Data Sim

[Shpadoinkleday]

I was also thinking about getting a data sim for our trip next month. My dad got one recently for his trip to San Francisco. $60 for 30 days 1GB data. Seems a bit excessive.

Didn't realise Disney had free WiFi now. Do the other parks have it as well? Universal, Sea World etc.

[shauney]

With the amount of free WiFi that's around you won't need a heap of cellular data. Tru offers data at 20p per MB.

[Guest]

WIFI is totally useable at all the disney parks including sending pictures in emails. The water parks seem a bit patchy. There are a few spots at universal which has wifi, but its not great. The best I found was at the new Harry Potter expansion which im pretty sure isnt for public use

[dpmcalister]

Thanks for the replies

Originally Posted by captain-codeye

This and a unlocked phone is all you need! I have used them many times and the service is faultless.

I can't get a working link! It's mrsimcard and you need the lyca yes plan $39 for 30 days.

Try this and scroll down

mrsimcard/iphone.html

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I've got an Android phone (Google Nexus 4) so the iPhone deals aren't any good unfortunately. The cheapest Android sim on MrSimCard.com is $74.99 for the fortnight.

Originally Posted by Big Dog

With the amount of free wifi available there is no need to try and give yourself the hassle and cost of getting g a data sim

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The problem with free wi-fi is that there is no guarantee of quality of service (or even if you'll get a service). Most places only talk about the Disney parks having free wi-fi but we're not visiting them this time. Most of our holiday will be other parts of Florida that we've not seen before, hence the data requirement. Similarly, I know that I'll need a lot. By way of example, on our UK holiday this year I used almost 5GB of data - and that was just for a single week.

Originally Posted by tommys

bought a Tmobile sim card at florida mall $60 unlimited data,phone calls in the US and unlimited phone calls to land lineS back in the UK

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Will look into the T-Mobile sim as the calls back to the UK might come in handy (last visit I had to call the bank to get my credit card unblocked!)

Thanks again everyone

[wayneg]

We bought this in August. walmart/ip/T-Mobile-SIM-Kit/24099996

Even though we had WiFi in the hotel and in parks my Son got more than enough value out of this, although he did use it for 4 weeks.

For £20 its a bargain, unlimited Data & US texts (4G upto 5gb) 100 mins which were great for making dining reservations.

Walmart staff were excellent, installed & registered the SIM, came out all working after about 15 minutes.

You can add credit online to allow international use, cost us 10cents/text for him to text us on our UK phones.

[lunar01]

just back a week ago. me and DH got red pocket sims from ebay for £2.74.
activated them online and loaded them on line 3 days before we went.
$49.99 got us unlimited UK calls, unlimeted US minutes and texts, UK texts, and 1 GB of data.
so simple to do and we were set up when we landed.
I had a problem with activation with my iphone before elaving but they helped via their live internet chat on the goredpocket sim page.
Although agree with others- next time I wont bother with data. wifi was great in disney.
DH would still have data though.

[PM88]

Just thought I'd add if you are looking at T-mobile for data check your phones frequencies as you'll likely be stuck on edge speeds. T-mobile in the USA operate on a frequency that most international phones and even many US phones don't use. AT&T and their MVNO'S will be your best bert if you are bothered by data speed. Also T-mobile use 1700/2100Mhz but you need both not just the 2100mhz as they use an uplink/downlink system.

[dpmcalister]

It's a Google/LG Nexus 4 which operates GSM/EDGE/GPRS (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz) and 3G (850, 900, 1700, 1900, 2100 MHz) so I should be OK. Good point to bear in mind though

[PM88]

Yep that's perfect. You'll get 3g np. Just always like to let people know with T-mobile to avoid getting stuck with the really slow speeds. Very few phones have the band IV 3g chip they use. PS good phone choice =P

[dpmcalister]

Thanks - I'm a bit of a tech-head myself

Of course, the bonus will be if T-Mobile allow tethering so I can connect my Nexus 10 to the data