Italy Travel And Hotel Guide

Nearly every Italian town has a fax office , but the cost of faxing from these places is usually evenhandedly high: for faxes within Italy, expect to pay at least £5000/¬2.58 for the first page and £2500/¬1.29 for apiece subsequent page, plus the cost of the call; for international faxes it’s about £10,000/¬5.16 for the first and £5000/¬2.58 for subsequent pages, plus the cost of the call. A cheaper, fiddlier alternative is to use one of Telecom Italia’s Pubblifax machines, found in the larger phone offices where you’ll find groups of public telephones; these only charge the cost of the call plus £2000/¬1.03 per page.Internet cafés , often a simple Internet point without café facilities, are now common in cities and even in smaller towns, allowing you to log on for between £10,000/¬5.16 and £15,000/¬7.75 an hour. We’ve detailed options in all the major cities under “Listings”, and most tourist offices will print out a sheet of likely places; otherwise check out www.cyberiacafe.net/cyberia/guide/ccafe.htm for a list of cybercafés. Organizing a free Internet mail address at sites like www.hotmail.com and www.yahoo.com is a handy, reliable way of keeping in contact with home. Travelling with a laptop and a modem enables you to log in to your own service bourgeois - and many wage local-access numbers - but many travellers find this isn’t as glitch-free as it should be. Note that lower-grade hotels tend to have the non-standard chunky Italian four-pin phone-plug whereas more expensive places almost always use the standard US-style RJ11 phone-plug.

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