Calling Home?

[Emmieooo]

I had planned on bringing a prepaid phone card to call home when Im in Nassau. We have a toddler that were leaving at Grandmas and this was my chance to check in. But Ive been reading that you can only use a bahamian phone card that you buy at port. Anyone have any info on this? Also if this is my only way to use a phone that isnt my cellphone. How much time to the US do you get for your money. Thanks for any info.

[scubagirrl]

I had planned on bringing a prepaid phone card to call home when Im in Nassau. We have a toddler that were leaving at Grandmas and this was my chance to check in. But Ive been reading that you can only use a bahamian phone card that you buy at port. Anyone have any info on this? Also if this is my only way to use a phone that isnt my cellphone. How much time to the US do you get for your money. Thanks for any info.

 

Buy a phone card when you get to the bahamas .. they sell them everywhere.. and usi it from a pay phone.. There are plenty in the port area.

 

Cards are sold in $5, $10 and $20 denominations. About $.40 cents a minutes last I used one.

[Emmieooo]

Great! Thank you so much for the info

[CruisinCrow]

Scubagirrl, are the phones in or near Festival Place? We want to call one of the hotels once we get into port. Will they take US coins? How much for a local call?

[scubagirrl]

Scubagirrl, are the phones in or near Festival Place? We want to call one of the hotels once we get into port. Will they take US coins? How much for a local call?

 

There's a phone bank near festival place. They take US coins, but I don't know what a local call goes for these days.

[CruisinCrow]

Thanks!

[drivinontheleft]

I was looking for this exact information! :D

[CruisinCrow]

Just back from Nassau. The public phones are right on the piers when you get off the ship. I think there is a bank of phones on each pier. We didn't end up using them so I don't know how much a call costs.

[SensFan11]

We had trouble using our AT&T prepaid long distance card at the cellphones at the port terminal in Nassau on Tuesday, March 30th...then again, I think it was more a problem with the user (me) than with the card.

 

The phones inside the building have a number of buttons on them for direct service with foreign carriers...first problem was I misread the label and pressed the button for "AT&T Canada" (which went out of business many years ago)...figured out my problem and then correctly pressed "USA Direct". After it rings and connects to AT&T and it asks you to "please dial the number you are calling"...according to the instructions I read online after I got home, you're then supposed to dial the "1-888" access number for YOUR prepaid card, but leaving out the first "1"...I think my mistake was I dialed the full "1-888" number. So, I couldn't get it to work...but it's supposed to.

 

I had a similar challenge using this same card this week from Canada...online the instructions were to first dial an access number...but the 1-888 number of the back of the card worked! Seems these things do work, but require a bit of trial and error the first time.

 

Perhaps someone else here has successfully used an AT&T prepaid card, or another US card, from Nassau...