Ryanair's latest trick

[danieln]

After my latest Ryanair booking, I discovered something rather unpleasant. I booked a flight for 3 people from Charleroi to Marrakesh for a total price of € 379 and some change. After entering the payment details of my prepaid master card (which has GBP as standard currency), I noticed that Ryanair took GBP 352,02 from my card, which is £ 20 more than the official exchange rate. They use a ridiculous currency rate for transactions in euro with GBP cards. In my honest opinion, this is theft. If I would have paid with a normal credit card, the 3x2x5 euros handling costs would have been almost as expensive.

So watch out if you pay large amounts with your "handling fee free" prepay Master Card!

[Gruenmann]

Yeah, i expierienced the same, they have their exange rate and if you uncheck the box you can have a different exangerate. I unchecked this box for my last booking an the result was as following:
price: 20€
ryanair would charge me 18,70 Pound with their exangerate
after unchecking the box 17,84 Pound where used from my masterprepaid...
Saves 1€ at the end, which is 5% of the price.