Telephones While Travelling

[Jodie259]

You can usually pick up phone cards in the destination country. Probably difficult to actually get one in Australia for use overseas.

I recommend you get incoming & outgoing calls blocked on your mobile phone - but allow SMS's.

Every time I travel o/s we SMS back and forth and it's the same cost.

Then if you grab a phone card in NZ - you can use any public or private phone - and dial out for the cost of a local call... then the credit comes off the phone card to call o/s. Rather then using your mobile to make calls or receive calls.

We use phone cards to call my DH's family in Israel. A $20 card lasts us about 9 months - with heaps of phone calls.