Can I use my cell phone?
Can I use my cell phone?
- To enable you to make phone calls during your stay in Costa Rica, we highly recommend that you bring an unlocked phone and purchase a SIM card at the ICE or Kolbi desk at the airport, or at the Kolbi office in Uvita next to The Dome Plaza. If your phone won’t work in Costa Rica, you might want to consider buying or borrowing an inexpensive flip phone and putting a local SIM card.
- Unless you call the States often, you won’t need much on the card and they are easily rechargeable in Uvita.
- To dial out from Costa Rica to another country, dial the three digit country code (001 for the US), then the phone number xxx xxx xxxx.
- To dial Costa Rica from the US, dial the three digit country code (011), then the phone number 506 xxxx xxxx.
- WhatsApp is a free smartphone app that works very well in our area and allows voice mail, photo/video and phone calls and usually has better connection than email and phone calls.
- WAZE is a free app that works very well in our area for providing directions, road alerts and rerouting to avoid traffic and accidents.