Credit card

Traveling with a credit card simplifies a lot and most countries nowadays accept credit cards in one form or the other, also Jamaica. The other night we had this dinner at the hotel and wanted to use our credit card to pay. We were first told to return to our room as the boss is currently out and only he can operate the credit card terminal. A bit later the boss himself indeed knocked on our door with the credit card terminal in his hands. My first thought was, wow, in room payment, that’s great. But he only came to explain that the signal is poor up here and we should go down. Down I went with him where he was still not satisfied. Let’s try the parking lot. Also there apparently no signal. He proposed to drive to the next town as the connection there is apparently better. It was about 22.00 when we left the hotel in his car driving to Port Antonio. On a parking lot he opened the window in the roof of the car and held the terminal out of it – finally it worked…