0870 from mobile

taffytim22

Hi

For the next few days my girlfriend will be staying in the Castleford Premier Inn, Her mobile has died and the phone cards that she bought to use from her room do not allow her to dial a mobile and i do not have a landline.

Therefore i am calling her, but i have to call her reception through the 0870 number and Im sure that my Vodafone bill will be huge by the end of the week if we have our normal length conversations.

What are my alternatives? I have looked on saynoto0870 and I havent been lucky in finding the correct hotel.

Thanks
Tim

Mac2308

Have you tried phoning the 0870 number and asking for the local number??

McKneff

seems a sensible thing to do Mac

Someone will probably find it for you now anyway

taffytim22

Mac2308 wrote: »

Have you tried phoning the 0870 number and asking for the local number??

That does sound like the simple solution, and I cant say that i have asked them directly.

I phoned the wrong Castleford Prem Inn and the girl there gave me the number for this one. I did ask her for the local number, but she couldn't understand what i meant!!

My girl friend has also said she will try and ask at reception for this number.

But if she is unsuccessful then I will give that a go tomorrow.


More money saving ways are needed, please keep them coming.

Tim

McKneff

Tell the receptionis that you are ringing from a telephone box and that your
own phone bars 0870 numbers, that one usually works

matrix999

What the full address for the premier inn.... Have located a few 01 numbers but not sure what one relates to the hotel

Try this one if the address is correct:

Castleford Premier Lodge

01977 665400

Commerce Park, Castleford, WF10 5TG

[Deleted User]

you could sign up to Skype and get a £1.99/month incoming landline number, then get her to call that?

taffytim22

matrix999 wrote: »

What the full address for the premier inn.... Have located a few 01 numbers but not sure what one relates to the hotel

Try this one if the address is correct:

Castleford Premier Lodge

01977 665400

Commerce Park, Castleford, WF10 5TG

yes thats the right post code for where she is staying, but no one is answering the phone number given right now. I'll try it again later though.

Thanks
Tim

taffytim22

billbennett wrote: »

you could sign up to Skype and get a £1.99/month incoming landline number, then get her to call that?

Good plan, and im looking into that for the future, but i have no headset right now so its not an option right now.

Good idea though, thanks
Tim

redux

taffytim22 wrote: »

Top man, this sounds ideal.

Is there a 12 month contract?? or is it a pay as you go type of service?

Thanks
Tim

Rather strangely, that website doesn't seem to actually give the tariff for 0870 calls

There are plenty of similar services. See the MSE Callchecker for details, and concentrate on the ones with ordinary landline access.

I'd suggest a 18185 account, which you can set up to use from either a landline or a mobile, pay slightly in arrears as you use it (by direct debit, or debit or credit card, and they don't bill you for a few months when you're hardly using it)

redux

frumball wrote: »

The one I posted
have no 'time-related' contracts, not a pre-paid service, they bill postpaid, theres no comitment to use & rates (as emailed to me) are:

They can email you all they like, but they don't have the 0870 rates published on the site, which is what I said.

As some of their other rates (e.g. int'l calls) are 5 times or more higher than competitors, I think it's worth also looking at others in the MSE Callchecker, which is what I also said.