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Calling our Agriturismo in Italy

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We'll be driving from Genoa to near Siena and will be arriving at our rental apartment in the evening on a Sunday. The apartment we'll be staying at in Italy wants us to call them 30 minutes before we arrive. To avoid high cell phone fees, I would like to purchase a calling card and use a pay phone. However, I've read that pay phones are becoming extinct in Europe. I'm also concerned whether we'll happen to be near a phone 30 minutes before we arrive (we'll be in a car driving in an unfamiliar Italy). Any advice on how I should handle this?

Thanks.

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Get yourself an unlocked GSM cell phone and buy a SIM card when you get to Italy. You will then have an Italian phone number. Rick discusses this in his books.

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One word of caution about buying a sim in Italy to make calls. I did that and was not able to understand the prompts (in Italian of course) for making a call. It was halfway through our 3 weeks in Italy before i found someone who could explain it to me! If you currently have a phone that will work in Europe and plan to only make this call, it would be easier and less expensive to just use your phone to call.

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Have you considered Skype as a possibility?

I created an account and installed the app on my Samsung phone. Then I purchased $10 in Skype credits. As long as I'm in wifi range, I can dial telephone numbers anywhere at a fraction of mobile rates.

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