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Halifax: Clarity Credit Card reviews

Name: Clarity Credit Card
Rating: 4.29 (258 reviews)

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4.16

Based on 258 reviews, last reviewed 2nd Mar 2025

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Latest highest rating:

4

Perfect for Travelling The Halifax Clarity credit card offers zero commission purchases in foreign currencies making it great for travelling. Reviewed on: 2nd March 2025

Latest lowest rating:

1

Card blocked whilst abroad. Card blocked whilst abroad. After 3 days not resolved. Debacle. Many times unsuccessful calls and no way to use ebanking app to help. Reviewed on: 20th September 2024

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Halifax Clarity Credit Card reviews (258)

Review of the Halifax, Clarity Credit Card:

Good for spending abroad, bad for paying off early

This is a great credit card for spending while abroad at a really good rate. I was a big fan but then they changed the system for paying off the debt early (it would no longer reduce the direct debit charge, and I kept ending up in credit) and if you wanted to stop paying twice you had to cancel and restart the direct debit each time which is just a massive hassle. This wouldn't be such a problem if it weren't for the fact that ATM withdrawals start charging interest straight away, insentivising you to pay that debt back as soon as possible. Reviewed on: 16th May 2020

Foreign Holiday card

Clarity card is great for using abroad as you get the exchange rate on the day ad no charge for using it. Reviewed on: 30th April 2020

Great Card for abroad

This is a great card to use when travelling abroad, there is no fee when used as a credit card, never go anwhere without it Reviewed on: 28th April 2020

clarity

never ever a problem works every time Reviewed on: 28th April 2020

Great credit card for travelling

The Clarity Credit card has been incredibly useful while going overseas. It converts one currency into GBP so I'm not charged any fees, which has made my life a lot easier while travelling. Reviewed on: 27th April 2020

useful product

this is a unique credit card for going away. very good product. Reviewed on: 27th April 2020

Great for using abroad

Great card for using whilst on holiday - excellent rate and no additional charges. Reviewed on: 27th April 2020

GREAT CARD

FANTASTIC FOR TRAVEL AND GETTING LOCAL CURRENCY AT GOOD RATES Reviewed on: 6th February 2020

Great service and value

Using Clarity CC abroad resulted in no extra charges and excellent Exchange Rates Reviewed on: 28th January 2020

Falls from grace

This was a great credit card for spending money abroad - affordable and simple to use. However they have recently changed the rules so that paying the money back early - for example to reduce the interest charged on cash withdrawals - does not reduce the direct debit charge for the next month. After several instances where my credit card was significantly in the positive I have been left with no choice but to cancel the direct debit and so am now avoiding using it where possible Reviewed on: 25th January 2020

Too unreliable

Several years ago we got this for use abroad and it has been more trouble than it’s worth. Even if we pre advise of a trip (which they say we don’t need to do) any payment is invariably blocked. Twice they’ve assumed fraud and cancelled the card (and will only send a replacement to your home address within a week) so we couldn’t use it again for the rest of the trip. We end up using our UK card which costs far more than using a card that is less competitive than Clarity but does actually work when abroad. So now we just take lots of cash (at online rates) and whatever is left is then a bonus when we go away next time! Reviewed on: 12th January 2020

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