Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Communicating
Telephones
Smart travelers use the telephone to reserve or reconfirm rooms, get tourist information,
reserve restaurants, confirm tour times, or phone home. This section covers dialing in-
structions, phone cards, and types of phones you'll encounter (for more in-depth informa-
tion, see www.ricksteves.com/phoning ) .
How to Dial
Calling from the US to Ireland, or vice versa, is simple—once you break the code. The
European calling chart later in this chapter will walk you through it.
Dialing Domestically Within Ireland
The following instructions apply whether you're dialing from a landline (such as a pay
phone or your hotel-room phone) or an Irish mobile phone.
Ireland, like much ofthe US,usesanarea-code dialing system. Tomake domestic calls,
if you're dialing from within an area code, you just dial the local number to be connec-
ted; but if you're calling from outside an area code, you have to dial both the area code
(which starts with a 0) and the local number. For example, to call the recommended Hard-
ing Hotel in Dublin within Dublin, you'd dial 679-6500. To call it from Galway, you'd dial
01-679-6500.
Area codes are listed in this topic, and are available from directory assistance (dial
11811 in the Republic, 192 in Northern Ireland).
The Republic of Ireland has a special way to call Northern Ireland: dial 048, and then
the local number without the area code. For instructions on how to call the Republic of
Ireland from Northern Ireland, see below.
If you're dialing within Ireland using your US mobile phone, you may need to dial as
if you're making a domestic call, or you may need to dial as if you're calling from the
US (see “Dialing Internationally,” next). Try it one way, and if that doesn't work, try it the
other way.
Dialing Internationally to or from Ireland
To make an international call, follow these steps:
• Dial the international access code (00 if you're calling from Europe, 011 from the US
or Canada). If you're dialing from a mobile phone, you can replace the international ac-
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