When traveling in Europe our best advice is to buy a prepaid phone card before you leave. We offer a variety of AT&T Phonecards that will allow you to call home from abroad. Using the international origination calling cards is simple and can be a great way to save money on your trip. Remember, just because you are on vacation does not mean things have stopped back home. If you do need to communicate with someone at home, or simply call ahead to your next hotel to confirm your reservation, here’s some advice.

To phone the U.S. from Europe first dial the international access code (00) and then the U.S. country code (1), next dial the area code and phone number as usual.

The most expensive call home is from your hotel room. There are not laws governing how much a hotel can charge you for a phone call in Europe. If you want to make a reasonably priced call, go outside and use our phone cards from a pay phone. Opur rates are as low as fifteen cents per minute to call from the UK to the USA. If you are calling the US from abroad, remember the time difference so your call isn't coming in the middle of the night.

There are two types of pay phones in Europe; the traditional phone that accepts coins, and calling card phones. Calling card phones have almost made coin phones obsolete. Thus, you really do need to have a phone card to call back from abroad. Once you purchase the calling card to bring with you, make sure you get the access numbers needed to call from overseas.

Internet cafes are becoming very popular in Europe. If you want to keep in touch with home or work while traveling, set up a Hotmail account, or learn how to access your regular e-mail from a remote computer. Then you can stop by a café, have a cup of coffee, and log on to the Internet to access your email. Fees are based on the length of time you use the computer. Some hotels have a internet computers available for guest use.

To phone Europe from the U.S. first dial the international access code (011) and then the country code and city code that you are calling, and finally the specific number. Pushing # after dialing speeds up the calling process. Listed at the bottom of this section are country codes for many European countries. Occasionally a telephone number for Europe will have an extra 0 at the front that you will drop when dialing.

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