Airline tickets, checked bag fees, hotel bookings, outrageous rental car prices — these are the vacation costs you’ve probably budgeted for. But when you travel abroad, you may also need to plan for foreign transaction fees every time you swipe your card.
Some debit and credit card issuers offer cards without any foreign transaction fees, but if you don’t have one of these in your wallet, you could spend upwards of 4% of the total transaction price each time you buy a cup of gelato, purchase a ticket to a museum or swipe your card to use the train system.
