Your cellphone (pick one
): poor reception, needs charging, forgot to bring it--so you need to use some other phone.
I've been to hotels where toll free/local calls generally run $1.50/30 minutes + $0.10/min excess. For a few hotels I've stayed in toll free from "house phones" are FREE.
Long distance is when you get ZAPPED: $16/minute...
Payphone are now "dinosaurs", but can still be handy!