Originally Posted by FlyerJosh

TD,

The ABSOLUTE BEST phone deal you can have for international travel is to use Skype in lieu of a phone card.

Of course you have to have a laptop and some sort of mic/speaker that you can use...

I recently traveled to the Caribbean (St. Kitts) for work. Just to make a phone call from the hotel room to an international calling card number (ie connect to their system to call home) cost $.20 a minute. Then you pay for the actual call.

Of course I had to pay to get online ($7/day), but then using Skype I could call back to the states for something like $.02 a min.