to expect most places, especially touristy ones, to take Visa debit card?

[UnquietDad]

So here is what happened. DD and I decided to go up in the Llandudno cable-car while DS, DW and my mum got the tram.

They were halfway up before we even got halfway in the queue - there were a lot of people. It was a bank holiday weekend. We expected that. After queuing for 40 minutes in the hot sun we finally got to the ticket office and I presented my Visa debit card for the not-inconsiderable sum of ten quid for a return for me and DD.

"Sorry, it's cash-only."

WTF????

Had no cash. had to go bacik down into town and have a miserable lunch while the rest of them enjoyed themselves up on the Great Orme.
I was

No signs. No notices. Nothing on any of the brochures or websites. You'd think there would be something on the steps up to the ticket-office to alert you to the fact that they only took cash.

Cash!!
In 2007!!!

Twenty years ago - even ten - you'd expect to look for the Visa sign to check they took cards. These days, you expect it to be the default - don't you? The ironic thing is that, in the days before card-swipers, they could have done it with one of those little hand-held manual things where you signed a long slip.

So - I ask for the first time on here - am I ?

The same goes for debit cards, although the percentage cost of the transaction is slightly lower than for credit cards.

I've just come to expect it. Even the most out-of-the way places in the Lakes seemed to take cards, so I assumed it would be the same in Wales. Didn't realise the cost implications were so high. Oh well.

after years of being an old fashioned Cash or Cheque business we relented and started to accept Cards last year.

Already the card use accounts for around 70%
of turnover and its only going to move one way.

Down sides are the reconciliations, which can be hard work.

+ves include much less cash about the place, no more bounced cheques.

I always carry cash when away from home as well as cards having had similar experiences