In Reply to: paying hotel in USD cash posted by tannalee on Monday, 13. October 2008 at 19:56 Bali Time:
$100.00 denominations with no rips or nicks or writing on them and everything will be just fine.
It's still a lottery as the conversion is done on the day you pay.
To keep the hotel honest check the midrate on xe.com. It's probably the midrate which shows on the forum exchanger.