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International calls for 1p per minute
You can now call more destinations for only 1p per minute. Mootel has now reduced call rates to 15 destinations.
You can now call all these countries for only 1p per minute.
Dial 0844 862 9910 then your international number in full. You will only be charged 1p per minute and your call provider will bill you as normal.
For instant dial instructions please Instant Dial.
Check our rates on international dialling rates on Facebook.
Cheap calls for Diwali
Diwali is upon us again and Mootel would like to tell you about great ways to make cheap international calls to friends and family abroad.
You can call India using any of these great services and save a fortune on your landline bill.
1) Dial 0844 831 9910 (2p per minute)
2) Dial your international number
1) Text MOO to 80077 for a £5 ‘phone card’ This will get you 333 minutes at 2p per minute!
2) Dial 0208 497 1007 or 0800 619 1007 from your mobile phone
3) Dial your international number (don’t press send or green key again)
For more ways to make cheap calls to India.
Thank you for making 2010 another great year for Mootel.
We hope you enjoy Diwali and that these fantastic rates to India helps you keep in touch with your family and loved ones.
Betsy and the Mootel team
Win a FujiFilm FinePix AV100 Digital Camera
Stand the chance to win a FujiFilm FinePix AV100 Digital Camera simply by saving money on your international calls.
Betsy from Mootel has joined Facebook and Twitter and to celebrate we are offering all customers who use any one of Mootel’s services a chance to win a fantastic digital camera worth over £70.
The competition will be held quarterly so you stand a greater chance of winning.
Why not repost this on Facebook or tweet on Twitter?
To enter visit the Mootel site and enter your name, email address and the number from which you used our service. (You don’t need to use our service straight away but have until the end of December to use it – just remember to use the service from the same number!)
Our Promise – we will never share your details with any third party company or individual.
Competition Rules
1) Entry open to UK residents only, excluding anyone professionally linked with Mootel.
2) To enter the competition you simply need to complete some personal details, use any one of Mootel’s services and press the submit button. No details will be supplied to 3rd parties.
3) Mootel’s services constitute:
- Use of our Instant Dial service (over 5 minutes in duration)
- Top up of your mobile phone by Text & Talk (£1.50, £3, £5 or £10 Top Up)
- Top up of your mobile phone by PayPal (£5, £10 or £20)
4) The competition is held quarterly with the winner announced at the end of March, June, September and December.
5) No cash alternative is available
6) The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
7) By entering this competition you agree to be bound by its terms and conditions.
8 ) Automated entries will NOT be accepted and if suspected will be deleted.
Enter now at www.mootel.co.uk
Interested in competitions? Try ThePrizeFinder.com – home of competitions and prize winning
Brit Speak for Americans in the UK
New to the UK from America? You will probably intrigued by the language of British people. We have compiled a list of common Brit words to help you better understand your Brit counterparts.
| Ace – Used to describe something good. ”Beckham’s goal was ace!” |
Aubergine – Eggplant.
Blag - To lie or embellish the truth to get something for nothing. ‘She blagged her way into the nightclub by convincing the bouncers that she was famous.’
Chuffed – If you are chuffed, you are happy with something. ‘I was chuffed for passing my Physics exam’
Dishy – A man who is sexy can be described as dishy. Reference to ‘quite a dish’.
Gobsmacked – Incredibly amazed. Your gob is the same as your mouth and if you smack your gob, it would be out of amazement.
Gutted – Not happy because of an event that has occured which didn’t go your way. ‘Gunter was gutted to learn that his favorite sports team didn’t make the finals.’
Knackered – Same as tired. You could also use the word ‘shattered’ for tired.
Luvvly-jubbly – Just another way of saying ‘lovely’.
Nick – Means ‘steal’. ‘He nicked a mobile phone from the table!’
Pull – Means picking someone up. If you are “on the pull”, you are scouting for a mate.
PTO – This is an abbreviation for “please turn over”. Sometimes used in letter writing if the letter extends to the other side of the paper.
Scrummy – When something is scrummy, it is delicious. Shortened from scumptious.
Skint – Broke. ‘It is the beginning of the month and I am already skint.’
Skive – To skive is to avoid something. ‘I skived off work the other day’.
Slapper – A slapper is a female who is a bit loose. US equivalent = ‘ho’.
Stonking – Means huge. ‘I had a stonking headache this morning after drinking too much wine!’
Sweeney – Another word for the Police.
Tosser or Tosspot- Not a nice expression. Usually used referring to a male who is a jerk.
Totty – A sexy person. Usually used in reference to girls. Men can be described as ‘dishy’.
Suss – If you heard someone saying they had you sussed they would mean that they had you figured out! If you were going to suss out something it would mean the same thing.
Wally - Idiot. Jerk.
Whinge – To whine or complain.
Wicked – Excellent, outstanding, awesome, great.
Wonky - Not quite right. Something a little bit off about it.
Y’alright? - Typical greeting used by the English. Shortened form of ‘Are you alright?’. Liken it to ‘How are ya?’ as a typical American greeting.
Keep in touch for family and friends in USA.
Call USA from only 1p per minute.
Simply dial 0844 862 9910 then 001 + your US number in full. This will cost you only 1p per minute.
Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers on Sunday 14th March 2010.
For those that need to call abroad you can speak for longer use our cheap access numbers.
Mexican Cops Told to Ditch the Tortillas
Mexico City’s police department has introduced a new lower-calorie menu in cafeterias serving its 70,000-member force after finding out that almost 3/4 of officers are overweight.
A diet of fizzy drinks, tortillas and sweets is weighing down crime fighters and leaving criminals on the run.
Authorities in Aguascalientes want to offer 100 pesos ($9) for every kilo shed by their portly policemen.
About a 1/4 of the city’s 1600-strong force are reported to be overweight.
“We do have some fat officers. We have been encouraging them for a while to lose weight, to be more agile, to do sport,” a police spokesman told Reuters.
Need to phone Mexico from the UK?
1) Instant Dial Landline
Dial 0871 518 9910 then dial the Mexican landline number in full. (6p per minute)
2.) Instant Dial Mobile
Dial 0871 919 9910 then dial the Mexican mobile number in full. (10p per minute)
3.) Text & Talk – talk from your mobile (8p per minute)
Text MOO to 80556 for a £5 top up.
Dial 0208 497 1007 or 0800 619 1007
4.) PayPal (8p per minute)
Top Up phone by paying by PayPal
Dial access number 0208 497 8787 or 0800 619 8797
Commonwealth Day 2010
Celebrate Commonwealth Day on 8th March 2010. 
Commonwealth Day is the annual celebration of the Commonwealth of Nations held and is marked by a multi-faith service in Westminster Abbey, normally attended by Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth, with the Commonwealth Secretary-General and Commonwealth High Commissioners in London.
Mootel is proud to have some of the lowest rates to Commonwealth countries so it is now even easier for those living in the UK to phone friends and family abroad.
Check out our cheap call rates to the following Commonwealth Countries:
Best Way to Save on Phone Bill
The best way to save on your phone bill is to ditch phoning abroad direct with your telephone provider. BT charges exorbitant rates to international destinations. You can call overseas now from only 1p per minute.
All you need to do is find the access number for your destination and then call that number then your international number in full. You will be connected and will only pay that rate per minute instead of the BT rate per minute. BT will then charge you at the reduced rate and this will be payable to BT all your call provider. No need to sign up for the service or get out your credit card.
After dialling the access number the voice prompt will inform you of the rate per minute so you will be aware of the actual cost of the call per minute. The rate also includes VAT.
Lets compare some BT rates with Mootel rates.
To phone Germany will cost you 20.5p/minute during the daytime and 11.2p/minute during evenings and weekends. Calls to Germany mobiles will cost you 45p/minute during the daytime and 35.7p during evenings and weekends.
Calling Germany using Mootel’s access numbers are:
To call Germany Landline from the UK. Cost is 1p per minute. Dial 0844 862 9910 then 0049 + destination number.
To call Germany Mobile from the UK. Cost is 10p per minute. Dial 0871 919 9910 then 0049 + destination number.
Clearly using cheap access numbers is one of the best ways to save on your phone bill.
Check out Mootel to save on your phone bill.
Telediscount vs Mootel
Someone asked me the other day whether Telediscount has the cheapest access numbers rates for international calls.
I decided to do a quick check. I took 5 very popular destinations and the results were rather surprising. Of the 5 countries I chose all 5 were considerably cheap with Mootel’s access numbers than Telediscount’s access numbers.

Some years ago I used Telediscount’s access numbers to call South Africa, at one stage they were 2p to call South Africa. Everyone I knew were using them because it was so cheap. After a few weeks the rate went to 3p then to 4p and the quality of the line was very poor – but who cared since it was so cheap? This I have since heard is a recurring occurance with Telediscount.
Back to those 5 countries.
Telediscount: 4p/min (landline), 15p/min (mobile)
Mootel: 3p/min (landline), 9p/min (mobile)
Telediscount: 10p/min (landline), 7p/min (mobile)
Mootel: 2p/min (landline), 2p/min (mobile)
Telediscount: 10p/min (landline), 10p/min (mobile)
Mootel: 5p/min (landline), 5p/min (mobile)
Telediscount: 10p/min (landline), 10p/min (mobile)
Mootel: 7p/min (landline), 7p/min (mobile)
Telediscount: 2p/min (landline), 2p/min (mobile)
Mootel: 1p/min (landline), 1p/min (mobile)
5 very popular destinations that Mootel’s access numbers outperform Telediscount on price and call quality.
For more destinations for cheap international calls visit www.mootel.co.uk
Cheap International Calling
Looking for Cheap International Calling?
Mootel has one of the cheapest low rate access numbers to call from your UK landline phone.
Instant Dial is a cheap international calling service which allows you to make cheap international phone calls from a landline instantly.
All you need to do is dial the low rate access number for the country you want to call then, at the prompt, dial your destination number.
Your service provider will charge you only for the call to the Instant Dial access number, rather than charging the full international rate for the call.
1. Dial the Access Number for your country. E.g. For South Africa 0844 988 9910
2. Dial the international number in full. E.g. For South Africa 00 + 27 + Area Code + Telephone Number
The Advantages of using the Instant Dial Access Numbers
- No pre-payment, PIN or calling card needed
- Your provider will bill you as usual
- No subscription or hidden costs
- Tariff played before each call
- All prices include VAT
- No bills from Mootel
- No need for prepaid calling cards



