This year Keith and I used Rogers travel plan. It was $70 for 30 days. It meant no switching sims or using esims. We used our phones just like we do at home. Same data plan, same phone number. It was seamless. My girlfriend with Bell recommended it as she used it in Ireland. We have a ridiculous 180 GB of data shared between the two of us so we’re never in danger of running out of data. For reference we pay $38.50 each plus taxes for our plan. We got a good Boxing Day deal last year. We did both have to buy two consecutive plans as we were gone 52 days. My theory is that Canadian providers have been getting killed by eSIMs and had to provide something to compete. One of the things we really appreciated was having our own numbers for two factor authentication texts.
We are both currently with Koodo (completely separate plans) and when I first heard about the Rogers travel deal, possibly mentioned in your journal, I looked into it. I’m not willing to switch to lesser coverage in BC, though.
I think some sort of bot has made it into Cycleblaze and reactivated this forum (see the message before yours).
I started this post before my trip to France in 2019 but it got reanimated by someone else this year.
I’m now looking to get an e-SIM for Italy. We use our phones while travelling mostly for online research and navigation if needed and really like our own iPhones for that. It’s too challenging to make a voice call in a foreign language (I might attempt it in French but not Italian or Spanish)! E-SIMs are nice because you don’t have to worry about losing your home SIM card. We used Orange Spain last fall (with e-SIM) and it worked really well.
3 years ago