Hi, we haven’t been abroad on a family holiday since pre-brexit. We’ve also now got two teenagers who are glued to their phones. While I’m sure we’ll discourage them a bit, they’ll still use their phones. With all the new charges for roaming, is there a good way to roam while away - or do people go for PAYG sims from the local country?
We’re going to Madeira in this case, but would be interested to hear if there’s any general advice.
If in Europe, if you don’t have included roaming, most MNOs offer roaming add-ons. Outside of Europe, better value is to pick up a local SIM on arrival, and buy a bunch of data. What I do when travelling outside of Europe with family, is that I take a mobile hotspot and put a local SIM into that, and then allow the rest of the family to connect to that. The advantage of this is that you control the connection - everybody else has their phones set to no roaming (and therefore no risk of uncontrolled cost), and you can topup as required. I have a NetGear AirCard - has a swappable battery so you can keep one spare fully charged.
This seems like a very sensible solution, can’t be dealing with four roaming arrangements!