It is usually very costly to make a international phone call from a hotel room. Expect your bill to be USD3-8 per minute.

We advise your relatives to call you in the hotel or you can buy a Russian sim card for your GSM phone. All incoming phone calls in the city where you bought your sim card are free of charge. As soon as you leave the city where you bought your card you will have to pay for roaming which might be expensive. Just buy another sim card in the next city.

To call internationally you need to dial 8-10 to get international line, than 1 for US, 44 for UK, than area code and phone number. We appreciate you talking a lot to your relatives helping Russian economy.

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This tip is provided by supplier M08558