Aruba Surf Club Wi-Fi

[buzzy]

Get a travel router and plug into the wired Internet in the villa. Then log into the wifi that the router will provide with your iPhone. Now you can use Skype to make free or cheap calls. remember that Skype is only free to another Skype user but if you load some money into your Skype account you can all non-skype phone numbers for a very small cost.

For employees needing to call you then get them set up with Skype accounts at work and then they can call you for free.

Remember this only works when you are connected to the WiFi so if you are away from the router's range then you will not be connected.

Thanks! That should work for the employees but we can't really ask customers calling in to do the same. I would assume that we would get charged for all incoming calls if they leave a message. We have to figure out a way to run a business out of the country without it costing a fortune. Unless we just use the phones in our rooms, there is not a way around it...

 

[MALC9990]

Thanks! That should work for the employees but we can't really ask customers calling in to do the same. I would assume that we would get charged for all incoming calls if they leave a message. We have to figure out a way to run a business out of the country without it costing a fortune. Unless we just use the phones in our rooms, there is not a way around it...

I guess you either take a hit on the incomming calls or divert your calls to an answer service and then use skype to call in to collect your messages and then call the customers back.

Alternatively use your employees as the customer interface while you are on vacation and yopu deal with the problems they have via eMail and Skype. After all you are on vacation.

 

[BarbS]

If the employees have Skype on their computers, they can purchase Skype minutes for a very low price and use them to call any phone number, including the number to your room in Aruba. That's what my husband did the last time I was in Aruba and he was at home. He did the same thing when we were staying in Spain when he needed to talk to the office back home. It won't be free to do it that way, like a Skype to Skype call would be, but it's a very inexpensive alternative.

 

[buzzy]

I guess you either take a hit on the incomming calls or divert your calls to an answer service and then use skype to call in to collect your messages and then call the customers back.

Alternatively use your employees as the customer interface while you are on vacation and yopu deal with the problems they have via eMail and Skype. After all you are on vacation.

good suggestions..thanks!.I would love to take a real vacation....it is the price we pay for being a small business owner...

 

[buzzy]

If the employees have Skype on their computers, they can purchase Skype minutes for a very low price and use them to call any phone number, including the number to your room in Aruba. That's what my husband did the last time I was in Aruba and he was at home. He did the same thing when we were staying in Spain when he needed to talk to the office back home. It won't be free to do it that way, like a Skype to Skype call would be, but it's a very inexpensive alternative.

thank you!

 

[Mr. Vker]

My apologies for not being tech savvy, but we are self employed and are going to Aruba next year. We need the cheapest way to communicate to our employees who will call us a million times. We have Iphones and our carrier is ATT. When you get a travel router, do you still set up an international plan with ATT?

WITHOUT A DOUBT, i recommend a Magicjack and a cheap phone. Plugs right into a USB the phone plugs into the Magicjack. Hardware is about $60 including phone. $19/year for service. Unlimited calls from Magicjack to the US and back. Voicemails are received as audiofiles and sent to email. You get a specific number. I work in sales and have used mine all over the world to keep in touch with clients.

 

[ilene13]

I have an unlocked blackberry with a Setar sim card. It is very inexpensive and I can add more minutes via the Internet. We go to Aruba for two weeks annually and my husband must stay in contact with his medical office. It works great.

 

[MALC9990]

Hi, just wondering - do you use Apple's own Airport Express or did you go for a different travel router?

I use an ASUS Portable Wireless Access Point. Model WL-330gE

However, I am running out of places to use it since almost every Marriott Hotel and MVCI Resort seem to be WiFi everywhere.

At Son Antem they issue WiFi codes on a card when you check in and are happy to give you as many as you need - you need one for every device which can be quite a lot when you have 2 laptops, an iPad, two iPhones and a Kindle - between just 2 of us.

I did use it in Phuket Beach Club because whilst there was WiFi in the Villa, the signal was poor and the Ethernet cable gave a better service when I plugged the Portable Wireless Access point into it. At Phuket Beach Club, there were issues about continually having to register the device since access was based upon the Villa Number and the name of the checked in party. Using multiple devices seemed to confuse it whereas using the Access Point seemed to overcome this since each device was identified to the Access Point.

We are off to Cypress Harbour in October so it will get a try out there if we have issues with the WiFi since we will have 6 devices with us again.

 

[caterina25]

My whole family goes to Aruba together.What is the best way communicate with each other at the Surf Club.I have a iphone 4S.