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Keeping in touch with home

Planning your gap year travels? Keeping in touch with the folks may well be the last thing on your mind! But to maintain peace and harmony at home, the occasional call is essential. The ability to contact home urgently in times of need is also important.

Calling home can be expensive or awkward. Hotels make call surcharges, pay as you go mobile roaming is extortionate and local payphones may require exact local coinage or a locally purchased card.

But we might just have the answer... Gapyear.com in partnership with Redstone telecom are please to offer online, the next generation of phonecard. Open an account from only £10 (£20 and you get an extra 20% free) and start saving money today.

You can opt for an automatic top-up scheme or you or your parents could recharge by credit card 24/7.

Savings are impressive, for example Vodafone’s ‘pay as you go’ customers are charged £0.79 per minute to call from Australia to the UK, Redstone charges £0.27 per minute; and £1.25 per minute to call from USA to UK, Redstone charges £0.16p per minute.

All prompts are in English and the service is usable from most touch-tone phones in over 20 countries. The service is well tried and tested with around two million calls per year.

Benefits of these phonecards

- Great value compared to UK prepaid mobile roaming rates
- Calls from over 20 countries to any other country
- Easy to follow prompts in English
- Easy to understand tariff with no connection charges or maintenance fees
- 24/7 access to recharge or view your account online
- Works from all tone phones
- Option to use from domestic phones, hotel phones or public payphones

Click here >> to find out more about these phonecards or to buy one online.