It's really not so bad anymore as it used to be. Credit cards are accepted in most stores or supermarkets, even "Netto" which is a discount-store and which started accepting Visa just last year. Other stores like "Real" and "Kaisers" will accept Visa, even many small shops will accept it.
Then again the Burger King at Alexanderplatz will for some reason *not* accept any credit card, while the McDonalds which is ~50 meters away will. This is assuming you want to eat at those places while you're in Berlin, obviously there's great food here that you could try rather than go to the familiar fast-food chains.. If you're going to go for a döner kebab prepare some cash! In some cases they might ask you for your ID (e.g. passport). On 4/26/16, Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:25:41 +0000 > schrieb Kagamin <[email protected]>: > >> On Monday, 25 April 2016 at 09:16:11 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> > Germany is a cash-in-hand country. Credit cards are rejected >> > in most places that I've tried. >> >> You mean debit cards are accepted? Anyway why credit cards? >> Aren't credit money more expensive than debit? The overdraft >> limit is just a fixed offset from zero and you pay extra >> interest, one could just imagine zero balance at his preferred >> offset and keep it there. > > The girocard (sometimes called EC card) debit card system is accepted at > most places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girocard IIRC you need a > german bank account though to own such a card ;-) >
