How do you get reservation without a telephone?
I guess this is one of the problems while travelling in Japan (at least this has been the major problem I have). When you make resevation, you have to give some tel for contact. I have only Cell phone and certainly hate giving it to people I don’t know, but often I’ve been on the verge of refusal ( Soreha ne…E, doushimashou…If you don’t have telephone, chotto…). But I live in Japan. I was wondering what happens with the tourists who come and rely mostly on tel cards.Pls share your experienses and advises how to get reservation without giving your personal tel.
JB gave good answer and I really don’t understand the trolls who gave him 6 TD. I’d like to encourage order prescription drugs without a prescription him to ignore the trolls and to keep the spirit of this answer for further. Thanks everyone who answered so far. I was wondering if the hotel would accept the e-mail of the MP- this I can change anytime later, and still I’ll get the message immediately.
If you do not want to give them the number of your current cell phone, why don’t you try to have the 2nd phone?
Softbank White Plan is only 980 yen a month. If you have enough money to travel across Japan, you must be able to pay only 980 yen every month.
http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/en/price_plan/whiteplan/index.html
You don’t have to pay any more if you did not make any call.
I think tourists are giving their home phone numbers in their country.
Sorry, I don’t know what else you can do besides giving a fake number or a friends number! Or even tell them you don’t have a phone? I mean, what can they do? Surely they don’t want to refuse your business just because you don’t give a tele? I assume you speak japanese pretty well…but of course the usual tourist doesn’t….I think that’s why they can get away without having a telephone number.
Personally, I will give out my cell phone number, but never my home land line number……
Just be honest. Tell them you don’t want to give it to them. You can speak Japanese well so just say it. Give them your name and the dates and that is it. It is worth a try. Giving my phone # never bothered me so I always gave it. I don’t have any experiences without giving a #. I think you should be honest.
I think giving a number is more for your benefit than for the hotel’s. If you have made a reservation beforehand they’d call you if you didn’t check in in time; hopefully your reservation wouldn’t get cancelled if you were running late (therefore it is better to give them your cell number, but actually if you are running late you should call them, not vice versa.)
Ryokan and minshuku also will call you before or during your stay since sometimes guests are running late for dinner. . .
After you check out the number is also on record for your benefit. The staff check over your room before you leave, so if you were to trash it or steal something, they’d already know.
On the other hand, if you left something behind, like under the bed they could contact you easily by phone.
I think giving your work number is okay. For tourists I guess they give their number from their own country! If they were part of a tour group the hotel would contact them through the tour company.
In short, if someone gave a fake number they’d probably be hurting themselves more than they’d be hurting the hotel. The hotel just asks for the # as a courtesy to the guest.
They ask for a phone number for two reasons; to be reasonably sure that you seriously mean to use their service, and to be able to contact you if something happens and they have to cancel it (e.g. you make a reservation at a restaurant and they have a fire in the kitchen.)
In other words, they routinely ask your number but will use it only in emergency, or if you sound extremely suspicious, or its a big reservation (like, a dinner for 20 at $200/head from a first-time customer) and they just want to confirm it a few days in advance.
I never had a business call me back to confirm reservation. They know to do so without a reason would annoy the customer. I think you should give your cell phone # unless you have reasons to suspect that they might abuse it.
they need phone no because some people dont show up after reservation.
they have to keep room and prepare dinner for you.
if you dont show up they cant do anything about it without phone no. they do nothing with phone no. too. but its kinda notice that they have phone no. and have information about you. there are some people just want to harass them. they know those people too. some managers are professional. they interpret this call is prank or not immediately.
some restaurant are doing same thing too.