calling home from turkey - cheapest way

[efes shareholder]

I need to call home when I am away and have to call an orange mobile number

What is the cheapest way to do this?

I have skype on my 3 mobile and understand I can buy credit to call a uk mobile number? Has anyone done this , does it work?

Is it better just to buy a phone card and use the local phone box?

The mobile I need to contact is an orange mobile.

[blondie]

I'd buy a phone card and just use one of the local boxes, to be honest. The cards last for ages - we bought one for 5TL and hardly used any of the credit on it in the phone calls we made.

[tamii]

can't help with the skype question, but the cheapest way to call home - either to a landline or a mobile - is using a phone card. i've used my mobile before and the call charges have been horrendous! the phone cards are cheap and you last for a decent time.
hopefully someone else will know about the skype and if that will be a cheaper option for you

[laura180306]

My hubby took his mobile with us last year and when we got back we found out he'd been charged over £20 for 2 x 5minute phone calls!! We bought a 10TL phonecard and it lasted us the whole 2 weeks we were away, calling both our parents twice.

[miss_kimmie]

f you can talk skype to skype you could get away with going to an internet cafe and paying a few lira for half an hour/an hour. Other than that, definately a phonecard if you're going to be phoning often or for a considerable amount of time.

[babs 30]

Hi,
I used phone cards to phone home landlines,I bought one last year
and still had credit on it to use this year. I found the cheapest time
to phone was after 8pm turkey time. Hope this helps.

[John V]

Phone card "cheap as chips" from the supermarket.

[adewolves]

The ones in the supermarkets are great and cheap. We bought one off the rep on the transfer last time we went, what a pain in the rear that was. It had a scratch part where you revealed a number. The number was bigger than the bloody world debt, ended up binning it and going to supermarket.

[davoal2]

I need to call home when I am away and have to call an orange mobile number

What is the cheapest way to do this?

I have skype on my 3 mobile and understand I can buy credit to call a uk mobile number? Has anyone done this , does it work?

Is it better just to buy a phone card and use the local phone box?

The mobile I need to contact is an orange mobile.

Hi i took my laptop this year and i made several calls back to the uk on a daily basis using skype,i only put £5 credit on and i only used £3 for the whole 2 weeks there. We had a wifi connection at the apartments and a few bars we used to visit so never a problem,The calling rate was something like 2p min. It for me was certainly the cheapest method for me calling the uk.

[JT]

connect to skype as said using the wifi at bars then call from skype