Telephones in St. Lucia

The area code for St. Lucia is 758. You can make direct-dial overseas and inter-island calls from St. Lucia, and the connections are excellent. You can charge an overseas call to a major credit card with no surcharge. From public phones and many hotels, dial 811 and charge the call to your credit card to avoid expensive rates or hotel surcharges. Phone cards can be purchased at many retail outlets and used from any touch-tone telephone (including pay phones) in St. Lucia. You can dial local calls throughout St. Lucia directly from your hotel room by connecting to an outside line and dialing the seven-digit number. Some hotels charge a small fee (usually about EC50¢) for local calls. Pay phones accept EC25¢ and EC$1 coins. Phone cards can be used for local calls, as well as for international calls.

Cell phones may be rented from Cable & Wireless offices in Castries, Gablewoods Mall, Rodney Bay Marina, and Vieux Fort; or you can purchase a local SIM card for $20 (which includes an $8 call credit) at Digicel offices in those same areas. The cards can be topped up at hundreds of business locations around the island.

Information

AT&T (800/872-2881). Cable & Wireless (758/453-9922). Digicel (758/456-3400 or 758/456-3444).