Telephone communication on Saipan
Contact relatives and close during holidays on the island, tourists will be able to means of international relations available from stationary and mobile phones. If you wish, vacationers can purchase a local telecommunication operator that is sold in the store on Beach Road near the Mobil refueling or in any island's shopping center. You can also make a call from telephones installed in stores and on Saipan's streets. You will need a telephone card that you can buy in any nearby store for $ 5.
I do not advise you to use the hotel phones, calls from them will cost travelers very expensive. It is better to rent a local cell phone with a beneficial package favorable. Some of them allow cheap to contact Russia from 5 to 50 minutes a day.
Island transport or rented car
For a deeper study of the island, tourists will need a car. The fact is that the movement on Walking on Saipan is a tedious and ungrateful matter due to the uneven embossed surface of the island. However, in some situations, travelers may well do with the services Local bus By running on two separate routes. Both of them pass along the line of hotels and reaching the Duty Friend's Island Store, buses start moving in the opposite direction. One bus runs from the northern coast to the center of the island, and the second, respectively, from the south side to the place of concentration of tourist life. The passage on this type of transport is completely free. Therefore, vacationers can use the services as much as you like, in order to get to the hotel beach or an interested café, restaurant.
As for an independent cognitive excursion or a walk through the island, then there will be a taxi to help tourists, or a car rental. Moreover, rent a car on Saipan will not be any difficulty. Firms dealing with such activities on the island is sufficient. It is best to contact well-known companies, such as Avis, Herz or Toyota, but also small branches of less popular agencies provide high-quality services. The only inconvenience with which tourists may encounter, contacting the small rolling office - this is the lack of the desired car. But even in this case, rental employees will try to choose the most appropriate transportation and wishes of tourists transport and deliver go straight to the hotel's threshold.
- The cost of renting a car directly will depend on its class and rental duration. So, for the all-wheel drive jeep, vacationers will have to lay out from 110 dollars per day. And this is an option, if it should be honest, it turns out to be the most suitable for steep and sometimes the island's imparense roads. While the daily rental of Mazda 2 will turn out only 65 dollars. The most budget rental option will cost travelers $ 50 per day.
True, some companies make it possible to rent a car just six hours or half a day. In any case, the car is provided with tourists with full tank and in its pure form. In the same state, it must be returned back. I do not advise travelers to give the car with the missing fuel in the tank. This will turn into extra spending, because for gasoline consumption it will be necessary to pay extra at an inflated price. And yet, making the car rental, you should not buy hollow insurance. It will be enough to insure the vehicle, because the life of tourists, as a rule, is insured when traveling abroad. But the presence of a children's chair in the car, which will be used by tourists with the kids, in Saipan is mandatory. The rental price of this additional equipment in different firms is different, but on average it is 15 dollars.
- Find one of the car rental companies on Saipan, tourists can at: intersection Airport Road and Tapochau Road. In addition, on the issue of renting a car, you can always contact the Russian-speaking staff of the hotel, in which tourists will stop.
It is worth noting that some companies with long-term car rental (week and more) give tourists with a pleasant bonus in the form of one free day. This is undoubtedly a trifle, but still nice.
As for the rules of the road on the island, they are quite understandable. Car movement is familiar for Russian tourists - right-sided and calm, permissible speed not more than 35 miles per hour. From documents, drivers are enough to have a driver's license.
If tourists still have to use a taxi service, then you should be ready to give at least $ 15 for a short trip.
Medical assistance in Saipan
If tourists are resting during the island, God will feel unreasoning, then for help you can contact one of the private clinics of Saipan or the Commonwealth hospital. Moreover, consultation with the doctors of the hospital, as in the private clinic, will be paid. The difference will be the only cost of reception. In the hospital, vacationers can hold at least half a day and leave about $ 70 at the same time. This amount will be included in addition to the cost of receptions, the costs of the necessary medical preparations necessary for the treatment. According to the island rules, the Commonwealth hospital provides assistance to all those in need, and the issue of payment is made only after the provision of all services.
- Works clinic from Monday to Friday from 7:30 to 16:00.
A consultation in a private clinic will turn out to travelers by 10-15 dollars more expensive, but the reception process will be far faster, and the cost of drugs will also be included. It should be noted that all Saipan's medical institutions are modernly equipped. And regardless of the presence of insurance, tourists will have to pay their services. When an insured event occurs, it will be necessary to call the number indicated in the insurance, and then all the costs of treatment will be compensated for tourists.
If the problems with health are minor and tourists know perfectly well what medicine will help them, and refrain to the doctor refrain, it will be enough to accept pills or medicines brought with them. With their absence, vacationers can visit one of the five pharmacies of the island or look into the nearby store, where painkillers and antipyretic means are always available (Tylenol, Vix Active), released without a recipe.