Paying for travel with crypto used to mean finding the one hotel in town that accepted Bitcoin. In 2026 it means the opposite problem: choosing between five different payment paths, each with different fees, speed and cashback. This guide walks through all of them.
Path 1 — Pay direct from your wallet
Connect Phantom, Solflare or Coinbase Wallet at checkout and settle in USDC or SOL. FurlPay locks your exchange rate for 15 minutes, so the price you see is the price that settles — even if the market moves while you're finding your hardware wallet.
- • Best for: crypto-native users
- • Settlement: instant via x402 on Base or Solana
- • Cashback: 2–7% in USDC depending on your tier
Path 2 — FurlPay balance
If you already hold a FurlPay balance, one tap pays the booking with no wallet pop-ups and no network fees. Refunds land back in the balance instantly on cancellation.
Path 3 — Single-use virtual Visa card
For merchants that only take cards, FurlPay generates a one-time Visa VCN funded from your stablecoin balance. The card is MCC-locked to travel merchants and dies after one authorization — card-not-present fraud simply has nothing to steal.
Quotes, refunds and the Travel Rule
Checkout shows a quote for 15 minutes, and FurlPay's server calculates the amount again when you book. Cancellations follow the property's policy. Travel Rule information collection for larger crypto payments is planned and not yet part of checkout.