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Also if you are using an iPhone and only want to call the albergue in question, you can do that via WhatsApp without inputting the country code and number. So say you see a number on webpage if you hold down and long press the phone number a drop-down menu pops up allowing you to call them...
At one albergue in the Meseta the price difference was 15 euros via booking.com vs 10 in cash. Never used it again, many albergue owners seem to despise booking.com more than customers do, and I hate booking.com from prior bad experiences personally.
I was comparing messaging apps—until recently FB messenger was the most popular messaging app in the USA but WhatsApp is gaining and is the most popular download apparently now. But comparing sms to a messaging app is like comparing the telegraph to the telephone. SMS is not secure often charges...
https://mashable.com/article/obsessed-with-whatsapp
The other HUGE benefit of using WhatsApp is that your number stays the same for others no matter what sim you are actually using. So if you are going through multiple counties, say France, Spain and Portugal, you can buy a local sim anywhere...
WhatsApp is the most popular texting app in the world. The only place it is not is the US where Facebook messenger is the most popular messaging. They are both owned by the same company but WhatsApp is extremely secure as it is based on Signal’s end to end encryption platform. So if you meet...
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