<p>Son is traveling to Bermuda; I am looking for a travelers calling card, which he can use to call us from there? Any idea.</p>
<p>I've seen international calling cards in drugstores & WalMart.</p>
<p>The best deals are often in-country--at internet bars or corner groceries. A good card will charge 3-6 cents a minute for calls to the US, with a 30 cent connection charge.</p>
<p>Are these cards easily available around the hotels? Son is a HS teenager going on a musical trip, so I am not sure how much time he has had on his hands. Thanks for the Walmart idea.</p>
<p>If your son has a GSM cell phone (my kids' photo cell phones are), you can add international coverage to it for a small monthly rate. I add international coverage to my D's phone when she's in London for all of $7 a month--and I can then actually call her at her regular number, as amazing as it sounds. The cost per minute then runs about $1/minute, but the total amount---for a huge amount of peace of mind---was only about $20 the last time she went to London. (She learned to answer her phone "I'm fine, I'm safe, Love you too, Bye.") And it meant our British cousin could call her easily--so she actually saw her cousin. (I bought international calling cards here for one trip but was completely unable to get them to work, BTW.)</p>
<p>When I went to Europe last summer you could make calls from the hotel rooms and then pay at the desk with cash or credit card.</p>
<p>AAARGH. Don't do that (make calls from the hotel room). The surcharge that can be added is incredible. I had a work trip to Europe and stayed in Stockholm where my boss used the phone extensively (I had a GSM phone). We were there only two nights and his phone bill (with the surcharges added in) was over $1200.00!!! I honestly thought he would faint. His knees were so wobbly.</p>