Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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phone, you can make and receive calls across populated areas around
much of the globe. Just call your wireless operator and ask for “inter-
national roaming” to be activ ated on y our account. A pr epaid Cay-
man Islands SIM card with an international cellphone is a convenient
and economical calling solution during y our visit to the Caymans.
To an incr easing degree, residents of the Cayman I slands—espe-
cially the islands ' corps of taxi and miniv an driv ers—rely on their
cellphones for all manner of communications throughout their work-
ing days. Cellphone r eception, thanks to r elay stations scatter ed
throughout Grand Cayman, is generally v ery good—but some what
less so on Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. Temporary visitors to the
Cayman Islands can buy or r ent a cellphone fr om providers includ-
ing:
Cable & Wireless,
Anderson Square Building on Shedden Road,
and G alleria S hopping M all at S even M ile B each, G eorge Town
(
&
345/949-7800;
www.cw.ky);
Digicel,
Cayman Financial Center,
36A Dr. Roy's Dr., 3rd floor, George Town (
&
345/623-3444;
www.
digicelcayman.com/en/plans); and
Lime,
Anderson S quare Building
on S hedden R oad, and G alleria P laza on West B ay R oad, G eorge
Town (
&
345/949-8450;
www.time4lime.com). R entals ar e about
CI$5 per day, plus the cost of a calling card; international per-minute
rates are around CI35¢ to CI60¢.
An alternative plan is to r ent a cellphone befor e you leave home.
North Americans can r ent one befor e leaving home fr om
InTouch
USA
(
&
800/872-7626;
www .intouchglobal.com) or
Roadpost
(
&
888/290-1616
or 905/272-5665; www.roadpost.com). InTouch
will also, for fr ee, advise y ou on whether y our existing phone will
work overseas; simply call
&
703/222-7161
between 9am and 4pm
EST, or go to
http://intouchglobal.com/travel.htm
.
If y ou hav e Web access while trav eling, y ou might consider a
broadband-based telephone ser vice (in technical terms,
Voice o ver
Internet pr otocol,
or
VoIP
) such as
Skype
(www .skype.com) or
Vonage
(www.vonage.com), which allo ws you to make fr ee interna-
tional calls if you use their services from your laptop or in a cybercafe.
For all the details on restrictions and availability, check their websites
for details.
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INTERNET & E-MAIL
Internet cafes ar e located in the shopping centers along S even Mile
Beach. They include:
Café del S ol/Team C afé,
located in the
Marquee S hopping Centr e and the A qua World D uty F ree M all
(
&
345/946-2233
); and the
Thirsty S urfer,
located at the R eef
Resort in East E nd (
&
345/947-2337
). Rates at the Thirsty Surfer
range from CI$8 for 24-hour unlimited access to CI$50 for 30-day
unlimited access. On Cayman Brac, Internet access is available at the
