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by sofixa 1217 days ago
This is entirely a Dutch issue. Their banking system is extremely weird and they consider Visa and MasterCard to be credit cards (even if it literally says "DEBIT" on the card itself), and thus they aren't accepted in a lot of places, only Maestros (which don't work for everything) are. Thankfully that's changing now and my recent trips there didn't require keeping cash to pay.