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How do I list my phone number on contact form

I have tried everything and read how to —but can’t figure this out.
I am attempting to fill out a contact form to get information from a hotel in Scotland. They ask for my phone number and I keep getting error message. What am I doing wrong? I live in the USA.

Posted by
1708 posts

It could be the format of your phone number, which will be a different format to a UK number. Maybe you can leave that blank and include an email address in the text of the form?

Posted by
7484 posts

Are you including the initial 00 exit code before the 1 (international code)?

Posted by
252 posts

Try adding +1 (US code) before your phone number.

That worked for me when I received a similar error message.

Good luck

Posted by
1916 posts

If your previous post stating you don't have a cell phone is accurate, then really there's no reason to include a phone number. They'd likely only be trying to text you just prior to or during your stay. If it's mandatory to include, make sure you are including +1. They'd need to reach you via email so make sure you provide that info.

Posted by
37 posts

Thanks for the replies. I entered my phone number is both the phone number blank and subject blank and it went through. Hopefully I will get a reply.

Posted by
1197 posts

I've found that the "less traveled" places often aren't set up for non-UK/EU numbers. If I owned a business in Scotland, I wouldn't be texting or calling US numbers, since there's a toll. Our recent trip to Barra "required" a deposit on a room, and the host emailed instructions on how to do several payment systems, none supported from the US. Once they realized we were from the USA, they said to skip it, but it took a few exchanges and a pinky promise to show up. On our May trip, even though our US carrier's international roaming rates were reasonable, I added a second esim for a UK number for restaurant reservations, bar enquires, boats tours, etc.

Posted by
431 posts

there is in increasing issue with website forms being designed by people who don't understand phone numbers.

The main standard (outside half a dozen big cities) of UK landline number was the area code followed by the number and since the day area codes were invented the format for writing them had a space between the two parts. Now many websites will tell you the number is wrong if you include the space. Same with mobile numbers, except now they sometimes also expect the leading 0 to be replaced by +44. So if a UK website designers struggle with UK numbers I can imagine all sorts of problems with foreign numbers!

But for foreign numbers you will always need to include the country access code how ever well designed the site is, so for north america it will start +1 (or 001 in UK and most of Europe).