Keeping in Touch

Email and Internet

Email facilities are available in most hotels and many have internet connections in the rooms. Internet cafes are plentiful and inexpensive in China.

Telephone

Phone booths are commonly available in major cities but rare in rural areas or in the far west.  Cellular phones from other countries work in China. These calls can be expensive so it would be wise to talk to you local provider before leaving your home country. Hotel phones can be very expensive.

International phone calls can be made from most hotels but please be aware that that the call rates may be expensive.

Many mobile phones have global roaming which will allow calls to be made as if you are at home. Please check your phone service provider to obtain call rates. Yangtze River cruises use satellite phone for communications.

Internal call: to make an international call from China please use the following procedure:-

• e.g. to dial USA      00 (to get an international line) 1 (country code)
  (then area code without any zeros)(then ph number)
                            00       1    215  999 9999

• To Britain            00       44   66   333 3333

Domestic calls    114 or 12580