Cruise Question Of the Day

JoeyandDavid · May 1, 2008

Joe and Joan suggested this Question for today.. so .,.....

Todays Question:

Do you let your credit card company know that you are traveling both domestically and internationally?

rogue · May 1, 2008

Always, for international. We never have for domestic vacations.

Joanandjoe · May 1, 2008

Always for international vacations. For domestic vacations, yes if they're more than about 100 miles away. For example, we will notify the credit card companies before our Vancouver and Alaska trip later this month.

kmills · May 1, 2008

No Had never thought about it. But I think it might be a good idea.

cruisetarp · May 1, 2008

We always notify our company if we will be away for more than a day or so and especially if we will have hotel bills, restaurants and lots of shopping going on.

TheSkipper · May 1, 2008

Always for international travel and for domestic when we are going to area where we do not normally or routinely go. We are in Albuquerque, Phoenix, Sedona, San Diego, etc. every year so don't bother, but when we fly to NYC we do notify them.

zebra · May 1, 2008

Internationally always..... but never for the contiguous states. We did notify them for Hawaii and Alaska. We traveled for a year all around the US and were never once contacted by the CC companies regarding strange activity on our cards....... only the Canada episode.

DebbieandJerry · May 1, 2008

Glad to hear that I'm not the only anal retentative in this group of "crazies". Not only do we notify the credit card company, but I stop the newspaper (especially when we're gone for an extended period of time), I stop the mail (and personally talk to the mailman), AND, I notify the local sheriff that we are leaving. They cruise by our house at least once a day (different times). They ask for the make/model license of any vehicle that is in the carport or driveway or any that should be there. They keep a log of all vehicles in and around the house. It's kind of sad that we have to take these precautions. Sign of the times, no doubt.