Phoning Home

[MixedUpRichard]

What's the best and cheapest way of phoning home?

We don't have tri-band mobiles and want to contact home every now and again during our two week break.

What's the best way of phoning the UK? Can you buy a cheap phone card to use? Where can you get it?

If not, how else do you recommend phoning the UK?

All help and advice welcome

Richard

 

[Aceman88888]

You can pick up a cheap pre paid card and can usually use it from either a payphone or your accomodation phone (check for hotel costs first though). Usually found on the checkout rack at all the major supermarkets.

 

[Netty]

You can pick up a cheap pre paid card and can usually use it from either a payphone or your accomodation phone (check for hotel costs first though). Usually found on the checkout rack at all the major supermarkets.

as aceman says, any major supermarkets. we get ours from walmart. you should have no problem getting one at all.

 

[florida sun]

Hi

I actually bought a travel phone card from the post office over here, it cost me £10 and I had quite a few uses out of it.

Hope that helps.

Sue

 

[rosiejo]

DONT buy a phone card from Eckerd (they haveone in the Florida Mall) we got about 20 minutes out of it! Head to Walgreens instead - there's one on the 192 as you head west between sherberth road (the secret entrance to WDW) and the publix supermarket.

I've had quite a few walgreens phone cards and they last for ages - even calling uk mobiles back home. On a trip to NYC once I actually bagged a buy one get one free offer! Wish I'd bought a few :0)

 

[Strommie]

I agree....we have found the Walgreens cards to be the best ones we have tried

 

[edenlee]

Hi
We always buy our phone cards from the flea market on 192 - there is ane lectrical stall and the oriental/asian woman who owns it (sorry can't remember her name) is great. SHe showed us how to use the card - sold us the cheapest one too

 

[mrsminniemouse]

I always text my mum to say when we are at the hotel, giving her the phone number and room number. She calls me after I text her and we chat then. It doesn't cost her too much from her NTL phone.

Mandy

 

[Goofyish]

In the past we have bought a card from Lunn Poly before we go. Costs £10 and seemed to last ages. I think we phoned home about 4 time and still had time left on it. You also know you have the card available as soon as you arrive in Florida without having to make a trip to get a US card.

 

[SammieG]

we have a calling card. It costs about 10 cents a minute I think.. (Infact it costs us less to call home from the USA than it does in the UK!) www.global-call.net

we have had this card for years. we charge it up with about £20 every so often. When my mother was alive I used to call her for at least half an hour every day when we were at Disney. Sadly I dont have the same need to call home any more so the card isnt used as much. But it lasted for ages.

 

[paulh]

look on the phonecard in the small print on the back it tells you how much an international rate is some cards its $1.25 a mim and outhers its $0.40 a min if you use a phonecard from a payphone a charge applys if you use it from a fixed phone hotel room no charge check with your frount desk if its free to phone a freephone number from your room as you phone one first to conect to use the card we were in a dvc resort and it was free .we bought a card from target about $15.00 this gave us 40 min international time when we called from a payphone 3 min removed from card was taken from our card we would use it in the waterparks DW used to like a certien time to phone home so ifyou made lots of short cals from a payphone lots of 3 min of but fewer calls but spent longer talking worked out better
Paulh

 

[Ash aka sky]

I use a internet calling card to phone my family back in the UK... it works the same way as a regular calling card except that you pay for it online and print the ID number etc... then when in the US you use a 1-800 access number enter your pin and dial your number and it costs about 2.4 cents per min for land lines (more for cell phones about 30 cents per min).

www.masterbell.com

DO NOT I repeat DO NOT buy calling cards from gas stations and small convience stores they are a RIP OFF. Walmart is probably your best bet or if you know anyone in the US have them get you a card from sams club.

 

[Julia Ann]

Another way of contacting home is by emailing - we stayed at Quality Inn International on International Drive in 2003 and they had internet facility in the lobby next to the public phones. It was about a dollar for 3 minutes. (if you can type fast then thats a lot of time!) We found this easier cos we didn't have to think about the time difference, although my mom and dad haven't got email, i emailed my sister and asked her to pass the message onto to mom and dad. Then half way through the week i checked my hotmail again and she had emailed me back with what they had been up to - which of course wasn't as exciting as our week, it was the first time i'd done this and found it easier than phoning.
good luck!