Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The main pay-as-you-go mobile providers:
Djuice
(
www.djuice.com.ua
)
Life:)
(
www.life.ua
)
MTC
(
www.mts.com.ua
)
Public Phones
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Public phones on the street can be used for local calls only.
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Most require a phonecard, sold at post and telephone offices.
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Phones in each city require a different brand of card.
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Using a Utel card phone is another way to make international and national calls.
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Cards can be purchased at post offices.
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The cards have printed instructions in English.
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Only Utel phones can be used to make calls with these cards.
Time
Ukraine is located in one time zone - GMT plus two hours. During daylight-saving time,
from the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October, it's GMT plus three hours.
When it's noon in Kyiv, it's 5am in New York, 10am in London, 11am in Paris, 1pm in
Moscow and 8pm in Sydney.
Ukraine generally uses the 24-hour clock (for instance, 8pm is 20:00).
Toilets
A women's toilet
(tualet)
is marked with an upwards-facing triangle or (for
zhinochy
);
men's are marked with a downwards facing triangle, or (for
cholovichy
or
muzhcheny
).
CALL OF NATURE
There's a Ukrainian saying: 'Where's the toilet? The toilet is everywhere!' When you
see some of the public toilets, you'll understand why. To be fair, vile, stinky, clogged
holes with foot markers on either side are far less common than they once were,
