Kaunas Tourist Trap Tips by satara Top 5 Page for this destination

Buying public payphone cards

I know it's 99% probability that you will bring your mobile phone coming to Kaunas but still sometimes you might need to use public payphone. They work with special cards which you can get in every post-office, grocery shop or press-stands ("spaudos kioskas") which you can find very easy in every street in the center. Usually phone cards have 25, 50, 100, 200 time units and that doesn't mean you have to pay such amount of money !!!

Unique Suggestions: One Belgian international exchange student I was tutoring bought 50 time units card and left to the shopkeeper 50 litas!!! That means he overpaid about 5 times more. I think he just didn't wait for the change, but he thought Lithuanians are big cheaters! So to avoid such misunderstandings read the price first or ask the shopkeeper.

Can I get a room overnight here?

Kaunas has many hotels and the price is almost similar like in other European capitals, so quite expensive. There's a lack of low-budget hotels, like youth hostel (which was opened only this year!). So please be careful when you read on the map "student hostel" which are regular Kaunas university students dorms and not the youth hostels for tourist. You won't get a bed there.

Unique Suggestions: I live in one of such student hostels and one late night coming home I met that Polish guy who was biking across Lithuania and tried to get a room in my hostel. I don't know what happened to him afterwards because when I tried to explain him about some pricey hotels in downtown his eyes became wider and wider...