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Facilities
The centre provides a comfortable relaxed environment for seafarers visiting the port.
Tea and coffee are continuously available free of charge.
A small bar is also available for soft drinks and alcoholic beverages.
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Telephones
The Centre has 10 phone booths, which will accept most seafarers phone cards.
Mission phone cards are available from the bar for $5 or $10 and provide excellent rates to most countries.
Phone cards may also be purchased from Centre Ship Visitors.
Caution... Phone cards may also be offered for sale to you by others, they may or may not be genuine, please be careful and only buy cards from the Chaplains or Centre Ship Visitors. All Chaplains and Centre Ship Visitors will have clearly marked helmets and safety jackets.
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Internet
The Centre has a small Internet café from which emails can be sent and received. Access to the system will cost £1 GBP for 30 minutes.
Our Internet café uses state of the art equipment, Firewalls, Virus Protection and Broadband technology for fast and reliable connection.
All our computers have floppy disk drives to allow seafarers to bring in their personal correspondence from their ship on a floppy disk for emailing home.
Please note... Internet access from our Internet café to any pornography site is blocked.
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The Chapel
The Centre chapel is always open and available for private prayer. Daily prayers, led by the duty Chaplain, are held in the Chapel at 08:50 Mondays to Fridays.
An Anglican Eucharist is held in the chapel at 10:30 every Sunday. Other services and Masses can be arranged directly with the Chaplains.
Prayer cards and votive candles are available in the chapel.
The Centre Manager can provide details of local Mosques and other places of worship in the City.
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Recreation
Table Tennis, Pool, Bar Football are available as are musical instruments.
The Canberra Room is a quiet non smoking area for those who wish to take advantage of our extensive library which contains books in many languages. All books may be loaned from the Centre free of charge.
Warm knitted hats, scarves and socks are usually available for visiting seafarers, a small donation to the Centres' costs would be appreciated for these goods.
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Foreign Exchange
Limited forex is available from US$ and Euros to Sterling. Exchange rates are usually better than the banks, no commission is charged.
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Bus Transport
The Centre runs a mini bus service to all parts of the dock complex and Fawley during the day from 09:00 and evening until 22:00.
The busses have no fixed itinerary, but will respond by phoning 02380 333106.
(see How to Find Us)
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