly exaggerated. Life seems to be going on (for the non-Greeks at least) much as it ever did. Crisis, what crisis?
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Reports of the sky falling in seem to originate from Daily wail reading brit tourists, some of them seem quite shocked that life is going on as normal, I visited the capital Argostoli yesterday, ATMs working and no queues, plenty petrol. no queues, Lidl and Alpha Vita stocked up with food, the usual café trade going on, even the sun was shining:)
 
This is Greece , nothing much is going to change , in a few days a solution will be found , one way or the other , people will continued to avoid paying taxes , motorcycle will still ride without helmets, shops will still put some of there taking in their back pocket , smokers will still smoke in restaurants, PP will still be sitting around in they office , school children heading for school with. Coffee in there had , the richer will get richer while the poorer get poorer , there be no greek running round screaming the sky fallen on his head , life will just go no ad Normal and we all be back taking about the cruising tax .
Until it's all start again .
 
Sitting on Lefkas quay eating our tea drinking Mythos, the cash machine opposite has had a steady stream of people taking money out for the last 2 days which no one would bat an eye to in the UK but hey. ... tried to buy some solar panels and credit cards were not going to be accepted til next week, til the dust settles :-) But this is Greece and life goes on and what a wonderful life it is :-)
 
Tony Cross said:
I realise I'm at the richer end of a relatively rich island, but reading the posts on here, and talking to friends who are sailing all over Greece, the reports of the sky falling in are wildly exaggerated. Life seems to be going on (for the non-Greeks at least) much as it ever did. Crisis, what crisis?
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Here on Evvoia this morning three of the four petrol stations in the town where I now am were out of petrol ... the fourth had a queue of 15 cars as I passed and was restricting each to 25 euros worth. There was no diesel. "The tanker will be coming tomorrow" they said. I suspect Greek motorists may be getting windy a little early, but a taste of things to come?
 
I was told today that some stations have no fuel as they pay their suppliers by cheque , the tanker drivers want cash payments only ,
therefore cash is , once again , King
,in Greece !
 
AndrewB said:
Here on Evvoia this morning three of the four petrol stations in the town where I now am were out of petrol ... the fourth had a queue of 15 cars as I passed and was restricting each to 25 euros worth. There was no diesel. "The tanker will be coming tomorrow" they said. I suspect Greek motorists may be getting windy a little early, but a taste of things to come?
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I would have thought that the closer you get to Athens (and perhaps Thessaloniki) the more problems you're likely to see? There are just so many more people in the big cities.....
 
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