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Old Aug 5, 1999 | 12:47 am
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Dial arounds in hotels?

Has anyone here tried to use a dial around telephone access code from a hotel?

Are these blocked?

If not, how would the biling work?

If these worked, assuming the hotel guest is billed the standard dial around rate, this would provide a major savings ober standard hotel Long distance charges
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Old Aug 5, 1999 | 5:11 am
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Boomer, Good question. I have never tried it, but I suspect the "10-10-XXX" codes are either blocked or would revert to the Hotel LD charge scheme. This would be interesting to try.
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Old Aug 5, 1999 | 11:50 am
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I'm tempted to try, but not knowing what the charge would be I'm cautious.
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Old Aug 5, 1999 | 3:08 pm
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I don't think you'd need to complete the call to find out. If the 10-10-xxx lets you dial a LD number, hang up if it starts to ring.
If you get a recording or message then it probably won't work.
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Old Aug 6, 1999 | 7:11 am
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Even if it did work, I don't know what your motivation would be. Hotel LD billing systems are completely seperate from the telephone company's. You'd still be billed at the regular rate, even if the dial-around worked. Of course the possibility of the system recognizing the call as local and not billing it exists...
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